Reflection

How time flies!

This semester is going to end. But I still remember the exam I took before registration which is the first meet for me to see Robyn; I still remember the orientation class in Kimmel Center which is the place I met Tara and Koyako, and the first day to class I spent time to find the Woolworth building. All of those scenes appear in my mind clearly,    they seems happening just a few days before.

Here, in New York, I’ve learn much. I appreciate that I know my classmates who are nice, creative, brave, intelligent people. I am lucky that I get kind and professional teachers who are Robyn, Tara and Raul. I am glad to see the progress I made and how adaptable my life here.

The most progress I make is writing. Before I take classes in ALI, I hate writing. I don’t know what to write and how to write. Of course, I don’t write except I have to write for the exams. But now, the most obvious contrast is I don’t feel writing is a big matter. I can write easily in not a long time. I know what I should write at each part of my essay and I know how to organize it. The only thing I feel hard is that I can’t use fit words to express what I exactly want to say. I wrote an English poem which is the first English poem in my life. It will be significant. When I am old I will read it again and remember this period of my life, my classmates and my teachers.

I think I have more disadvantages than the progress I’ve made. I can’t speak English to native speakers fluently. I can’t easily understand native speakers. I have to organize the sentences before I talk. My vocabulary is poor, I always want to use advanced words in my essay, but there is none in my mind. For example, I am tired of expressing something good to only use the simple words such as “good”, “nice”. This is what I need to make up.

Overall, I harvest a lot, not only the progress in English study, but also the experience in New York, and all of you.