It’s another week passed by without anything particular, but I was quite touched when one of my students shared his good news with me. J. had a new baby boy and it’s a tradition to give people some glutinous rice, red eggs, and cake. Although it’s a small gesture, it just touched my heart.
I guess I’m this kind of person, easily affected by petty gestures and thoughts. I hope to keep in touch with all these great students and some day I will be more than honored to share my success and happiness with each one of them.
What happened to all those high school buddies, I reckon? Is F. still in New York doing his PhD or has he already come back? Gravely influenced by a mother who was so arbitrarily dominant in the family, I wonder what C. has become now. As for my good old friend, A, I hope he has found his love. I recall all those hot summer afternoons, we rode our bikes, wandering in alleys and trying to explore our small hometown. I was the one who refused to take the college entrance exam but had to give in at the end. Those silly days!
The course of life is inconceivably intertwined with unknown pathways, which makes me ponder where my own road would lead to if I hadn’t had the courage to challenge authority… I think I would probably have become the scientist I long before desired to be, really!
What were my neurons doing when I suddenly heard a very old Taiwanese folksong early tonight ? The song triggered my deepest memory and I thought to myself why it seemed so facile to understand the lyrics although I hadn’t heard the song for ages. Were those data hard-wired in my brain and I didn’t need to try hard to locate the stored info? My question is why one cannot use the same mechanism in second language or third language acquisition? How can we unravel the mystery and come up with a pragmatic application to enhance people’s foreign language learning? There must be some ways, I strongly believe!
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