Kyd
Something that I learnt from today is to insist one thing is not easy, and it needs to be admired by others. Today, our school held a group of special guests who came from Yunan prefecture. During the assembly time, Mr. Eaton, Ms. Raina also joined us this time, they helped us to introduce those special guests to the students, and help us introduce our school to those teachers. After our introduction of them, Mr. Eaton said that it they can say something about their school of education situation to us. Later, I concentrate myself during their short speech, because it really touched me. One of their teachers told us that in Yunan prefecture, the education situation is not very good. Many children can only afford very cheap tuition for their study. And the local government can only input 100 thousand yuan for the whole prefecture education. In one school, every year, the school can only get 5,000 yuan for the students, teachers, and any daily expense. This time, the whole expense for the entire teacher group to come to our school are more than 10 thousand yuan altogether. Without the help Parent Council of our school, they need to spend the whole school expense of two years, which will not be easy for them to come. That teacher said the old teacher in the teacher group has been teaching for the school for more than 30 years. I am just 16 now. It’s hard for me imagine how can a teacher spent the years more than the years I have lived in order to teach those poor students for their future. I don’t know if he has think about giving up and just find a better job which can maybe offer him a high salary, but he didn’t choose this road. He made up his mind to stand in the teacher’s position for those little children. Honestly, I do not think I can do the as brave thing as he did in the future, but he really impresses us, make us think about our own again. We have the good family background, nice school campus, many great teaches, good study environment, but what can we do for our own future?
Kyd
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At the beginning of the semester, my goal is
that improve my grade in each subject, especially on English and Civics. So far, I almost accomplish my goal, right now I need focus on my final exam. In the Mid-examination, I did good job. Each class all have distinct improvement, I need to keep it and do it better. In next semester, my three goal are in different ways, first goal is definitely improve my English, that’s only can got a perfect score on TOEFL which means I need got at least 90 points in that test. Second goal is going to improve my time management, it’s pretty significant. Learn to manage the time can enhance the efficiency of study. Third goal is that I can get good score in my SAT test, its important test can enable me get into the college. My biggest challenge is art, I was poor at art. In the semester, we did the painting project but it’s was used the abstract way to draw it. I had racked my brain to think of many of method to draw it while I also gain many of things, never give up and focus on it that you will succeed. In this semester, we had lots of class to teach us how to apply the college. I learned lot of things, you not only need your GPA, TOEFL and Sat score but also you need do some extracurricular activities. Take part in the school activity and got the teacher’s recommendation letter. In next semester, we need got a good score on TOEFL and Sat, also we need keep our GPA. Focus on each class, try our best to get a good grade. The progression in this semester that I want share is the management, in last semester I didn’t have any management, I don’t know how to organize all of staff and take notes. In this semester, I become mature, start to organize my life. I think this is the best thing I want to tell you guys. ----Tracy •What is your DREAM?
My dream is to become a superstar, still, or either an author or journalist. •Who are the GIANTS in your life? Even Though it is hard to admit I would like to say that my mother is a giant in my life. She helps me a lot although she often does it in a strange way. And I also think that my best male friend, my first lover whose name is Ivy is another giant in my life. Because I know eventually I will lose somebody but I will never lose him. •Are you afraid of failure? How will you prepare yourself mentally to overcome the challenges in your life? Honestly I am, so every time when I felt like I was going to fail I would work much harder than before and I will talk to a lot of my good friends to keep myself happy so I will not think of negative things. •How can you lead by example at SUIS? By working hard and also attend in a lot of activities, and doing good in both side. •What kinds of healthy life habits can you develop now (today) and start practicing? Eat less junk food and more real meal and also do excise. •Remember to give back to SUIS, Mentors, Family, and Friends! How can I forget! --Angela Chen What is your DREAM?
