Second Fine

I walked in the living after work



There was a photo on the desk



A red car was took by the poice 



Yes, i was fined



This is my second fine so far



How much? I don't know



My mom paid that in the afternoon



My mom only mutter "I told you not to drive too fast. See, you got fine."



The limited speed on that road is 60 km per hour



60 km, and i really want to said """........""



I don't think those police officers will obey the law which they regulated



60 km per hour for a car driver seems "dragging"



Because I drove 75 km per hour



I got fine.......................



My brothers and I always can't understand why the roads in Taiwan always with 4 lanes



But limited speed usually regulated 60 km, only rare region set 70 km



I miss the the regulations in Germany ...........



Usually we drive 90 km on the 2 lanes ways



60 km compare 90 km



What a big difference

I am a really lucky girl

After eating dinner, I took some leftover to garbage can



My mom and uncle was standing outside and having a short talk



I murmured to my mom and complained I felt kind of tired



Then, I went straight to garbage can



On the way home, my uncle asked me why I decided to study abroad. 



I knew my mom had told him that I wanted to study oversea



In his opinion, I am almost 30 years old, and i should find a man to get married instead of studying abroad



I did not give any response to him ; I smiled and said learning is a good method to make my life completed 



While I was sitting in the kitchen and watching TV cartoon carelessly, my brother was slicing some fruit



I ask him suddenly, "Why girls can't attain higher education, why girls can't study in foreign countires?"



He smiled at me and said, "You don't need to worry that because Father will support you to persue your goal. "



Looking back my whole life, i have to say I am really lucky to be born in this family



Though we don't have too much money, but my parents always support their children's dreams with all their efforts



Maybe sometimes my mom muttered Father spending too much on us and do not think their retired life



I am lucky to have two brothers to back my dream now



Few years ago, my younger brother had a talk with me one day "you major in Translation, so i think you should keep persuing higer education degrees.  With a bachelor degree, I think that's not enough. "



Few weeks ago, I told him that I want to study abroad.



There is only one question he asked me , "What do you want to study when you are in the UK? Think about carefully? "



So far, in my family, nobody said you are girl so you can't persue higher degrees..... something about bababalala



But I know, my mom may disagree my plan........But she does not want to say it out



What can I do with her? Maybe, keep waiting...

How much i forgot?

Recently, i have been studying quite hard



But there is something really scared me



I forgot too many things i learned form professors who taught me before



It made me feel guilty and kind of sad



While I read the old CNN magazine, i found too many words i forgot



2002-2004 , I think i had reached the peak in learing English 



I can listen, read, speak, write easily (Now, i think i was too proud of myself. No good.)



After I graduated , i seldome read and find something good for me



I think i have learned enough for me to teach English because my focus is on kids English



Due to the thought, I found meself become lazy and I don't have too much passion on learning English 



Because the job I took was steady that I don't want to improve myself



This is really my weakness, and my shortness



From now on, I always do self-talk to me every morning



"You should do ALL-OUT effort to persue your future dream."



I set a goal to myself, IELTS, every part should reach 7 points



I really wish I could accomplish my goal

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Yesterday, i went back to university to take my documents 



It was early for me,so i decided to buy something for me to eat and drink



There is a cafe stand on the campus, I help myself order a hot -dog and a MilkTea without suger and ice



When i sat on the chair and open the magazine which i studied long time ago



There are sevearl words i had already memorzied before but now I totally forgot because those words I read and re-look into the dictionary again few days ago



Suddenly, I felt depressed 



How much I forgot?

 

學習計畫講座感想 （Thoughts of studying plan meeting）

申請前往英國唸書的人絕對跑不掉準備一些文件的機會



Apply for studying in the UK, people must prepare some documents



其中有幾樣是必備



Some of them are necessary



而我最頭大的就是--學習計畫



The big headache for me is "studying plan"



之前代辦中心很好心有給我一些資料



The staffs of UK center  are very kind to me, so they gave a lot of references



但是我只能純粹做參考，絕不能抄襲



I only can take a look on them , but defenitly can't copy



昨天早上，中心辦了一場講座，協助學生寫學習計畫



There was a meeting in the UK office which helped students write the studying plan yesterday moring



有了專人解說，果然很容易就抓到方向如何寫出自己的學習計畫



With their explaining of the study plan, soon i realized how to write my own study plan



不過，原本要講兩個小時的講座，因為有人遲到，延遲到10:30開始



Because some people were late for the meeting for amost half an hour, the two hours meeting began at 10:30 pm



也因為如此，我並沒有聽完所有的講座，最後，我是提早離開



Because of that, i have to leave there eariler without finishing the two hours meeting. 



心中有點難過



I felt sorry to the speaker



但是我還是很感謝他的解說，及其他工作人員的熱心



I still appreciated his great explaining and willings form the staff.

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關於昨天的講座，我對台灣學生有一點失望就是『準時』



About the meeting which held yesterday, i was very disappointed about the Taiwanese students' attitude of  "punctual"



既然是十點開始，就不要遲到，一方面會拖延到其他人，另一方面也導致英國講師對台灣學生的態度



The meeting began at ten in the morning, there was no reson for being late. On the other hand, it may leave bad impresson to the teachers



還有一點就是，台灣學生還是不善於表達自己



There is one problem among Taiwanese students, they still don't want to talk or ask questions in public



我自己的看法是，既然決定要出去唸書，最好能夠在各方面多多加強自己



In my opinion, i have decided to studying abroad , hence i will strenghten myself with all efforts i could do

回憶--水中之島(歐洲滿週年)

昨天是我們第二次前往歐洲的紀念日



Yesterday was the second  Europe trip anniversay



果然如我弟說的, 我可能沒辦法在九月20前寫完遊記



My brother had told me so, you may not finish the articles before September 20th , 2007



至今，我仍為寫完所有的遊記



So far, i haven't finished all the articles of journey in 2007



算很混吧！



Lately, i am quite lazy (i admitted about that)



有些美麗的回憶跟景點也只能留在我的腦海中



The sweet memory and great spots may leave on my mind and brain forever



卻無法以文字訴諸



Though i could not use word to describe what i want to say



難怪有些人曾經告訴我



No wonder somepeople had told me



你一定沒辦法全部寫完



you cannot write them out 



因為時間，加上我的懶人性格



because of time and my lazy personality 



不管如何，我還是盡量盡量寫出我想表達



No matter what, i will do my best to express what i saw and felt in europe

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當地人推薦我們若是可以的話，可以前來看這可愛的小鎮



Locals recommended us to come here and take a look of lovely town



這個地方，張國立的遊記曾出現過，兩三行文字吧！



The lovely  town had been described into three sentences in the book which is written by Mr. Chang



鎮小小，人不多，沒有太多了美麗景點



The size of the town isn't big, population is not too many and it does not contain too many attractive spots



但是這裡真的是很安靜，整個小鎮是有這條河流繞上一圈



The whole quiet town is surrounded the stream



沿著小河流繞行城鎮，不時可以看到鴨子嬉戲其中



Walking along the stream, people can see ducks enjoy their time as well







我可憐的老弟趴在地上，試圖幫他糊塗老姐檢起掉落和中的太陽眼鏡



My poor younger brother tried to pick the sunglasses from the stream because his absent-mind sister lost it 



<第一次嘗試以一行中文，一行英文寫，若有修飾的錯誤，告訴我一下！！>

（It's my first time to write an article like this. If there is any mistakes, feel free let me know.）