“Giving things up often brings greater benefits than holding in to them.” ““What are you doing for others?” According to Martin Luther King, an essential leader of the American Civil Right movement, that is life’s most urgent question.” ~By Beth Bowyer~I read some articles in the Studio Classroom these days. Two of them mentioned the “Sweet sacrifices” and “The courage to sacrifice”. The most impressive story is about Professor Liviu Librescu. On April 16, 2007, a gunshot case in the campus of Virginia Tech. This 76-year-old professor blocked the classroom door to give his students enough time to jump out of the second story windows. But he couldn’t withstand for long and was shot to death. His action really touches me. I felt so proud of him. He must be a person who is always nice to others, especially to the students. After I read them and had a deep thought. I asked myself some questions. “Would I do the same reaction to protect my students as the professor if I am in the same situation?” “What I can do to help other? Though I just a student right now, I want to do something.” I don’t know what I should do or what I can do, so this is my goal. I knew this goal might be too far for me, but as the Mona Purdy who is collecting shoes and send them all around the world said “I always thought I was too busy to help others, then I started this and found myself wondering [what I’d been doing] all my life.” There is always enough time to help, if you want. So here, I just want to share the story and to prompt more and more people to help others. Not only the “World peace”, but also let this world full of love. My name is Alice. My goal is “sacrifice”.
【Talk about school】Anniversary celebrations in Lishan!
Hi everybody! Today is . My name is . The weather is getting pretty chilly these days, so everyone should add a cozy coat. Today, during this session, we will talk about the anniversary celebrations in Lishan Senior High School this year. It was held on November 3rd. If you missed it this year, don’t forget to join us next year. We will be waiting for you. This year there were a lot of activities, including the singing competition, the relay race, the class fairs, shows by other schools and the science and literature activities which are a characteristic of our school. In the science and literature activities, the students competed against each other when teachers from different subjects asked questions. For example, in the English Subject competition, groups were given vocabulary words and were asked to describe the word without saying it out loud. A member of the group had to guess the word while the other tried to describe it in English. Everyone had fun participating in this competition. This is the first time we held this ‘subject competition’, but I believe that it will become a trend, so when you visit us next year, you may also be able to participate in it too! Don’t you think that is so exciting? Well, our school anniversary this year was very successful and everyone sure had a blast!
That is all for our “Talk about School session”. And now, the next part is……chat room!
【Chat room】
Today, I want to share a book. I know most students don’t like to read, or do not have time to read. But it’s good for you to read some novels or poems in English sometimes. Oh~ ok~ but it’s not my point today!! Let’s get back to the book which I want to introduce , “Eats, Shoots & Leaves”.
It was written by Lynne Truss. She is a writer and journalist. She was writing about the punctuation in the article. Through sloppy usage on the Internet, in emails, and now in the text messages, we have poor skills at using punctuations. And a lot of net-speak popped up suddenly. Lynne dares to say, in her humorous, witty and very English way, it is time to look at our commas and semicolons and see them as the wonderful and necessary things they are. Not only scholars but everyone should pay attention to it. Punctuations are an everyday thing, causing us to make mistakes easily or forget them.It’s a different direction now that we can see the English literature. From a British writer, we can consider the problems that the foreign scholars care about in their culture. I want to put everybody up for reading this “Eats, shoots & leaves”. Though it might take you a lot of time to read it and also have to do a lot of hard work looking up words in the dictionary, but it’s worth it. Believe me! This is the first show of “Lishan Insight”. I hope you liked it and learned something from it. Please feel free to give us suggestions, and you’ll see improvement next time. Please send an email to us, or give us a reply on our blog. The email address is lishaninsight@gmail.com and our blog is http://www.lishaninsight.wordpress.com . We appreciate it very much, and will reply to your suggestion soon. Be sure to tune in next time!
