My Most Impressive Experience

In my mind, the most unforgettable experience is that 12 years ago I went to a summer vacation short-term course in America. When I was first grade in primary school, my sister and I traveled to America in that summer vacation. We lived in our uncle’s house, and went to a summer vacation short-term course there for about three weeks. At that period, we had some delicious cookies and went to school with a good mood every day.

My sister and I were in different courses. In my course, my teacher took a big book and read a story to the students in that class, and all the students sat on the floor around the teacher in the first hour. Then, the teacher gave some math exercises and made us practice them. In these exercises, because I hadn’t learned multiplication and division; my friend who is a Chinese American taught me how to do them. Besides, the teachers cut some cute pictures and let us match the sentences. When we had a good behavior we would get some candy and cookies from the teacher. The teacher’s teaching way was playing and teaching simultaneously. In that time, English was all Greek to me. I had known nothing about English, not even the alphabet. Although I didn’t understand English, I still followed everyone. I didn’t fear for that, instead, I felt the course was really interesting.

During the break time, the teacher would lock the door in order to let us have many more activities and play outdoors. And we were sharing our snacks with each other. We also played handball together. In that school, there were many students from many different countries. I made some friends from Korea, Japan, America, England, and so on. I couldn’t communicate with them very easily, but we still played together and had fun.

After I finished the course, I had learned from A to Z, I could count from one to a hundred, and I acquired some simple English words. From that moment on, I fell in love with English.

It was twelve years ago when I studied in America, but it is the most impressive reminiscence in my mind.

It's Me (Journal 1)

My Name is 寇希妤. My English name is Krista. I born in Nov.28th, 1989. I am 18years old, more than one month later I will turn 19 years old. I think I should become more independence, has more responsibility, and much more maturity.

I lived in sun-drenched the South part of Taiwan, second largest city - Kaoshiung -. Kaoshiung is a very beautiful place and our people here are very friendly. There are four people in my family, father, mother, elder sister, and I. My father is an office worker, my mother is a housewife, and my sister is a college student in Shih Chien University, she is also an English major student. We get along with each other. We are a family with happiness, warmth, and full of love.

I have many hobbies, I like drawing, listening to music, watching movies, go traveling, chatting with my friends, reading books and fashion magazine, and shopping, ext. When I have free time I will do these things, or when I feel unhappy I also do them and they can make me feel better.

Optimistic, cheery, have a good temper, and always stand in others point to deal with many things I think these are my merits. Many of my friends and my mom told me that “You are too innocent and silly”, they all worry about that some people would deceive me. For me, I think a little lazy, a little muddled are my shortcomings.

In these four years, I have to learn much more knowledge, not only in English but also in my daily life. I hope I can advance to a higher school smoothly, and I will go abroad to further my learning.

I am desirous that the people I love and I all can HAPPY forever. In my mind, happy can let our life more colorful and more meaningful.


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Composition Skills and the Internet (Journal 2)

When I have to write a composition, I will look for the books or surf the internet which contain much information. I think this website -- http://write.scu.edu.tw/ -- is very helpful to me.

It gives me a lot of useful information for how to write a good essay. First, it contains every kinds of article that we can consult how to write different topics on this website. Second, it also has sources can be divided into two parts: basic and advanced about grammar practice, and it can help me to use right grammar in an article. Third, this website make some common mistake into a list which we may make. It analyzes every error narrowly, and teach us how to correct these mistakes. The most important reason I like this website is because it classify category systematically. I can easy to understand what is its mean.

I think I could learn lots of sentence structure, learn how to write essay, paper, autobiography, and so on, on this website. Besides, I would make less mistakes after surfing this web. I hope I can use this website to promote my composition ability, and can write a prefect composition one day.


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