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I hate one person for she really irritated me! She completely went back on her word and she should not have done this on account of her position. Well, she is bound not to convince me any longer. However, I have to pretend she is honorable for my own good. She will be the kind of person to me as the proverb said,“Out of sight, out of mind.”

These days, I want to buy a coat because of the resent cold weather. A few days ago, I went shopping with my friends and looked for the coat that I wanted. Nevertheless, the coat I was eager to purchase was too expensive for me to afford. Thus, I decided to buy it through online shopping. Surprisingly, my ideal coat was half cheaper than the real shop sold. I asked my mom’s opinion and my mom told me she preferred to buy the one in the real shop despite the high price rather than purchase the cheaper one online. So now I wondered if I should buy the coat online for it was convenient to purchase online.

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It’s been quite cold since it rained several days early. No matter how cold it was, I hated to go outside when it came to rainy days. Anyway, winter seemed to come finally after those bad days. As time went by, I have worked part-time at the language center half the semester and everything was okay in spite of some troublesome trifles. I worked at the office on the second floor of the language center. My job was to serve the teachers as well as the students coming to the office; besides, I had to clean one classroom on the second floor. To clean up the room was sort of troubling because I had to put the student desks and chairs in order. The style of rows was fixed so what I could do was to give space to every seat as proper as I could. In spite of the fact that I tried, the space of every seat seemed not big enough yet but I had no idea how to improve up to now. Also, what made me really mad was I had to clear away the rubbish that students left there. Several notices put up on the wall to inform them of not leaving litter in the classroom but still many of them did not throw away their own rubbish. To the point, even some students ate in the room and left their garbage. Well, I just hated these kind of notorious doings which were extremely disgusting.

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Last Saturday the student association held a live concert at the schoolyard at four o’clock in the afternoon, so Jennifer, Melody, and I went to the concert together. We got to there to queue up for the entering one before the beginning; a great number of people had arrived and waited. However, it was not until we waited for over two hours that the part-time workers started to let us enter the playground. The beginning was quite tedious for several unknown bands perform extremely badly. The strange tones, wrong English lyrics and terrible singing were absolutely sucked. Conversely, the end of the concert was definitely worth our waiting. The prominent band, Soda Green, singing many famous songs, gave us a fantastic ending.
This Friday Jennifer and I went shopping at Yizhong Street. It was surprising for me to get aware of knowing the fact that I went shopping first time this semester because I had not played around for a long time. I found that my life now was full of work and assignments. I really needed pastime to have fun and to rich my life. Nevertheless, I just want relax at home on holidays. Up to now I was still unable to make some changes.

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I had a fantastic trip to Taipei last weekend! My friend, Ivy, took me to several scenic spots, such as, Taipei zoo and Shen-Keng. We also went for a live concert in Taipei Arena. I went to Taipei rather than participate in the orientation program of our department because of private reasons. To the brief, I thought procedure of planning was quite complicated and formidable. I sort of preferred own my privacy to take place in public matters. It was fortunate that the freshmen had wonderful experience in spite of the fact that the faculty had kind of quarrels but it ended successfully. Even though I did not join, I was aware of the difficulties to hold an activity. I admired those who persisted in their ideals despite setbacks. However, what I knew made me retreat from all the public matters. I had no idea why human relation could be so complex though it was definitely a trial of socialization.

I was uncertainly sure if I did well on English literature because too much stuff to be prepared and I nevertheless did not study all. The exam would be really detailed according to the instructor’s preliminary announcement; I was however incapable of being careful. I made an arduous effort to do the exam all right and hoped the consequence would be not bad. Furthermore, I was disappointed about my listening test though it could be expected. Well, let it be.