Talk about my dream, the first one that jumps into my mind is: have a good family (includes my parents are all good, have a husband I love and children I can care about) and become a good psychologist. Because being a psychologist has always been a really big dream for me. The reason why I put “have a good family” beyond being a psychologist is because I always believe the relationship in a family is the most important thing in the whole world. I mean, I cannot live without my family, no matter the one now I have, or the one I would have with my lover. People have many dreams, and so do I. So I have such other dreams like, eat everywhere, travel to a place without crowd near the seaside, etc. Who are the GIANTS in your life? There are many giants in my life, for instance, my mum and dad, my Chinese teacher Ms. Chen who has been taught me during primary school, my middle school Math teacher Mrs. Zhu, etc. But I really want to thank my mum, she is my torchbearer, and always took a great role on leading me to the right way and do the right things. Are you afraid of failure? How will you prepare yourself mentally to overcome the challenges in your life? Actually, I’m not a person who can totally handle all the troubles in her life. I get scared and frustrated sometimes as well. What I would do to prepare myself mentally to overcome the challenges in my life is to imagine all the worst consequences and ready to face them fearless. I believe I would get through all the problems in my life because there’s still a long way to go. How can you take more initiative & develop your integrity The way to take more initiative is to have a good self control. And to be integrity, we need to have a good manner. A good attitude makes you half way of succeed, I truly believe in it. And I believe if I have a good self control, and a good manner, I will be better, and take more initiative as well as develop my integrity. How can you lead by example at SUIS? Learning from good examples is always a good way to improve myself. For instance, I think maybe I can learn from Kathy about how to manage time since she has such many works to do and she has done everything pretty good. It is to find the balance of everything and manage a good order of everything. One important thing to memorize is to be unassertive. And never, ever, be haughty. What kinds of healthy life habits can you develop now (today) and start practicing? I think I should start from the sleeping time. I don’t want to stay up late either, so maybe try to do my works more quickly and manage my time more properly might be a good start. Because sleeping is really important for us especially we are still teens. I will work on this in the following days. By Sherry Last Friday, our school invited a guest speaker named Daniel Hwang. He is a Korean, but he chose to go to US West Point Military Academic School after high school. On that he really showed us how confident, humorous and versatile he is. I want to say that he is a really good speaker and good at how to make the atmosphere hot during the entire presentation. Last Friday, we had a guest speaker, Daniel Hwang. He went to a US Military Academic School called West Point. He led soldiers in Iraq. During his speech, I could tell he’s a very kind person. He is very humorous and confident. I learnt a lot from him.
About my dream: My dream for the future is really simple. I want to find a job that I really like to do not just because it can make more money. I want to enjoy the life in the future, and live a happy life forever. During the speech, Mr. Hwang talked about that having giants in our lives is very important. It will set a good example for us about our future, and give us an idea about what kind of life you want to have in the future. So I think the giants in my life are my parents. Because of their hardworking, I have a great life now, and I want to have the same in the future. That encourages me to be hardworking. If you ask me: am I afraid of failure. Sure, I am. However, failure is even more important than success in our lives. I will prepare myself mentally to overcome the challenges in my life. If I meet a challenge, I will always calm down first, and then think it about it deeply before I take action. Meanwhile I will take more initiative and develop my integrity by being more active in school, and also don’t let go of any opportunities. At SUIS, I will try to be more active. Always try my best not only in study but also working on my leadership skill. In school, I will develop myself both in academic and in extracurricular. In life, I will try to have healthy life habits for instance: sleep earlier and always do exercise. It could be dancing and also it could be jogging. In the end, I will remember to give back to SUIS, Mentors, Family, and Friends! -Kathy Chen Last Friday, Mr. Daniel Hwang, who graduated from West Point and once carried on a mission in Iraq, came to our campus and gave an excellent speech to us. He leaded us to think about a few question below which is very important to our future.
