Describe an accomplishment, event, or realization that sparked a period of personal growth and a new understanding of yourself or others.
Uploaded by rachellin0309 on Mar 27, 2017
To be creative and successful, I need to a have a different background, interest, and talent. This is what I believe, and also is my motivation to do everything in my life.
During my life, I’ve experienced so many special moments really affected me deeply because of my background. I lived in Shanghai before. I met a lot of people from different countries and became their friends. I got some culture shock from them, and they also gave me the diverse ideologies changed my mind effectively. The most important thing was to have a global mindset while you got in the trouble or began planning a successful and challenging future. Days past, I move back to Taiwan now. I am looking for what I really want to do and what kind of future I want to have. The global mindset brings me a lot of ideas that I need to have a different interest. My interest is to involve in different extracurricular activities to meet different people and I believe that I can learn different things from them. I realized that I have so many Japanese friends so I started to learn Japanese try to understand more about them. This decision impacted my high school life.
I won a competition which is to plan a trip for the backpacker in Kagawa, Japan and make a presentation. I spent a lot of time to know the history, the art museums, the people, the food and the views in Kagawa with my team. As the prize, we were entertained by Kagawa Prefecture Tourism Association. The competition explored my sight of Japan, the place I had never known and made me sure that the decision learning Japanese affected me a lot. The people in Kagawa just like the artist, the house, and the street will be painted and decorated by the resident. The guide told us that all resident know that they need to work a lot for appealing the feature of Kagawa. I saw how the Japanese love their country, their city, and how they show to the world the beauty of Japan.
Japanese is the language that I loved and I found my talent on studying languages, culture and so on. My Japanese teacher always said that a language is a tool for understanding a country about their history,...