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This week I had the midterm exams on five majors and one minor. The exams were not easy and I thought they were appropriate but I was absent-minded on the listening simulated examination. I could not help but usually be inattentive on listening tests. After this week I will still have two exams, English literature exam and oral English test. However, before these two exams I will go to Taipei to meet my friends. I had looked forward to this reunion since this semester began so I was sure that I will go there in spite of the exams.
I prepared Japanese and Spanish carefully before the exams because it was the first time for me to learn these languages, hoping that I could receive okay scores. Furthermore, the exams of my history and social majors were not difficult as I had imagined, so I finished the answer sheet soon.
These days life was quite difficult since prices of commodities was high increasingly. I had the burden of economic situation because I had a motorcycle this year. The petroleum price had kept high recently so I did not like to fuel up but had to do it. It seemed that cooking by my self was the better way to decrease the life expense; thus, I cooked more often than not these days. Moreover, it also rained these days and got colder; winter came. I liked winter more than summer but in Taichung it rained occasionally in winter and I did not like rainy days. I did not like to go out when it rained because it was really inconvenient to go out. Also, cloudy and rainy days made me gloomy. Thus, I hoped sunny days would come back soon in spite the fact that it would not be warm.

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I used to be anxious whenever important things were coming. Sometimes anxiety would force me to concentrate on them but this way was really sucked. I would be tense before things were done, gradually feeling fatigued. After finding the reason that I made myself nervous and occupied, I was determined to get rid of my bad habit. Trying to think thrice before acting was a good way to avoid being impulsive. For instance, I had always prepared the examinations just before the day the exams had been held last year. That was quite awful because everything had to be prepared and nothing came one by one. Therefore, I had to burn the midnight oil to study, study, and study. How dreadful! From the terrible experience, I knew the importance of being well-prepared and being scheduled. I hoped that I would not recommit the same error by the way of thinking how important it is for me to study regularly rather than think impulsively that I could deal with it on time.

Strange things happened to me occasionally. One day, when I got off duty and Ricky, Alex and I just went down the first floor of the language center, Alex found that the light one classroom was still not turn off. Therefore, we had to go back and turn it off. However, I remembered switching it off when locking the classroom. That was really weird. Another one was one day I went shopping with my friend, Ivy and we were ready to go home. Before we got on the bus, I had fore bags in my hand. Nevertheless, when we were on the bus, I suddenly found that one bag got lost and I could not find it. Ivy and I were sure that I had four bags at the moment when we were getting on the bus. Well, weird.

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I had a fantastic lunch on this Sunday together with my friends each in Freshman, Junior, and Senior respectively. It was me who held this reunion because I was in my sophomore year and I chose an Italian restaurant called Fatty’s partly because I loves Italian food and partly because it was famous for its delicious dish. Moreover, I had to ride the freshman friend there and back to her dorm. They were the rules accepted through common practice. During dining, we happily talked a lot no matter what topics were and the seniors also told about their experiences and pursuits which we could learn from. And this was the reason that I always loved our reunions.
These days, I changed some of my thoughts for several unhappy incidences happened to me. Some people were aggressive and ambitious; when I got along with them, I had used to stick to my opinions as they did. However, I found the insistence I held usually led to unpleasant results and even quarrels. Then I have started to wonder if this really did me good since I felt tired of getting worldly wisdom. I was on second thought that I was supposed to give in to them and just repressed my ideas in order not to make discord because it did not matter at all. Furthermore, I began not to keep a promise that somebody made it with me when he or she had done back on it first. Keeping the broken promise made me like a fool. I have decided to ignore my emotions and just let it be. These were two new situations that I wanted to be without emotion.
Recently, my roommates and I have cooked ourselves. It was an interesting experience for I used to cook with my mom’s help. Maybe my cooking skill would makes progress by cooking as many times as I can.

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There were always a lot of things to do these days and I was dying for a thorough rest, being completely run-down. The schoolwork and my part-time job made me exhausted. I seemed to have lived a busy life as if I was an examinee, having kept this kind of life for many days and having no choice but be sick for my Freshman life which had been away from too many trifles. Every night I wanted to do to bed early and to keep regular hours; however, I always failed to fulfill my aspiration. I had to burn the midnight oil to finish the schoolwork or preparation for texts and quizzes but gave up halfway because of fatigue once in a while. Then, I accomplished nothing but slept late; also, I felt sleepy on the next day in classes. All these things frustrated me and made a vicious circle. This kind of life was quite boring and annoying. I did really not want to stay this kind of life for the whole year.
Our department set up several different kinds of courses, such as Chinese for the foreign students, GEPT, TOEIC, TOFFLE, and so on. I worked at the language center of our school, so the affairs of these classes were part of my job. Through this job, I learned how to appropriately response to the adults who kept terrible attitudes. Some had the sense of superiority and looked down on our abilities because of their social status. Still others really devoted to English learning. There were even our school students to attend these classes. In spite of unpleasant people and things, I still met those nice persons and knew several our department teachers whom I had rarely known before. The only disadvantage was the pat was really low for we had so many works.

