毕业•声 | Guangzhou 좋아

I came to this school in 2016, my English was really poor at the first begining, and I haven't learnt Chinese before. The only few Chinese sentence that I knew was just very simple sentence, like counting numbers  "1、2、3、4….," "Ni Chi Fan Le Ma?" "Ren Shi Ni Hen Gao Xing". In the first year, language was the biggest challenge for me. 

I spent my first year to adjust to the new environment.  I am keen on learning new language. And the first thing that I want to achieve is my knowledge of Chinese culture. As we know, the world is getting internationalized. Language is an important tool to get to know the culture. It is cool to learn Chinese. And as long as I learn another language, it is easier for me to learn their culture. Making Chinese friends is a good way to improve my Chinese and learn Chinese culture. As for my English, I often talked with the foreign teachers and asked them to help with some grammar, slang, expressions. At this school, Spanish is also compulsory course. I like Spanish class and I got good score of Spanish.

When I was in middle school, I always just slept in classes, and failed in subjest tests. After I came this school, I made up my mind to make acedemic achievement. From 10th Grade, I tried my best to catch up classes, master every single subject and finish homework. At that time, my timetable was very tight. In the first two years, it is very often that I prepare the test until 2am. As a foreign student, I wanted to make much more effort to achieve high score than my Chinese classmates. In my second year, I started to prepare for TOEFL test. With the aim to achieve my target in limited time,  I made detailed timetable and study plan and made full of my extra time. I learnt 40-60 new vocaburies everyday. Whenever I learn new grammar I try to use those in the conversation or make new sentence. 

As regard to the application, Tracy and Mr. Park helped me and supported me a lot. Tracy gave a lot of suggestions about choosing appropriate universities, also helped me with advising my personal statement and essays.  Mr. Park is the Korean teacher in this school and he has been teaching here for 3 years. He often give me suggestions when I met difficulties. Now I got offer from George Mason Univeristy, without their help, I think it is hard to make it.

I like Guangzhou, it's cool that I can improve my Chinese if I stay here, and it feels like I can have more freedom living in China. Besides, the relationship between people is closer.  In Korea, students normally have to use "respectful words" when they talking with their teachers and seniors, however, I don't feel sense of distance when I talked with my teachers in here. Chinese food is awesome as well. My favorite Chinese food is Dim sum, Yangrou Chuan and Huoguo.

I think I became much more independent during these three years. I made a lot of important decisions by myself, and also I have improved my learning capability and made acedemic achievements. I am ready for the university life !