•What is your DREAM? My dream is to become an famous artist and designer. •Who are the GIANTS in your life? The giants in my life includes my mum who always teach me the principle of live; my homeroom teacher in middle school, Ms. Wang, she developed my confidence. •Are you afraid of failure? How will you prepare yourself mentally to overcome the challenges in your life? Yes, I am. When I'm facing some challenges in life, I always try to find another way to solve, because I believe, we should not be limited by old ideas. •How can you take more initiative & develop your integrity? I try to catch every chances in front of me. Although I can't develop rapidly, I keep going and improve my ability step by step. •How can you lead by example at SUIS? I'm always active in different activities and my grade is not bad. I hope I can lead my classmates to improve our abilities in daily study and activities. •What kinds of healthy life habits can you develop now (today) and start practicing? I persevere to drink a cup of water after I get up. I believe that is helpful for my body to detox and get ready for a new day. •Remember to give back to SUIS, Mentors, Family, and Friends! I will, of course. My dream is to get into the financial circle and went to the Wall Street. And find a job such as actuary or analyst in my favorite company ( but I need to find my favorite company first), If I can get a high level attainments in finance , I will help solve some global financial problem
My father is the giant in my life, because he told me so many financial techniques and theory, and he also recommend some book about finance which are easy for me to understand, and also when I meet problem or some professional words, he will always explain to me until I understand. Sometimes, we will share our own opinion on some cases in this book. I can say my father let me be interested in finance. I think everybody is afraid of failure, but failure teaches success, so I won't be upset when I am failed. I will just keep going, find out what cause me fail, and never give up. To realize my dream, I will hard working into Maths and choose a college that is good at finance. And in the summer holiday, I will learn more from my father and may be have some experience on doing financial job ( easy one, just for experience). -David In last Friday, Mr.
Hweng made a presentation for us. He is the guy who graduated from the west point, I really learned many of things from him. I used to know some of information about this school. I knew that this is a military school, it’s very tough to get into this school. In this type of school, people really can practice their body, it’s very strenuous. I saw the video he showed to us, when he graduated from his school, he devoted himself to education. He give us lots of example of his career. When you graduated from a good university, lots of people can change themselves, they can know more things about the world. They had different viewpoint to do understand a same things with the normal people. But in the military school, they can develop their will. That’s why he emphasized the persistence, never give up. I really admire him, he really know how to be strong. What should we do right now. He was a Korean, he went to the American and accept the American education, that’s very tough for him. Diverse culture, language and adapt the environment. I really appreciate him that he said the education is the best way to improve the country. I think that’s right, if we can improve the education while our country will getting better. He mentioned be a good person that you need have integrity, I think it’s true, this is most important thing to judge a person, be honest to be a person, you can never regret. ------------Tracy I do not really have a specific dream but I have a really big one that is to be happy forever. To support my great dream, only myself is obviously not enough so there are many giants in my life. The first one I would like to thank to is my dear mum, she always be the one who care me, help me and support me, no matter wherever and whenever I was. Besides all my family members, teachers are also those nice giants in my school life, I get progenitors’ knowledge from them and learn to learn, learn to live, learn to work with them. To me friends are also very important and never will be forget. Without I just can not be who I am now. I will not be albe to smiling and laughing that much without their company. Speaking about failure, maybe I am really a lucky girl. I seem never have met one yet but I believe I can face them directly since I am always try my best on what I am working with. I will not be regret to what I have done or feeling pity to something I did not try to try. As a member in SUIS, I think the best way to be a good example is to be who I am. Do not try to jump into some situation that you can not held and making sure to make the right decision for yourself and your friends who trust in you. And never do the thing that will cause bad influence to SUIS. That day’s speech also talk a lot about the physical and mental health. To have a healthy body, I have already start to pay more attention on doing exercise and try to keep them regularly and do not give up. To the mental I do not really think there can be a way besides more experience can help me to prepare for future situation. I would like to have as much experience as possible in all different situations in order to make sure I can solve them or bigger one later in the future if I meet them again. I am learning and studying in the SUIS US HIGH SCHOOL and I always remember to give back to SUIS, Mentors, Family, and Friends >A< --- By Linda 20130603 |