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I am gradually accustomed to my busy life which started from this semester. However, I still feel exhausted once in a while whenever I am back at night. I had to save my life expense for the housing expense because I rented a house with my friends this year. Also, I had new motorcycle so I had the extra expenditure on the gasoline. Thus, I want to be thriftier and not to have too much economical pressure for my presents. Moreover, my schoolwork has become more difficult since I selected two foreign languages as required and selective courses respectively this academic year. I choose Japanese and Spanish finally because I was interested in them. It was quite hard for me at the beginning because I was a totally novice at them. And I realized when interest became a pressure; it would not make me become interested in it anymore. But I still want to learn them well though some said that it is too late to learn foreign languages for my age. Another trouble for my study is that the listening classes. The quality of the interview of online material which the instructor assigned is really poor and makes me insane. Especially its interview is quite long. It is the greatest obstacle that I met.
On the other hand, another two courses are more interesting. They are the history of observing China and Democracy and Constitution. The names sound boring but the instructors made the courses interesting. The history teacher seems to be new to the school but her lecture topics are amazing. The Democracy and Constitution teacher is humorous though the course itself is tedious. But I would chose them again if I have the chance to do so. Anyway, I hope that this year could be … safe and sound.

The Resent Days

I have been quite busy since the new semester began. Because I got a part-time job at the language center、I have to work on Tuesday、Wednesday、and Thursday nights. Despite the fact that this job is not difficult for me、I still feel tired after I come off work and back home. Even though the pay is not high、I am still satisfied. Most university students want to be tutors as their jobs because the pay is really high. However、the responsibility for being a tutor is heavy. As a tutor、you have to have the sense of responsibility and patience. I do not want to shoulder so great responsibility because the pressure would make me anxious.
What’s more、I selected two foreign languages courses this semester、so my schoolwork is much more than it was before. My life now is full of things to do. I would a brand-new life which is different from my freshman life.
The new semester means new courses and new teachers. It is kind of hard for and takes me do adjust myself to the new things. Moreover, because I did not practice English during summer vacation, I found my English ability did not improve. Some courses became tortures for me, for instance, English literature, because the teachers speak English in the whole classes and I cannot even understand some of their meanings. Thus, because I cannot understand and the speed of the teachers teaching is too fast, I lost interested in English and often take naps in classes. After classes, I do not know how to review the lessons, either. Those led to vicious circles and really trouble me very much. Sometimes I even suspected whether the choice that I had decided to major in English is appropriate or not. I hope that I could find ways to solve this problem and develop an interest in English again.

Life Philosophy

My live philosophy is to live a simple life. It does not mean I always make a plan to do everything; instead, I do not like to leave many things till tomorrow. Therefore, I prefer not to think much about the future; I just wear through the day. In the morning, I go to school and take classes. During the rest, I start to think what I will do after classes. Finishing classes, I have my dinner and then go to do my part-time job. After coming off work, I go home and relax. Watching TV and playing my computer are my pastimes. On holidays, studying or enjoying the leisure time and leaving nothing to do is how I enjoy my time. Going back to my hometown or visiting friends from time to time is additional way to spend leisure time. If time or weather permits, maybe go out with friends. Life is plain but leisurely and carefree.
I do not like to play all through the night. As for me, sleeping is more important than burning the midnight oil. In the past, I fooled about more often than not. I stayed up late now and then and it turned out to be my bad state of health. Thus, after I graduated from senior high school and did not have the pressure to advance higher school, I changed my habits a lot. I like my present life but perhaps I would add more recreations and activities to enrich my life, especially for this moment when I am supposed to take my future into consideration. However, I usually change my mind frequently, so maybe I will not stick to my plan. No matter what situation would be, I just want to do things at my will and live a simple life.