Kelen: Interview with a Music Teacher about the Olympics

Du Xiajiao is a music teacher I met in Beichen Shopping Mall. She is a nice lady. Before I met her, there were several people did not want to receive our interviewing. When we met her and talked to her about our interviewing. She said she would like to do it. I was super-happy. You will see my happy face in my picture.

Kelen: What’s your name?

Teacher: Du Xiajiao.

Kelen: What do you do for work?

Teacher: Music teacher.

Kelen: What is the great changes in Beijing Olympics?

Teacher: The environment of Beijing.

Kelen: You must be proud of our country hold the 29th Olympic Games?

Teacher: Of course. Beijing is my great hometown.

Kelen: Which sports will you follow most in the Beijing Olympics?

Teacher: Water sports are my favourite and I always go swimming with my friends.

Kelen: Which friendlies do you like best?

Teacher: Jing Jing(Panda) but all of them are lovely.

Kelen: Me too! I like panda best! Thank you. Goodbye~

Kelen – My Tutoring School: The New Oriental

It is obvious that English is the most popular language in the world. English is really useful in our daily life. Therefore China is running fast with this language. There are more foreigners in Beijing now that in the past, so we must learn well it.

Having a great job depends on the level of education that we have, and because of this Beijing has been the home of many new English schools. The most famous is THE NEW ORIENTAL.

I’m a student of this after-school training program for English.  I enjoy it very much.  This is a training school that I go to on the weekends for additional tutoring.  The teachers in the Neworiental are all very popular. They are humourous and cool!

In the class we have a cheerful time and learn a lot.

The New Oriental School’s motto is “Language is Power~!” This is picture below is my English teacher and I after one of my classes.

Linda – My Dear Class and an Interesting Story

My dear class is just like a big family. Our head teacher who acts as our father is not only kind, but also strictness. In our class, boys and girls are like brothers and sisters. I will tell you a funny story that happened one day.

One day one our Chinese teacher told us she would take an exam, because we had done a lot of work we were not pleased. Some students even got ready for sleeping. Tom couldn’t help saying “Teacher, do we must have it? Crazy!!!” With a proud expression, the teacher said nothing. Another student said “If you order us to do that, I will…..” intimidating. “So?” the teacher answered. At that time we all expected he could succeed so that we could not have the exam. Silence……..

“So? What will you do I wonder….” “En… I will do what you want us to do exactly ….” Haha The teacher smiled and we all made joke on him. Finally we did the test at the end of the day….as she wanted..

Well, you know our Chinese teacher is very young. We treat her as our elder sister and she treats us as younger friends. We often play some jokes on her. And she always know how to deal with us

Email – From Yimei to Email: Why My Name is “Email”

My name is WangYimei and my English name is Email.  You may think my name is strange so now i’ll tell you the story of my English name.

When I was young, my mother gave this beautiful name to me, Yimei. I really don’t know how she thought of this name.  But several year later the Internet being all the rage of China and the word “E-mail” became more and more popular.  So then at that time, my friends all thought my name should change from my original name, Yimei, to “E-mail,” because Email sounds so much like my name “Yimei.”   So I realized what foresight my mother had in giving me my name at a time when internet e-mails were just getting started in China.  I think I’m so lucky to get two beautiful names from my mother.  oh I love my mother!

In fact I also have had other names before internet e-mail was used by Chinese people.  I used to  study in a foreign language school in Beijing.  Every student always has an English name because our  foreigner teachers could never  remember our Chinese names correctly.  So the first time I saw my teacher she give me a cute name, Fairy.  But i thought this name was so ordinary that I wanted another name.  So the next teacher from Canada gave me the name, Diana.  I used this name for half a year and then eventually thought this name sounded too old. So I kept looking for a new name.

My third teacher at the foreign school was from USA and he gave me a good name, Joe.  But a few days later I began to feel this name sounded like a boy’s name!  So i changed my English name for many years until I realized that Email would be a perfect name.   Although I think this is a strange name in the foreigners’ eyes.  But I like it because I think I was already positioned to take that name when my mother assigned me the name, Yimei, that phonetically sounds like Email.

So I have used it for many years and still like it!  Beyond the fact that Email sounds like my Chinese name, the name has its own merits also.   For example, in your life you probably have come across many names and you have also forgotten many of those names.   But I’m sure if you met a girl named Email  you would never forget that name and it would be one that you remember for many years!  But of course if you met you wouldn’t just remember my special name but also my special individuality, right?:)