School Life

    I studied at Department of Applied Foreign Languages, National Tainan Commercial Vocational Senior High School (NTCVS).  Since I was a child, I have a crush on English. This is why I chose it as my major.  Not only did I pay close attention in class, but I also attend some English contest to improve my English ability.  For instance, I submit two English compositions to our school’s magazine.  Furthermore, with an eye of examining my English ability, I took General English Proficiency Test for the intermediate level and the level 2 of the Test OF ENGLISH ABILITY administered by the Test of English Ability Association, and I passed it. Besides, when I was just an 11^th grader, I attained the preliminary test of the high-intermediate level of GEPT, including listening and reading.  Apart from learning English, I have also studied Japanese in the cram school since I was a 10^th grader student, and I also listened to Japanese songs and watched Japanese animation cartoons to enhance my Japanese listening ability in my free time.

 In addition to studying hard, I also learned a lot from serving as a class cadre member and join in many activities.  I have ever served as class leader, vice class leader, assistant to Regulation of Practice & Counseling Division and assistant to English writing teacher in my class.  By being in charge of these positions, I got many precious experiences.  For example, I was extremely happy to be elected class leader of my class, but I was not capable of being a good class leader at the beginning of the semester, since I couldn’t handle everything very well such as express myself clearly as I announced something important to my classmates and leading my classmates to discuss important issues, and help them to reach a conclusion.  Yet, my teacher and my friends help me to undergo the tough moments; moreover, I learned step by step and did everything with all my might.  Finally, I made it to be a responsible leader, and the most valuable lesson I have learned is that if you want to please everyone, you would probably please no one.  Had it not been for the opportunity of being a class leader, my leadership ability could not have improved so much; also I wouldn’t grow and become more mature.  Leading a class was a little difficult for me at first, but I was glad that I learned so much from serving for my class.

Family Background

   My mane is Meng-Ting Tsai, and there are four people in my family.  My father, who is a salesman in a direct-account company, joins every activity in positive attitude.  My father teach me that doing everything with positive attitude and never care too much about the result but what I learn from the process, and that if I fail unfortunately, I can take it as an experience and do my best to carry out my goal next time.  My mother is a career woman, working in Cheng Kung University.  On every summer and winter vacation, I study in my mother’s office; therefore, I see that she works efficiently and interact with the students well.  What I learn from my mother is that I have to make deliberate plan before I do everything so that I can finish efficiently.  I also have a younger brother, who is a junior high school student. He is very naughty and always makes my mother angry.  But he is very smart and often does operation and art works at home; additionally, he often read science magazines to achieve abundant knowledge.  His diligence to achieve knowledge is what I can learn.  I think I’m lucky enough to live in a harmonious family.

autobiograph-sample two

I am Tao. My English name is Angela. I am 17 years old. I am from Taipei First Girls' High School. I come from a well-to-do family. My mother passed away when I was in my first junior high year. My father is a computer engineer and remarried three years ago. My stepmother is an elementary school teacher. So I have a sweet stepbrother, who is now in the sixth grade. My grandparents live with us as well. My family get along pretty well.

Throughout my school years, my academic results have always been pretty good, except in the second half of the first year and the first half of the second year. It is because my mother's death was such a trauma to me. It took me more than a year to get better. My father was afraid that I would turn bad after that. So he encouraged me to join many extra-curricular activities. He sent me to piano class, ballet class and art class.

His purpose was that through music and art, I would find a way to release my pain so that my heart would be comforted. I am very grateful to my father's caring and thoughtful consideration. Ever since then, music is my spiritual guide and gradually becomes my most intimate companion. I then practice the piano very hard and make up my mind to become a pianist.

In my high school years, I have taken any chance to participate in school activities. I join the choir and jazz club, both clubs offering plenty of contests and performances for many occasions. We have won many contests and had been invited by the Mayor to perform in City Hall. I am also the member of art club, for I enjoy sketching and painting very much.

Every time when I have chance, I would go to the music theater to listen to symphony and orchestra performances. There is not once I would not be moved by the music. I really admire those musicians' talent, passion and dedication to music. I wish one day I would be able to become one of them, performing on the stage and touring around the world. That's my passion and expectation to myself. I hope you would give me a chance to fulfill it.

autobiography-sample one

     I am Lin. Sophia is my English name. I am 18 years old, studying in a public high school. I come from a very happy middle-class family. My father works in a bank and my mother works in a bookstore. I am the only child in the family; however, I am not the so-called spoiled child. My parents have trained me to be independent since I was a child.

Throughout my academic years, I not only get good grades but also am very active on sport field and involved in school club activities. I play volleyball and enjoy the team spirit we have. I have joined the drama club and participated in many English speech contests. I really enjoy participating in school activities; I not only make many friends and have lots of fun but also gain many different valuable experiences.

