I studied at Tainan National Commercial Vocational Senior High School (NTCVS) and majored in foreign languages. Since I was a little girl, I had liked to read other countries’ cultures and histories that was the reason why I chose foreign languages as my major. Recalling the first time when I went to school, I thought learning other countries’ languages would be easy and interesting. However, I was totally wrong. To my surprised, there were so many things to learn such as vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation and so on. We always had to read English magazines. Sometimes, it really drove me crazy particularly when I couldn’t pronounce the sounds like /e/ or /ð/. Nevertheless, my teacher often encourage me told me “Don’t give up so easily, opportunity favors the prepared mind.” One account of these words, I became harder to study English and more positive when I faced difficulties. During the past three years, I really learned a lot. I learned how to use the right grammar to write English articles, how to speak English fluently without stutter and how to pronounce perfectly.
I went to attend the GEPT test and passed the elementary and intermediate levels. I also passed Computer application software certification beginner level(電腦軟體應用丙級). Besides, I attended the English story-telling competition which was held by the school. Due to our teamwork and teacher’s helps, we won the first prize! Though, we didn’t enter the national contest, it was still a good experience.
During the years in NTCVS, I served as the class leader and the vice class leader. On account of these experiences, I learned how to get along well with others and how to deal with things perfectly. Foe example, when I was the class leader in the first years in NTCVS, there was an English song competition. At first, everyone had many opinions; therefore, we made lots of versions. However, their ideas became more and more complex and dissident. Consequently, I tried to do my best to gather everyone’s idea and mixed it. Fortunately, all of my classmates were satisfied with my arrangement. Furthermore, because of our hard-working, we got the second prize and all of us felt happy for it. Owing to this experience, I learn about teamwork and the way to solve the difficult problems. Tough it was tired to be a leader in the class, I was glad to have to serve for my classmates and learn something from it.
Apart from studying and learning, I also joined the clubs. I had joined the ABC club for two years. It was a club about learning English. I usually practiced vocabularies with my club mates and sometimes we would see some English movies or listen to some English songs to improve our English listening and oral skills. We also shared our experiences when we studied English. My English abilities were showing rapidly progress because all people who loved English were in this club and we would not feel embarrassed when we spoke in English. I attended drama club at the last year in NTCVS. For the reason why I joined the drama was that although the abilities in English were important, speaking English fluently and confidently was important, too. Hence, I went to the drama club to train self-confident. We would play many different roles in different dramas and spoke lines in different tones. Most importantly, we had to show our performances on the stage. After all of these trainings, now, I can speak English and do performances on the stage without any frightened or scared.
I really appreciate my teachers and classmates’ helps. Because of them, I go through many interesting experiences that I will never forget.
