School Life (revised)

I studied at Department of Applied Foreign Languages in National Tainan Commercial Vocational Senior High School (NTCVS).  As a student majoring in English, studying English had become my daily routine.  In addition to English textbooks, I also read English magazines, such as Advanced and Studio Classroom. They are very useful owing to the up-to-date information offered inside. What we could get from them is not only English improvement but the current trend of the world. Among every course, English listening and speaking, which was instructed by a foreign teacher, had always been my favorite. I think the most significant purpose of learning English is communication. As a result, I felt delightful when I found that I had no problems talking with a native English-speaker.  Moreover, my friends and I participated in an English story-telling contest. Though we did not stand on top eventually, we learned a lot from the precious experience. With the encouragement of teachers, I took the General English Proficiency Test and passed the intermediate level.  

  I remember when I first stepped in the classroom and everyone seemed to be so shy and calm. However, after we got along with each others for years, it ended up that everyone who used to sit quietly on the chair turned into people who are very talkative and enthusiastic. I am no exception.  As a quite humurous person, I often made my fellow students burst into laughter. We seldom had argument and always united together. That’s the reason why I loved my classmates and was always willing to go to school.

    As to my extracurricular activities, playing volleyball had been the most typical sport in our school.  Almost all the students played it.  However, as a freshman, I didn't even know the rules of volleyball.   It was not until the volleyball competition approached that I started to practice.  Besides me, lots of my fellow students also commenced to play volleyball.  Eventually, playing volleyball had been the routine of our life.   Every day, my friends and I stayed at school playing volleyball, which helped us a lot releasing the pressure from studies.  Sometimes, on weekends, we even spent hours at school playing volleyball.  There was so much fun and we all cherished the times we had been through.  I hope we will all remember the days when we laughed, cried, shouted together.