Metric-- Gimme sympathy

Get Hot

Get too close to the flame

Wild open space

Talk like an open book

Sign me up

Got no time to take a picture

I'll remember someday

All the chances we took

We're so close to something

Better left unknown

I can feel it in my bones

Gimme Sympathy

After all of this is gone

Who would you rather be

The Beatles or The Rolling Stones

Seriously, you're gonna make mistakes,

You're young

Come on baby play me something like

Here comes the sun

after back to Taiwan...

回台灣這一年，學習到很多東西，因為有失敗有沮喪，所以後來才更加知道有夢想有理想是一件很很棒很美好的事，但是空談不去實踐，再偉大的夢想都只是存在白日夢裡。因此，我了解到一件很簡單又很平凡的事情，要實現妳的夢想，妳必須要把每一件平凡到不行，簡單到可以的無聊小事做好，接著為自己所相信、該堅持去做的事情認份地向堆砌磚牆一樣，一個步驟又一個步驟的反覆著進行，直到事情展現出成果，那就是它的成就。

關於學生的事務，如果是我可以幫得上的地方，大致上我都不會覺得厭煩。看見他們可以享受美術課、喜歡美術課，開始嘗試一些媒材實驗，我就覺得非常滿足。如果佈展後可以讓小朋友獲得滿足的成就感，其實就是一件很圓滿的事情。 講這些好像有點濫情，但是老實說有時候他們開心又興奮的感覺就會覺得自己有所貢獻。

大風大浪的起伏之後，我學會謙虛、不張狂，整體上還是以往的小P，但是多了一點成熟，也許現在才開始有點了解 "活在當下 " ，並且不張狂地，一點一點，平平淡淡的去逐步將理想完成。

實習去兼課，有機會去碰到跟自己以往教書環境完全不同的學生，也因為這樣好像更真實看到不是在有錢學區的孩子們對自己的掙扎、迷惑，不過還是很開心跟他們一起度過。最大的回饋，就是聽到導師對我說，我們班的學生都很喜歡上美術課，某C同學有一點學習障礙，但是它仍然會努力嘗試，並將我在美術課指導他的步驟學起來，他在聯絡簿上寫：雖然畫得不好，但是至少我有勇氣嘗試。"

現在不會也不想說什麼大話，最希望自己可以穩紮穩打地去實踐，並好好珍惜自己活著的每一天，該做的事要做，該完成的事努力去完成，想追求的目標就去追求，好好把握青春並用力地活著! 不要太過美麗虛幻，但要真實。

then, you will know you have to walk a step on the road.

Peace will come after the storm.

Pupils 'must look away to think'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/education/4602178.stm

Pupils should be encouraged to look away from their teacher when answering a question, scientists have found.

Far from daydreaming, children who avert their gaze when considering their response to a question are more likely to come up with the correct answer.

Stirling University psychologists found that, when looking away, five-year-olds answered 72% of questions well.

But when children had not been instructed to look away when thinking, they answered just 50% correctly.

The experiment, conducted among 20 children aged five, backs up other studies carried out by the Stirling researchers, which suggest that by the age of eight, children instinctively avert their gaze when considering a response to a question.

The mistake adults make is to interject too quickly  Dr Gwyneth Doherty-Sneddon

Dr Gwyneth Doherty-Sneddon from Stirling said taking the gaze away from the human face was very important when trying to concentrate.

"Looking at faces is quite mentally demanding," Dr Doherty-Sneddon told the BBC News website.

"We get useful information from the face when listening to someone, but human faces are very stimulating and all this takes processing.

"So when we are trying to concentrate and process something else that's mentally demanding, it's unhelpful to look at faces."

Adults 'should wait'

The researchers believe teachers and parents often mistake "gaze aversion" for children failing to understand a question and do not give them enough time to compose an answer.

"The mistake adults make is to interject too quickly, they need to try and hold back," said Dr Doherty-Sneddon.

"If they avert their gaze, it's worth waiting because they are probably trying to come up with something.

"There is this idea of 'look at me when I'm talking to you', but it should be okay to look away at some point of the interaction."

If a child looked blankly at an adult when asked a question it was a good indicator that the question had not been understood, she added.

The research, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, was published in the British Journal of Developmental Psychology. 

Page last updated at 15:16 GMT, Wednesday, 11 January 2006

Ielts: writing task 2 #Practice_1

Some experts believe that it is better for children to begin learning a foreign language at primary school rather than secondary school.
Do the advantages of this outweigh the disadvantage?

Recently, whether children should be taught a second language at primary school or secondary school has been receiving increasing attention. Some educators believe it is positive to expose children learning a foreign language early while others hold opposite view. Generally, I tend to agree with former perspective. The present shall put some reasons to clarify my position.

To begin with, according to the development of human’s brain, it appears that young children are easier to be modeled than teenagers. Because kids’ brains are still growing which lead them having more developing areas, making them to have higher potential to learn a new language than adolescents. Moreover, the important period of expanding linguistic ability is during the time of primary school. That is to say, learning a second language at primary school allows children to be able to pronounce a foreign language naturally with less influence from their native speaking. Finally, comparing pupils with juveniles, pupils are more likely not afraid of making mistakes form learning. With this quality not only can help children to reach a higher learning stage but also can build their confidence of learning a new language.

Although opponents consider that the achievement of learning foreign language is not associated with the age, there are more and more education researches show the benefic effect of learning a second language younger.

In conclusion, I approve the stand that a foreign language should be taught at primary school, and it has more advantages than disadvantages.