2008/11/18 Tina Chang's C1 Speech

Hi, everyone! My name is Tina. I’m now a senior in National Kaohsiung Normal University. I major in Chinese Literature. Talking about my personality, I think I am a brave girl and like to challenge things that people think I can’t do. I’ve joined Taiwanese speech competition even though I can’t make any Taiwanese sentence. I wrote down the speech in Chinese and then memorized by listening how my dad pronounce. When my friends heard I was joining a Taiwanese speech, they were surprised and said, “Tina! What are you doing? You should join English speech! Why are you joining in Taiwanese speech?” Well, I’ve already tried English speech when I was 13 and I won the first place. I just wanted to try something different.
I have worked in summer camp in America with only one Taiwanese girl. The other co-works came from everywhere around the world. We worked together for almost 10 weeks. Also, I traveled alone to New York and Philadelphia by guide book. It was an unforgettable experience. I met a lot of nice people and got a lot of help from them. I remembered one time I was going down the road and suddenly came up a man. He asked me, ”where are you come from?” When I answered Taiwan, he was so exciting and said “OH! Cheng Ming Wang! Did you go inside Yankee’s stadium and watch the game?” Actually I was not that interesting on baseball so I answered “yes, I watched his game on TV!”
Besides of brave, I have a benevolent feeling towards all animals. Zoo is one of my favorite places. I can spend one day doing nothing but just looking at lions. There is a can with feeding stuff in my motorcycle just in case to feed stray cats. I once saved a 2-month big stray cat. He was so small and sweet. I helped him to find a new owner. The animal I am keeping now is a dog. Her name is Chapi. She was a stray dog. I found her few weeks ago. She’s nice and sweet. She doesn’t bark unless necessary. Stitch is her favorites. Her habits is to observe what everyone is doing just like an obason(歐巴桑). She follows me everywhere around my home and wants to join everything happened. It is good to have her as a companion. I feel warm when I see her waiting for me by the door.
There are still a lot of things that I can share with you about myself. However, I only get 4 minutes to share. It is nice to join Toastmasters. I hope I can be friends of every one of you. Thank you for your listening.