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We are the students from Lishan Senior High School, Alice, Jocely and Cindy. We are all in 202, and we are goning to launch an English radio program “Lishan Insight” by using the Podcast. The main purpose of the program is to let everyone know our school better.The product of our project is a Podcast released twice a month with topics about our school. We planned to publish our product by putting Podcast on the web. The program would cover the news and photos in the school. It would have news not only from clubs, but also the news from all the students. For example, if you want to tell every student something, you can tell us and we will say it on the show.We will upload everything on a new blog, which is called “Lishan Insight”. And every show will be put on it. We hope you will like it and please give us some suggestions after every show.Our new blog: http://lishaninsight.wordpress.com
Youtube This is the homework Jocelyn and I did together.
O Dear Lord,
I will not ask you for an eternal life, but a rich being.
I will not ask you for wonderful weather, but the good mood.
I will not ask you for a beautiful appearance, but a cheerful smile.
I beg you,
Let me be the one who will control myself, not the one who will master others.
Let me be the one who will use today well, not the one who will fancy tomorrow impractically.
Let me be the one who will do my best in each thing, not the one who will gain in everything.
After all these things are mine, I pray, the health for my family, the happiness for my friends, and the peace for the world.
I, Alice, your child, will sing your glory and lie under it.
Amen9.13.07
September 18th
It has been the third week since I am in the second year of me life in the senior high school. On the first day of the new semester, there were four exchange students. I can’t remember all their names, but I just remember which class they stay this year. Drew is in 201, a cute and shy boy, David who lives in Quebec is in 203, a girl who can speak German is in 207, and Kelsey is in our class, 202.
Kelsey is an exchange student from America this year, she told us her hometown is Arizona, a place where is full of desert. She came to Taiwan in order to learn the culture and language of Chinese. She is kind of shy while facing a lot of people, for example, she said she is nervous on the first day of this new school, because she has to introduce of herself in front of a group of students that she doesn’t know before.
On the first English class in Taiwan, she was excited. She said “It’s the only subject I can do well here” after she said, I laughed. Of course, she did well and had fun in the English class. And because of her, we learned a lot not only the curriculum, but also something interesting around us; I guess so did Kelsey learn a lot.
These three weeks, everything seems new for her, Not only the food, but also the classmates, teachers……etc. Lately, we brought her to taste something new for her, like moon cake, sun cake, and “Dou hua”. (I don’t know how to say it in English, but we described to her) And guess what? She loves them!
In addition, I wondered whether she can learn Chinese well in this year or not. Since we try so hard to speak English to let her understand us, she loses the opportunities to learn Chinese. This question bothers me for a long time, and one day I can’t help asking her which one she likes us to speak best. And she said she hopes we can speak both. Speak in Chinese at the first and speak English after it. This way can help her realize what we are talking about and also help us improve the skills of conversation.
And today is the first typhoon for Kelsey in Taiwan. I wondered how she feels in this experience. Scared? Excited? I will ask her tomorrow……
For my dear classmates:
During the days we have worked, sang, and laughed together. And today, we finally finished the show “The drops of life”. I am so proud of you. All of you really did a good job. I was really happy today, and I had fun with all of you.
Remember the first time we reheard this script? We though we won’t act this show as well as the students in other countries. They did a lot of work and time to prepare this show, but we didn’t. We only have three classes a week to prepare it, or we have to spend extra time to practice in home. It is hard for a group of busy high school students in particular. Though we are so busy and “lazy” and we still didn’t take it seriously last week, we did well today. We make a big progress.
AS I mentioned in the last article, there is no leader in our team. Everyone is a part of the team. Because each of you worked hard, we have this achievement today. So to cheer on ourselves, let’s say “Hooray!” together.
By the way, I have to apologize. I did a lot of mistakes this time. Chris kept telling me the part I forgot. Yeah…I missed my lines. I am so sorry. In addition, I have to say, the best actresses are Jami and Sandy. They are hard-working and also helpful. But, of course, Winnie (You are so cute in this show. You action really like a small child), Eric (You let everyone laughed, thanks!), Kerry (Your mask of panda looks cute. Why don’t you wear both of them?), and Chris (You voice is awfully nice, and the end of this play, your speech is great.). So to add all of your care would take a whole year. I am really glad to be your partner and I am proud of you.
