Entry 4

 Dear Meowmeow,

It was my birthday last Saturday! I really had a great time during the whole week. On my birthday, there was also a big event called Baochung Tea Festival. We had prepared for it for two weeks and we all wore the same clothes that day. The purpose of the event was to give some senior high school students or their parents some advice and instructions about our department. Many of my classmates played the role of instructors, while I was dancing on the stage as the performers. Those people were even trained to introduce our courses in English since there might be some foreigners. When I was preparing to go up the stage, all of my friends started to sing happy birthday song to me. That was really a wonderful experience. When the festival finally came to an end, my friends and I went to a restaurant near Taipei 101 and had a nice dinner together. I even bought myself a birthday gift secretly because I didn’t want to put pressure on my friends. All I wanted was everyone to be happy. After that, I enjoyed nice meals and celebrations the whole week. It felt like my birthday lasted for a week. Although last week was scheduled to be the mid-term exams week, I didn’t get much burden then since many courses I took had no midterm exams. However, some courses had three exams during the semester. That was very troublesome and it made me feel like going back to high school. I was really glad that we only had to have a meeting with the professor and talk about what we had learnt so far. I the meeting, my teammates and I talked a little bit about our learning degree of progress and what we had learnt in class. The teacher also asked us so professional questions but she gave us lots of hints because she was trying to make us understand the knowledge instead of making us fail. This was a way full of encouragement and positivity. The meeting was filled with laughter and active interactions. During the recent classes, I started to realize that the way we were taught in could really affect our own ways of teaching. If we were taught to be robots that only knew how to take exams, we might make our students in the future into the same thing. Last week, the teacher held a fun activity which required us to form six groups of twelve people each. She gave us an article about a celebrity and asked each group to read different paragraphs. After all of us finished reading, we had to form another six groups which contain at least one person from the former groups. Then, we got to discuss what we had read and listened to the rest of the story told by the other classmates. In this way, we didn’t have to spend that much time reading the whole article by ourselves. We could cooperate with one another and analyze the article more thoroughly. 

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