Own your own business!

These months, I didn't show up but still kept on learning. Sometimes I regret that I didn't notice what I don't know as in college. Getting older and eager to succeed make all the knowledge I lack in need. I read and read, for patching the holes of my capability - financial IQ, real estate, health control and social relationship.

SYSTEM is what keeps a company going. The leader made a system which stemmed form a though, a principle or a faith that all followers could obey and trust in. Do I have enough know-how to build my own system which enables me to lead a group, a department or even a company? Not yet! Not ready yet! What do I actually need I don't know. I just know I have to develop this habit as longing for knowledge and experience are essential to life. For my boss, he has got a few points of English learning and education. He, who then created a successful career of his own, established a new system of learning English that none in the same field couldn't surpass. That's only one faith or one rule you have to come up with, but additionally it has to be super unique.

Now we've got rule no.1 of the way to your own business - build your own system. Unique and new! Right to the point where the market is.

My American School Students

I could hardly know how it feels to have beginner students in AS till
I began the class starting from zero on 8/3 right after summer break.
Being inexperienced in teaching beginners, I kept asking and taking notes.

They are three naive and cute kids.
Two girls and one boy.
Their English is on my hand, I told myself at my first sight of them.
I've got to teach them right English. Namely they can speak like native speakers
while read articles out of any question.

Fortunately, I don't fight alone.
Sarah also teaches them as a model for me.
I have no reason to be afraid but I have to emphasize
the priority in learning process that leads them
to learn steadily and efficiently.
That is what I ought to master now.

It's been 3 weeks.
They are so cute that I came up an idea to have my own child for the first time.
And if I can choose, I want a girl.
Girls are cuter according to my feeling.
They are really amazing that I am kind of fond of teaching them.
And what bothers me is the way to MAKE them absorb the knowledge.
I am still figuring it out!!

English, Hard or Easy...

Almost 1 year has it been since I taught English.
I think I grew up in some ways.
The environment is indeed the most significant factor
that leads a child to master English in a stable pace.
The earlier you parents push your children into it
, the earlier they get to soak in the atmosphere.
Once you get accustomed to the pressure, you feel no pressure at all.

Little by little, I was convinced of the push-your-child-in-the-earlier-the-better thing.
That's true!
There is a large gap between a child who starts at 7 and the other as a teen.
Children who started early can read and use English by 2 years while the others can't even read KK phonetic symbols and are about to go to junior high.
And grammar knowledge is limited if you can start earlier to learn it.
If you know it well and you'll find out
that there are just a few different modifiers or parts of speech you need to recognize
, such as infinitives, prepositional phrases and clauses
which I look upon as words in odd clothes.
Once the kids master grammar and English, they are able to read profound editorials written by famous columnists from New York Times, Chicago Tribune, The Washington Post and so forth while sitting next to high school students.
How breathtaking it is!

The focusing on steps of teaching plan stage has gone on to the making students understand stage, which I considered a new milestone to my teaching career.
However, I have got to admit that the following phase is harsher.
Trying every suitable treatment to improve the whole class is never effortless
because it's not a sooner-or-later stuff like accustoming procedures of teaching
but a journey that you search for cure to change students' studying habits.

The new semester is around the corner.
I am going to teach new classes of totally fledgling kids.
I am afraid if I am ready for the challenge though I knew it to be necessary.
To bring a child from none to mastering English, I am about to be tested.
Hope everything goes just fine.

社會學 Sociology 學社會

Sociology is easy to catch on wherever you want to.
My company is the very place I learned the lesson.
They say the army is a small world. I see...
And furthermore, I suddenly found myself in the real society at every age I am.
Not only in military but also in school, family, or even kindergarten.
In fact, we started to learn the world since the day we were born.
We are learning relationship among people.
Some people are good, some are bad, as you divide them into two.
And maybe you want to tell them apart more precisely
, there are countless adjectives you can use.
You will see you're getting human being more complicated
and getting you more confused as well as frustrated.

Pal! What matters is your getting your own lesson
－the different way you treat different people. It's called "be smart!"
The battle among children is exactly the same as it among adults.
As for stealing, 3 dollars and 1 trillion differs.
As for fighting, fists and guns differs.
As for revenge, telling on and murdering differs.
What's the difference? Degree but nothing more.
Growing up is like getting into the truth to the secret of the society.
Feeling sorrowful but it's better than being fooled.

Someday I will know how the world runs, regardless of grief in mind.
As long as I know how to control the drawback, I'm able to manage the world.
Nothing to fear, at least, friends is my final fortress besides family.
They are two things I need on my way to success.
A gorgeous empire has emerged. Webber and I are in, anyone else...?

