Take A Break

Owning to I worked very hard yesterday, my mother gave me the reward 500NT dollars! I was walking on the water!!! By the way, my parents’ store closed on Sundays and holidays. As a result, my family turns on the air condition almost whole day. After us finishing the lunch, my mother suggested to watch the movie, Avatar, so we spent about 162mins to watch it. My mother didn’t watch the whole movie but go to take a nap. It is understandable that the hot weather let people want to sleep or be lazy. I had watched Avatar in the movie theater, so I still remembered the content. Nevertheless, I still intoxicated in the Pandora world.


After I finishing the movie, my mother and I started to clean up my clothes chest. It’s really embarrassing that I found there were two of my father’s jeans in my clothes chest… What’s more, we also found out that my father’s underwaist was in my clothes chest, too. I didn’t know why and how those things were in my clothes chest. My father made fun of this matter, “No wonder my jeans are less and less.”

Oops! The grades will publish tomorrow. I hope I can all pass.

Still Hot, Hot, and Hot

I also went out to help my parents’ business today. I added the tableware and condiments, I wiped tables, and I picked the Asian basil. Today began with busy, the business was pretty good. We have been on the run all day and I'm exhausted. The weather was y scorching hot; I didn’t want to go out at all, so I stayed at the store all day long. One of the customer told us that the temperature outside was 38℃ even higher. It’s not kidding; the temperature seems to kill me. The weather was too hot to cool down the temperature inside the store. Although my father set the air condition in 22℃, the temperature still kept in 28℃.

 My parents’ store has air conditions, so I felt very cool there. What’s more, my mother had prepared watermelon and her friend bought a cup of Java Chip Frappuccino Blended Coffee for cooling down. Wait, let me recall everything I did today. I ate, ate, and ate continuously. Breakfast, watermelon, bowled pastry, lunch, Java Chip Frappuccino Blended Coffee, cookies, Chinese Burrito, dinner, and watermelon again. It seems impossible to lose weight this summer. :(


One of today’s customers bought a famous music instrument in FIFA 2010, Vuvuzela. My mother asked the customer to play it again. Oh my goodness!!! The sound was noisy. No wonder those soccer player said that they don’t like fans to play it because it could influence the soccer players. And my mother also asked the customer how much the Vuvuzela is. It cost 200NT dollars!!! That too expensive! The Vuvuzela was made by plastic; I guessed the prime cost only 50NT dollars or low. Don’t mind, it just is the trend!

Hot, Hot, and Hot...

It’s damn hot! I didn’t go out to help my parents’ business but stay home today. I woke up because of the hot weather. Clean clothes, put some cool water for my pet birds to play, and study. It’s seems to be a common day. However, I answered a phone, which was called by my mother, and she blamed me that I didn’t answer her phone. She said she had called me for a half hour but I still didn’t the phone, and she has asked my brother to go home at once. I told my mother why I didn’t hear the phone call. I thought that I turn on the air condition and the voice of machine was too loud so that I didn’t hear phone call, and I also didn’t turn on my cell phone. I think my mother was worried about me, but it seems too over. My mother even doubted that I went out when she called me, but it’s impossible! The sun seems to roast me; I would like to stay in the room with air condition rather than go out to be sunned dried. I hope I could not to get sunstroke tomorrow. :(

A Terrible Fish bone

I went out to help my parents’ business, which is a food stand. It was really busy all day along. Even though, I still took a nap in the afternoon. Everything was fine until I had the dinner… One of my relatives gave my parents a fish soup. My mother let mw eat that fish soup, which come from a famous food stand in Wanhwa. My tribulation began. The fish soup was delicious, but the eel had too many fish bone. I had to pick the bones from the meats. However, there was a 2cm fish bone swallowed accidentally by me. Oh my goodness! I felt the fish bone stabbed my throat. I had tried to swallow the fish bone, but it jammed in my throat. I felt not right, so I rushed to see the otolaryngologist. The doctor painstaking picked out the fish bone from my throat. The doctor said that if the fish bone still couldn’t pick out, I could have to the emergency room. Thanks God. The fish bone scared the hell out of me. :(

Summer Vacation Is Beginning!!!

Today is June 26; it means the beginning of summer vacation because this semester is finished. After I done the presentation in writing class, my professor T.J. told everyone should keep on writing in the future. I remember that last summer vacation; I also did the journal, but…only two articles. That’s a little bit disgrace. However, this time I’ll try my best to keep on writing because write something in English not only can practice English but also can record of my daily life. I’ll start the diary in July 1.

Stage Fright

I know that the issue, stage fright, has been discussed several times. However, if the speaker or the writer is a serious stage fright person like me, I think it would be more persuasive because most of the symptom about stage fright I have ever experienced. Such as when I was doing the presentation on the stage, my voice would be tremble, my hands might shake, or I couldn’t do anything instead of keep silence and read the copy. After three years learning English in the college and has done many kinds of presentation, I finally found the reason why I can’t overcome stage fright.

That was a horrible period of my colorful college life. When I was a freshman, I met a severe professor. I got the extremely high pressure in her class. Before I tell you what the professor had done, I have to proclaim that she is undoubtedly a good and diligent teacher. Now, I’m going to talk about how I lose my bravery and couldn’t conquer the stage fright. I remember when I finished the first time to do the presentation, professor said directly, “Does anyone know what she talking about?” Of course, no one answer the question. Then, the professor shake her head and make the note, maybe it was my poor grades.

During the semester, the professor gave us many works to do such as cat walk, cooing, make TV commercial, and so on. Singing English songs is the mid-term exam. All of them are funny and let me learn many things. However, the finally exam is not interesting at all. Professor made the exam to be an interview and students have to dress the formal dressing. Three students are in a group. Professor would ask some questions and student have try to answer questions as soon as possible. The first one would get the higher grades. If you couldn’t answer the question, professor would ignore you at once. When I couldn’t answer the question, I'm depressed, and the attitude of teacher is the second injury to me.

After that, I usually very worried about the attitude of teacher when I speak English. If the teacher is severe, I would be more nervous when I do my presentation so that the more chance that I would make wrong because I would afraid that whether teacher would blame me or not. Even though I didn't have the professor's class after that year, the impression of high pressure still in my mind, and it let me can not overcome the stage fright until now.

A Good Learning Place in School

Our school's self-access classroom is an excellent language learning place. They provide novels, magazines, and movies in many kinds of languages. Learning language is nothing more than read and listen more, thus I often use free time to see a movie or listen music there. Self-access classroom also have English online mock test, so I can practice and prepare many times before taking the exam. Our school provides such a wonderful place for us to build up language abilities; I should use this valuable resource well during the last year in school.