I had been the class English assistant for almost three years. I liked to discuss and share the experience of learning English with people a lot. We often read China Post and Time Magazine then discussed their contents, the word usages and practice speaking English by discussing the articles we read. In the beginning, we found it hard because we could rarely understand the content, but we encouraged each other not to give up. Gradually, we had made improvement. We were so excited. Then the group discussion of English books and magazines became one of the most enjoyable thing for us to do every week. I won the first prize in the school English speech contest in my second year of high school and many of my English articles had been put on Students Post.

My fondness for English has been developed since my childhood. It is lonely to be the only child. I had no one to play with when I was a kid. My mother knew about this so she brought me with her all the time. Hence, bookstores became my childhood playground and books have been my playmates. Mother would show me those fancy books with cute illustrations on them. Firstly drawn by the pictures, I was curious about these strange symbols called “words.” This was my first contact with English. As I was interested in knowing what those symbol mean, my parents taught me a bit. As they felt that I was eager to learn, they got me an English tutor. Thanks to my parents, I have advantages in learning English by starting at a really early age.

My interest in English brought me to the world of English literature. I have been enchanted by this creative world, so I decide to major in English literature. My aim is to explore the world of literature and the world of great writers, opening my eyes and cultivating my mind through this great world of literature.

Besides English literature, I also have a wide range of hobbies. I love reading, writing, music and movies. I have my active side as well. I enjoy swimming, hiking, traveling and getting close to Nature a lot. I believe we must achieve a sense of balance in our lives. As to my personality, I am creative, optimistic, determined, willing to help others and down to earth.

I want to be one of the literature students who has the privilege of studying great writers’ works and exploring their inner worlds, their outlook of lives, their roles as learned scholars and their influences on the world. I hope I can also make some contribution to the awareness of culture and literature in our society since its importance has been neglected.

Best of the semester -3

That students should wear uniform to school or not has been discussed for a few time.  Majority of people regard that students don’t wear uniform to school as liberty and a policy the authority concerned should implement, while what I think is that wearing uniform to school is more convenient than wearing leisure wears.  It’s because students don’t spend too much time chosing which clothes they should wear before going to school.  If students dress in leisure wear to school, it may take quite a little time to those who want to look more beautiful and handsome to decide the clothes, which contributes to them to go to school late.  Additionally, some continue to argue that students don’t have to wear uniform to school, but the condition now in every school backs up that students wear uniform to school looks more regular and can be identified.  If students get lost while going field trip; the police can help find them more easily.  Moreover, if students wearing uniforms were attacked by the gangs and passed out, passersby can call the school to help make contact with their parents by telling their student numbers.  Last but not the least, no one can argue against the fact that if students wear uniform to school, they can be safer.  That is, if a stranger or a thief runs into a school, securities, teachers and military instructors can catch him immediately before he hurts students, makes school into a chaos and commits crimes.  Taking into account all of these points, it should be clear that student should wear uniform to school.

Best of the semester -2

     My favorite movie is Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows, a science fiction, which is about how the main characters Harry, Ron, and Hermione figure out the clues left by Albus Dumbledore to struggle with Lord Voldemort.  The movie is filled with magic, adventure, love and strong friendship between each other.  I am fond of this movie, for I learn a variety of precious things from it.  To begin with, it takes guts to accomplish every mission.  Since the three main characters are brave enough to defeat the demon, I hope I could be more courageous like them to fulfill significant tasks, face the difficulties, and challenge plenty of adventure to improve myself .  Additionally, mutual trust is the key to the success.  In the movie, the three charters trust each other in the war so that they can win.  As far as I'm concerned, if I believe that my teammates can defeat other team on the relay race, I will be more energetic and there will be more likely to win the race.  Last but not the least, it is of crucial important of doing the best to achieve the goals.  Harry figure out the clues and fight the Voldemort with all his effort.  As an old saying goes, “Where there is a will, there is a way.” implementing my goals with all my mind instead of giving in to obstacles, maybe someday all my goals will be carried out.  As what are mentioned above, not only do I learn many things from this movie but I get lots of pleasure from this movie as well.

Best of the semester -1

     I was a hardworking athlete and once won a championship in a race, but everything changed owing to a terrible accident, which occurred on my way home after the race.  I was hit by a truck and passed out immediately on account of shedding too much blood and breaking one of my legs.  Although I was sent to the hospital at once, I lost my consciousness for at least one month.  After I came to myself, I felt depressed on everything, for I found I can’t do anything well with only one legs.  Moreover, I had negative attitude toward my life, trying to kill myself.  One day, however, while I was fooling around in a wheel chair in the hospital, there was an elder man, who lost one of his legs, trying his best to walk with a stick.  Although he fell down again and again, he never gave up.  A thought suddenly came to my mind that I should practice walking instead of keeping feeling depressed day after day, and then I made up my mind to practice step by step and take part in Olympic Games of physical disabilities five years later.  Finally, my efforts paid back and I won a championship again.  As the proverb goes, “Where there is a will, there is a way.”  If I tried, there must be some opportunities for me to succeed.