In the end of my word, I hope we can be work together the next semester. And I am expecting the next project we will do.
P.S. I am so sorry I forgot the teacher. You are the best “director”!! And thank you for your encouragement! We love you~ And fortunately, the principal didn’t come here to see the show…or we will be too nervous to play it……..
Alice 2007/6/11
Today is 9 th June, 2007. Two days before our performance. I don’t know my feelings in this moment. Nervous? Or worried?
This Monday, our teacher said something to all of us. I know she was very worried about our works, because we didn’t do a great job while we were rehearing. I felt ashamed. I didn’t play my proper role. I should be more active and pay more time and patience with my partners……
Last Monday, I said something bad to Eric, and I felt very sorry. But all I want him to know is this show is very important. Not just for me, but everyone. I mean…you can have fun and be relaxed during we are practicing, but you can’t make this show as a game.
In my mind, I don’t like to be a leader, because I don’t like to tell people what to do. But sometimes I have to. Perhaps you felt unhappy while I was telling you what to do, then… I have to say sorry. I hope you can understand I have to…
“There is no leader in our team, there are only partners.”
By the way, Jami and Sandy really do a great job. They are really hard-working and they help me solve a lot of problems. Thanks, girls! You are the best!
No matter how you worked on this performance and no matter how it will be on next Monday, I hope all of us can do a great job and do your best on that day. Thank you, everyone!!
Say good luck to yourselves!
Your partner Alice 6.9.2007
Our school, Lishan Senior High School will put on a global children’s play, “The Drops of Life” on June 11, 2007. It will be presented by a group of 10th graders who are in the English Project Class in Lishan Senior High School. The English teacher will lead her students to give everyone an impressive afternoon.
The original idea of this play came from ENO Programme. “The Drops of Life” has been created purely on a voluntary basis. The original manuscript is made by a Finnish writer and artist, Mr. Esko-Pekka Tiitinen. The music and the English translation are made by Mr. Mika Vanhanen, the co-founder and co-oridination of the ENO Programme. And the global premiere will be on the 29th of May, 2007. ENO Programme hopes people of every country pay more attention to the world environmental issues through this performance. They prefer to play this show for local people and youth. And let them understand how serious the world will be if we don’t protect the place we live. The main theme of the play covers environmental problems like desertification and the climate changes. The story is taking place in a dry desert. One day, animals form many countries are gathered by an owl. To solve the environmental problem, desertification, they decide to plan trees. They face some obstacles but get help from a little girl. She feels the joy of help and therefore can advise and help the animals to solve the problems. They also learn that they can do more if they work together. The animals, five in total, in this play represent mostly endangered species and come from different part of world. There are: Koala (Australia), Panda (Asia), Gorilla (Africa), Puma (America) and Owl (Europe). It delivers a message that protecting our environment is not certain people’s job. It’s an important issue for every race, every country, every city, and every person on earth. There are at least 64 countries, 147 schools joining this play, and this play is available in 14 languages and many to come now. These will be organized jointly with of The World Environment Day and The Tree Planting Day.As a member of the world, we hope the main theme of “The Drops Of Life” can be spread to all the people in Taiwan. We should take care of the place we live. And we have to think of more strategies about how to protect our land and our wild animals. In this way, we can have a better environment to live and so can our children. A clean and pollution-free world will be around us forever and forever.
More information:You can contact information here http://thedropsofilfe.blogspot.com/
Written by Alice (The student of Lishan Senior High School)
2007/5/7
Last week, our dear teacher told us that we will have a play on 4 May. The show is called” The drops of life”. It is a story anout tree planting and co-operation. We have prepared a lot of things since last Monday. And we practiced our scripts together and decided which part of job we needed to do today.
I am the team leader in this activity, so my job is making sure that everyone does his job, and I also have to write a press release for my team. I hope we can do a good job.
Soon, we have exam to prepare, but I know everyone will do their best and to have a goo job in this play~
Alice 4/30
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