Friday, February 20, 2009

IN THE ENGLISH SALOON

Today i was invited again to another function, English corner. its about Language(English) students who debate every Friday on some selected Topics to improve their oral English. Before i arrived the place i was wondering what type of debating are we going to participate and what kind of people am gonna meet em there, maybe lecturers, ordinary students or ? since i had no briefing and i was invited by my friend then i decided to part of them and also make new friends.
When i arrived their, not many student had arrived so i thought like maybe its waiting area and we will go to another place. its quite beautiful area with excellent interior design, i liked how the woods were connected together, besides Nice creativity. after few minutes later more students arrived and we began the debating by first introducing another foreigner who is actually University lecturer and later myself, i was very nervous and couldn't express myself as expected, i don't know why i was feeling that much pressure since am quite used to this kind of programs.
The students were very welcoming and happy to see me join them in the debate. I met new friends, hardworking students willing to change their language barrier, some of them were quite speaking good english. the topics were short and clear, it was interesting since they want to have short debate only to improve their oral language.
The least controllable difficulty is language itself. That there are so many languages--some of which are extremely structurally different from each other--makes it seem that language is not a reflection of native thought processes. Instead we must force our thoughts into the restrictions of our language. everyone had a paper written on the topics with few question, i reviewed it and explained my views and raised my points.
sometimes words get funny but thats how students should pace the gab of difficulties, you will never learn until you know their is no shame in seeking knowledge.
i was given this small piece of kinda doorbell hangs, actually i cant remember the name but my friend told me about it, anyway i forgot it. its beautiful and am hanging it on my doorbell, i like it.

1 comment:

Zelda said...

It is called Chinese Knot, "中国结."