6/20 Jason's C10 Speech

C10 It Takes A Village To Raise a Child Jason Wu

"It Takes a village to raise a child." Ladies and gentlemen, have you ever heard of this idiom before? This idiom comes from Africa. I strongly agree with it. Educating children is important but whose responsibility is it? Teachers or parents? How about you and me? What can we do? People are social. In our life, we will meet many people and learn some things from them because we learn from each other.
When we read newspaper and watch TV news, what do you see? Normally you will see nothing but negative news, such like murder, kidnapping, scam, or celebritys' gossip. There is simply too much violence and sex. The crime rate has been more than double comparing with ten or twenty years ago. Funny thing is that as our people gain more education, they lose their moral. School girls date old men for money. Prostitutes demand work right in a public place. Since when have this kind of behaviors become acceptable? Prostitutes and gigolos are becoming popular? Is that a good thing?

There's a news story which goes that a man who likes watching strip shows so much that he spent a lot of time on it. One day, he was watching a strip show in a pub when he saw his daughter dancing as one of the stripers. Can you picture the scene? The daughter stood on stage, danced and took off her clothes. The father sat in front of stage. How pathetic! But whose fault is that?

Another news story. The police arrested a gang of motorbike racers (illegal ones) and they notified their parents to police station to bail their children out. Some parents would not believe that their kids are under arrest. They believe their children are good kids. Some of the parents didn even know where their children were. They thought their children were still sleeping. They had absoultely no idea what their children had been up to. What comes to your mind when motorbike racer whiz through your neighboorhood at night when you are sleeping? Oh! You might curse these scumballs. But again, who made them become motorbike racers?

In my C9 speech I mentioned that the strongest influence you can get is from environment. What is environment? In fact, it is people. A person will learn from different people at differnt stages of his life. When he is young, his role model maybe is his parent. After he enters school, his role model might be changed to his teacher. In his teens, his friend have more influence on him. We all play many roles in this society . We could be a friend, we could be a parent and we can be a teacaher. If we compare our society to a machine, each one of us is a little screw. We affect many people unconsciously. So we are the basic but essential element of this environment.

Back to topic, "It Takes A Village to Raise A Child", it means to provide a good environment for our children is our duty not educators'. If teachers strive to teach your children but you are not a good example, will your children turn out to be a good person? Can you expect others to do some things you don like to do? Will they obey your order? So everything starts from ourselves. We should improve ourselves and then influence our family. Many good families will consist a better society and then a strong country.

I have asked you one question in my last speech-- s TM a good environment??nbsp; Yes, I do think that TM is a good environment. I have seen many members got benefits from here. They improve themselves considerably. In this place, we learn from each other, we help each other, we grow day by day. Why don you share the benefit with your family and your friends or anyone you know? If you influence them and then they will influence other people. So this positive group of ours will become a great environment. Therefore I am sure that TM is a positive power to push our society to become better. Would you like to make a positive difference in our society? Let start from ourselves, let begin from here. Dear TM.

2006/06/06 Backy's C4 Speech

(Opening)
February 14, 2001 (in college)
I had an interview at a western restaurant this afternoon. It’s a nice restaurant. The interviewer told me that she was looking for someone who had related work experiences .I worked at a Chinese restaurant for two and half years. Yet I’m not sure if I am the one she wanted. I was also too nervous in that interview to ask when she was going to get back to me. If I take this job, I'll be able to learn more about western restaurants. Hope there weren't too many people who were interested in this job. Good luck, baby!

(Body)
Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.
When I was in my fourth grade, one day, I went shopping in a bookstore. I saw this diary on the shelf, and I couldn’t resist it as it's so gorgeous and came with a lock. Thus I would be able to write down anything and nobody would know my secretes. Since then I started to keep a diary.

Luckily, two days after that interview, I got the job I told you about. The work in the restaurant was like a piece of cake, because I had had experiences of servicing. Half year later, the boss was going to open a branch coffee shop which is nearer my school. I had a new assignment. I would be one of bartenders in that coffee shop. It made me so excited. I was going to learn more skills and things about beverages. And I found this diary which is called “About Coffee”. I filled my colorful life in it.

Jay is a new coworker. He and I both are main bartenders in this coffee shop. Sometimes we discussed how to make good coffee together. And we’re single, too. Other coworkers always guess that we’re couple. Even I just wanted to work hard on my lessons and beverages. Jay sent some messages when I felt sad or asked me when I was going to be his girlfriend. I knew that he was only joking. I also thought something. If we became couple, people at the coffee shop would gossip about it. So it's not a good idea to have office romance. I chose opacity, because I didn’t have the courage to handle this situation. It was gone on several mouths. One day, after work, all the coffee shop staffers went singing at KTV. And I saw Jay held Betty’s hand and they drank with the same cup. It’s enough. I would never confuse that how to deal with Jay and me. Even Jay and Betty broke up one month later.

I’m not a writer. I don’t always observe the behavior of everyone carefully. And I don’t have good imagination, either. I don’t know how to write some logics from a cup of water. So I just keep a diary every other day. What happened in these days and what did I feel in this situation. When I felt down, I’ll try to keep every bad feeling or do some self-reflections in the diary. After that, I will feel better. Even there are some dirty words that a good girl shouldn’t have. Oops, it’s a secret. So it’s not safe to tell someone about your secrets. There is one more important benefit that you can get from keeping a diary--you will be a better writer. That’s why I always got better grades from my writing class and even got the third grade by writing a short story.

(Conclusion)
When I was preparing this speech, I read my diaries again. It brings back many pleasant memories, and makes me feel how stupid I was. I saw that girl worked so hard at the coffee shop. She also has grown up from breaking up with a poor guy. Now, I also write blog on the Internet. It’s a great way to connect with friends. But they never know what my secret is. Hey, there is one more thing…
May 20, 2006 (several days ago)
So Jolin did a good job. Never reveals the relationship. Oops, it’s time to make an appointment with her and discuss about next plan.