Writing 21

【Troubles and Fever】



As the title reads, I had a fever. I didn't take off classes for the whole day, even I felt dizzy. I had two full bottles of water and went strait to bed. My temperature raised to 37.8 Celsius, so I got up from bed and went to the nearest pharmacy. After taking a pill, my head began to daze terribly, and that isn't the end of my bad luck. I broke my thermograph! Being afraid of the mercury might evaporate and spread into the air, I cleaned most of them up. I spent that night in my classmate's room, but I couldn't fall asleep for I was completely terrified.
When I got up the next morning, I asked several friends for help to see if they know how to deal with this situation. They gave useful advices, and one of them would come over to clean up the rest of the mercury. I wonder how many troubles can happen when I was suffering from fever.

Writing 20

【Rival of love】


I have a friend whose appearance is quite attractive for most female, we have been close friends for more than one year. Although he is now joining in the army, we still keep in contact, and sometimes have long talks on weekends. He is a nice guy, and has a virtuous beauty as a girlfriend, being with them is always pleasant.
However, friendship can sometimes be frail. Last Saturday I asked him to ride me to somewhere I had been wanting to go for a long time, but still had no chance to do so. We went to a lot of places that day and didn't leave another friend's house until three o'clock in the morning. His girlfriend kept on calling his cell phone during those hours. I felt so uncomfortable, it seems like she is taking me as her rival of love.
Jealousy can happen, and it's nature; but I don't think his girlfriend should take it so seriously. Maybe pretending not noticing her jealousy is the best way by now.

Writing 19

【Snobbish】



I find people are sometimes snobbish even we don't think we are behaving like that. Take me as an example, when I am taking pictures, I would rather ask those who look better than other plain ones. A photographer told me that he has the same thought as I do, and most of his friends agree with him, too. Amazed, I mentioned it while I had dinner with a girl, who had once been our model. She was not surprised hearing what I said, instead, she said it is not only I have this kind of thought. If it is true, maybe being snobbish is not a bad thing, but showing our human nature.

Writing 18

【Annoying】


My friends and I drove a model to Tainan last Saturday. We took dozens of pictures around a classical European building. There were some other photographers and models as if there was a competition, for those who had a camera all looked professional. While we were taking pictures of our model, there were two men holding expensive cameras came across. They walked around and starred at the girl we were taking photos until one of my friends invited them to join us. To be friendly, we exchanged our MSN after we ended up in that evening, however; I found both of them actually are trying to find opportunities to date our model. She complained with me about their boring conversation. How come a person can be so annoying!

Writing 17

【Birthday Card】


Yesterday was my mother's birthday. I made a birthday card as usual, and sent it home. It has become a habit in our family to send cards in special days, including birthday, Chinese New Year, Christmas, and both Father's Day and Mother's Day. I enjoy spending hours making stuffs like that, it is much fun than studying, and I know how cheerful my family members will be receiving them. Handmade presents are always more valuable than ready made ones, though they might not look as nice as expensive ones. Anyway, I have put all my best wishes into the card, and wish my mom a happy birthday.

Writing 16

【Vampire】


I read a novel about vampire yesterday, the story is well written. It says vampires do exist in our society, we don't know because they pretend to be human in order to raise chances of getting closer to those victims. They have good looking, sharp-witted, and the ability to live long. When I mentioned these to my friend, she told me she could not trust anyone if it's true. However, when I mentioned vampires have attractive appearance, she said she would love to be the first victim to be caught by one of them. How enormous does appearance effect one's mind.

Writing 15

【Club】


I've been joining in a club for two years. It is called The A.C.G. Club, abbreviation of animation, comic, and video games. We had our first meeting in the E building this afternoon, it was about discussing the new publication we plan to publish this semester. In order to make a high-level picture album, I asked several freshmen to join this project. I'm deeply impressed by their astonishing fine drawings, they will surely become our main force in this project. The only thing worries me is how long their enthusiasm will maintain.

Writing 14

【Getting along with children】


I met one of my foreign colleagues on my way back to school. He told me he has trouble controlling naughty kids. He substituted a teacher in another cram school several weeks ago, and the students there are evil. Some of them threw things at him, others said rude words, he was totally annoyed.
I had the same experience this summer. The children at the summer camp were ofter out of control, I had to be mean sometimes, but after those two irritating months, now I am one of the teachers they like the most.
There are lots of ways getting along with children, it is always frustrating at the beginning, after that, I can see their angel-like nature under the little devil masks.

Writing 13

【Appointment】


I have an appointment with some friends this Sunday. We had already affirmed the time two weeks ago; however, I received a message from one of them the other day, saying that most of them decided to go to Taichung. He asked me if I am going, too? "Of course not." I send him back the message.
How serious do people take appointment? I still don't have any idea about it, but I do know even close friends can sometimes ignore the importance of it. Is it silly to take it serious, or maybe it is that I have to take it easy?

Writing 12

【Girl's talk】


I had a chat with my students during the break time today, we were reviewing phonics. The only two boys in the classroom went home before 8:00, that relaxes us when having some girl's talk.
Like most of the little girls, they had problems arranging seats at school: Boys and girls sit next to each other. Those young ladies complained about how irritating it is sitting next to trouble makers. I can completely understand how vexed they are, after all, I was once a little girl, too.
Why do all elementary schools have the same arrangement of seats? I still don't understand.

Writing 11

【Tough】

Again! I didn't let my students go until the phone rang and told me to let them leave. There were too many things to do, and too less time allowing me to finish all of them. I know that it is my duty to make sure my students can go home right after 8:30, and I understand how important it is to follow the schedule so that I won't wast my time. The boss had told me to make good use of time for several times, and I'm quite sure this drives her crazy, but accidents do happen, and they happen all the time! Students just go crazy all of a sudden, what can I do then? Everyone in the company knows those kids are talkative.

I try to make it simple and clear so the kids can understand what I'm trying to explain in a short period of time, but guess what? The harder I explain, the more I find their difficulty based on grammar problem, which makes me force myself to explain more. Obviously, that's what causes me to delay the time of class dismiss.

Sometimes I just get confused about why my boss encourages me to give new materials to those kids all the time, while a lot more things keep me from not taking her advise. Of course I want my kids to use new materials, I've tried listening before, and they do not hate it. They are not so young as "children"; instead, I would rather call them young ladies and young men. I know very well that they are ready to take challenging classes, and are all willing to follow my rules, just if only I have enough time!

Writing 10

【Anger】


The staffs in our company have been in low spirits these two weeks. Our boss, a person who runs an English language school, but knows nearly nothing about English nor teaching, puts more and more pressure on teachers and T.A.s.
I know she has good reason to do so, the number of new student isn't too many than those who left, but I just can't stop wondering doesn't she know except of the two new teachers, all of the staffs are mad at her? What she says are usually the opposite of what she says the next time, it confuses us for most of the time. Moreover, she says mean things to us often, it really hurts one's feeling.
Oh! How I hate listing to her!

Writing 9

【Politeness】


While I was having a chat with one of my elder friends who I mentioned in the former article, I told him about my confusion. He said he does not really care about age problem, for he can totally understand how a twenty-year-old "kid" feels, after all, he was once at that age. I suddenly felt relieved hearing that. It is for sure being friends but feel ill at ease because of not being understood. One thing important he mentioned is politeness, as soon as one is polite, he is willing to make friend with that person, and it means I am polite,too. That's great!