面對期待

當你面對期待
內心會是壓力
亦或是助力呢

進入補習班後
面對的期待一直改變

原先是對自我上課的期待
怎麼說都是菜鳥
累積經驗的過程很是辛苦
對這群小孩來說
什麼一定要懂
什麼不懂沒關係
我不曉得
也就讓我的教學處於嘗試階段
能夠在一堂課內了解學生欠缺的能力
從而給與協助
是我對自己的期待

然後是對學生的期待
什麼都要會
什麼都要學
我就是怕少教了一樣
基礎沒打好
打壞招牌，沒面子
學生能力強
是我對學生的期待

最後
卻是在與每個學生家長通完電話後
感受到的期待
希望小孩學好英文的期待
這也是壓力超越前二項的期待
一切都要和家長談過後才知道
每個學生都不一樣
都帶著父母的期望
他或許是我眾多學生之一
卻是爸媽的唯一
理當為學生著想
看著學生及我所背負的壓力
真是難以負荷的期待阿!
但我會努力的，讓你們的英文很屌!就像老闆說的!

Teacher to Be 1 Month-old

It's been 23 days to teach as a teacher in Seeds Language School.
I quite enjoy the days so far.
Teaching plan has begun an usual task for me
, whereas controlling concentration and attitudes of students
has become a new task for me.

Sometimes the misbehavior of a student may not just directly derive from the student
, but the parents who should educate them well.
Because of the factor, I always feel sorry for the kid for his being in the very poor family.
I think that is what I should keep in mind for avoiding being hurt by the blameful parents
just as Teacher Tsai in Yong Hwa Elementary School told me.
I don't know when this kind of injury from the parents will come, but I am ready for any challenge since I've decided to take the job.

The atmosphere in the office is nice
and I feel I am making progress every day, including teaching skill and capability of English
, which I see as my supreme lesson to learn.
Anyway, it's a little bit tired, a little bit good and a little bit feeling of growing up.
24 hours seem more not enough now that I seldom have time for my leisure.
I know I'm still figuring out the best schedule for myself and I can do it.

工作

好久好久...
約有24年就這樣過去
學生學生學生的日子
終於過去
終於...我開始工作
第一份正式的工作
從大學二年級就開始等待這天的到來
說是等待
其實也包含著一點點等等看
看自己
到底會不會找到另一個自己會愛到陷進去的領域
可惜到了今天
仍在原點、原來的工作
終於知道我沒找到
所以是否真的喜歡這份工作我也不清楚
只能說我不排斥
就這樣子而已

還記得高中英佬說過
雖然人人都說當學生比較幸福
但他喜歡上班勝於當學生
因為上班和上學一樣累人，可是上班有錢領，唸書沒有
嗯，我想這是在聽到的那個當下
我立志把脫離學生身份當成終極目標的

有了工作就會有了經濟能力
有了經濟能力就要自己養自己了
雖然隨之而來的壓力與責任
會接踵而來
但很多事情與責任本來就是自己的
父母幫忙了20幾年
在這時還給我們罷了

*這時忽然想起當時問Paul的一個問題
「老家的英文是什麼阿?
嗯...就是那個從小生長的家」
Paul想了一下，說
「parents' house」
頓時之間我才了解為什麼國外小孩成年了就會想出去住
因為老家不是他的家，是他小時候的家，是他父母的家
與中國人的觀念真是不一樣
也難怪他們從小就可以比較獨立
所以現在我也都改口說
這是我爸的車、那是我媽的房子
說不定這樣子我能真正從最心底獨立起來
不過目前還是稱家為"我家"...因為說"我爸媽家"真的很怪

目前的工作還算OK~
每天看課，觀摩
加上幾節要上的課
我拚命地觀察每位小孩的狀況
希望我可以從了解他們開始
掌握每位學生的學習狀況
只是一切都還剛開始
什麼都是霧煞煞

不過一切還挺順利的...呵呵

5th Grade Class 1

Today I was distributed to 5th grade class 1. I am going to be with the students in 5-1 for the coming year. I don't know what I will confront, but I know I will grow up form it. It may be the hardship that push me to learn more about the thought of children, which sharps my technique of teaching. My teacher is 蔡淑菁, an expert teacher, who is nice to her students. For my first sight of her, she is good and respectful.
On the way to the new classroom, my heart was beating heavily as the children's. They were rearranged to their new class and I was just arranged to their class less than 1 hour earlier. We were on the way to different futures stemming from the same factor. Thinking of this, I walked closer to them. I think we were on the same boat, we were going to learn something.
Destiny...It was our fate to be students of teacher's college. We went to eat Cantonese meal on 長榮路 which was introduced by Paul who came to eat with us later. Destiny forced us to have no job guarantee. This big problem was what we talked. Never mind, we've known it for a long time. We were just complaining again though.