2009年6月25日 星期四

My Winter Vacation of 2009

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Last winter vacation was not an easy time for me. Normally, it’s not longer than summer vacation, but I felt it’s shorter than those winter vacations I took before.
In the first weekend, I went to National Chengchi University for the Toastmasters Camps Union. There were so many representatives from famous universities. Because I was the only one for Lunghwa, I was scared by that scene again. I am glad that I was survived after the meeting, but It seems that I had found the value which I participating these regular meetings. Several days later, I took my younger brother to see a free movie “Ink Heart.” The plot is very good and the main character’s tongue is really amazing. Of course, the highlight of the winter vacation was the Chinese New Year. In order to prepare for a “new” year, I helped my parents to clean my house from indoor to outdoor. I got a great amount of red envelopes since the New Year’s Eve, and then I celebrated it with my family. In the second day of the New Year, we took a trip to Banciao, the home of my mother’s family’s, to celebrate with my grandmother, uncles, aunts and cousins. In the evening, we had a big dinner in a restaurant. But I ate too much and felt sick. Then we accepted more red envelopes, so my cousin and I used some of them to buy some firecrackers and play them. After the New Year week, I took my younger to the National Palace Museum. We spent about four hours in the museum and appreciated those ancient things. Some of them are not real ones, but they are still beautiful.
After the winter vacation, I can temporarily relax myself. Now the new semester has begun, I still have to work hard so that I can have a more relaxed summer vacation.

2009年6月19日 星期五

Inauguration of My Blog!!!

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The annoying final exam has eventually ended, let’s acclaim for the coming of summer vacation first. Hip, hip, hurray!!! The second acclaim is for my blog, Linguist’s Lab, which I just established yesterday. Hip, hip, hurray!!!
The main purpose of the blog’s establishment is to compete for the English blog writing contest holding on September. The first three prices will get $NT 3000, $NT 2000 and $NT 1000 respectively. Here, I want to appreciate my teacher, Sylvia, again for giving affirmative comments to my writing skills. She even said anybody participate this contest and win the price will be added extra scores in the course she teachs next semester. It really sounds a good temptation; moreover, the person will get both scores and money if he or she wins the contest. So that is quite a rare chance we can kill two birds with one stone.
As for the reason why I use “Linguist’s Lab” to be the title of my blog, I want to edit in the three kinds of foreign languages I have learned so far: English, Spanish and French. The meaning of the word “linguist” is to describe a person who is proficient in many languages. I hope I can be a master like this on day. Of course, most of the topic will be editted in English. Due to my current level of Spanish and French, they will be focused in edditing daily common vocabularies and conversations. There are some topics I plant to write as follows: diary, assigned writing topics, in-class notes, language teaching and learning, and other foreign languages. The diary in the most important part of the blog, I will write about many funny daily events of mine. The assigned writing topics include those topics I had praceticed in writing class this semester and those reference topics given by Harris. The in-class notes are to commemorate Professor Tzyh-lai Huang, the most respectable instructor in the department, who will retire in this July. The content is about the five courses what I have learned from him. Language teaching and learning is about the two practical couses I took in language teaching and learning. I will make summeries from the two books: “Language Learning Strategies” and “Techniques and Principles in Language Teaching.” As a linguist, once he or she has the abilities of teaching and learning in language, it will be more professional than others. The other foreign languages will be editted in Spanish or French, the content just as I mentioned before.
Finally, the third acclaim is for my success in editting my blog and victory of the blog writing contest. Hip, hip, hurray!!!