2006/08/01 Language Evaluator's Report

Dear All, Thank God that we all survive the heat wave. Pls see the following to speak more impeccable English. Say: The thief broke into our house. Don't say: The thief run into our house. Say: I misplaced my key. Don't say: I put my key somewhere and can't find it. Say: The house was burgalized. Don't say: The house was robbed. There are some idioms to desdribe when a person dies. Eg: Kick the bucket, six feet under. When someone is dying, we can also say he's on deathbed. Jane, our good mother, used quite a few good expressions in her speech. Here are two of them. 1) I go extra miles to trake care of my kids. 2) The generation gap is creeping into our family. Finally, special thanks to the generosity of Maxwell, Keny, Amanda, Celine, Wade, Julia, Julie who patronized my suff, so that we raised NT1380 last night. The proceeds will go to our CTM fund. That means our future CTM will be able to get NT300 gift certificate. You know what they say: You reap what you sow. Peace & Love, Mayna

2006/08/01 Jane's C9 Speach

Don’t be controlled by anger

(Opening)

“Jane is a good mother!” You may have heard session masters introduce me this way. But I have a confession to make. I am a frustrated mother. I’ve always had terrible problems with my sons. I go the extra mile to help them to get rid of their bad habits and hope they put their heart into their studies.

I take responsibility for everything big and small on a daily basis. For example, in this morning, my son called out for help. “Mom, where is my uniform? I can’t find it anywhere. Can you help me?” So I put my chores aside and looked for the uniform. Even worse, sometimes their teachers complain to me how badly they behave in school. They don’t summit the homework or distract others in the class. It takes my breath away. But I can’t quit my responsibility.

Gradually, I find myself nagging a lot and losing my temper easily. I feel the generation gap is creeping into my family. One day when I saw my son made the room messy, one sock here and another there, I got angry again and blamed him. While I was yelling at him in front of the mirror, I saw myself; a grumpy face in the mirror. Then I looked at my son, he was scared and his head drooped. I think my anger might affect his character. I have to change my ways.

(Body)

Anger is a completely normal, usually healthy, human emotion. But when it gets out of control and turns destructive, it can lead to problems at work, in your personal relationships, and in the overall quality of your life.

Have you ever lost your temper? How do you feel? When you get angry, your heart rate and blood pressure go up, as do the levels of your energy hormones and adrenaline. A raging person usually doesn ’t listen to any explanations or advice, they are out of control and seem like volcano erupting. And often things happen that trigger their anger, and these things make them regretful all their lives. So we need to control our anger before it controls us.

However, knowing how to recognize and express anger appropriately can help us to reach goals. What makes you angry? It is best to find out what it is that triggers your anger, and then to develop strategies to keep those triggers from sending you over the edge. I have figured out how to make my sons listen to me. I set up of rules for them, if they can reach it, they will get more allowance. I made contract with them.

Are you too angry? What can you do when you feel angry? Try to divert your thoughts. For my experience, instead of telling myself, “oh, it’s awful, it’s terrible, I’m going to blow up.” I tell myself, “it’s frustrating, I’m upset about it, but it’s not the end of the world and getting angry is not going to fix it anyhow.” That way can help me get a more balanced perspective and cool down.

Give yourself a break. Make sure you have some “ personal time” scheduled for times of the day that you know are particularly stressful. If your life is full of stress, dissatisfaction can easily pile up until one day the dam bursts. So find something you enjoy and do it on a regular basis. Schedule it in! For me, I like gardening, so I feel peaceful when I water the flowers and trim the branches.

(Conclusion)

Since I started to learn to control my anger, my relationship with my sons is getting better and the generation gap is being bridged. We enjoy having small talks and they are thoughtful to share in housework. I just did a little change but benefited a lot. I am a happy mother now.

2006/7/16 Wade's C9 Speach

Who steal my sleep?

Yawn. Oooo. Wade, what did you do last night? Oh, I am sorry; last night I overwork until ten thirty, and I drift myself home, take a bath, rush to do a report for tomorrow, and rehearsal my c9 speech...and

Yawn is one of kind signs out of my body to notice me, not notice my friends, that Hi man, I am tired. I need to take a rest. Don't burn me out.

Every day before I go to work, I need to drive my daughter to 萬丹 for my parents in law to take care of her. It is only 30 minutes driving time; however, sometimes it is extremely dangerous time. My eyelids are getting heavy to close my eye; music in the radio is whispering to me. Strong coffee is like water. I am getting out of mind. I am driving, out of lane. And I awake to return my lane for seconds. Then I am driving, out of my lane; and I awake to return. Every day I stand in the cliff with my daughter. Feeling sleepy is dangerous sign out of my body to notice me, Hi man, I am tired. I need take more rest.

A teenager stayed at internet caf'e shop more than 54 hours, and he pass away.

A very hardworking student stay up all day night preparing for examination; He finished this big examination. And at the same day he finished his life after playing baseball with friends. There is no dangerous sign out of their body to notice. Because.

You know in Taiwan, there is more than three hundred thousand teenagers surfing the internet and the cyber game in the cyber cofe day and night.

Who steal my sleep? Who snatch our sleeping time? After busy working day until at ten in the evening we know we are supposed to have sweet dream, take a long break with our body, why we not yet go to bed? We prefer drinking big glass of strong flavor tea, coffee, or something to try to hold on our lasting awake instead of lying on the comfortable bed.

Watching 24-hours TV, surfing internet, overscheduled work not yet finished, preparing for report or test, talking with friends.. There is quite a few answers.

We don't value the sleeping time. We know sleeping is important. But we don't know that sleeping is the most important of our life. We are not as young as we thought; we are not as strong as we expected without enough sleeping.

Dear members, if you figure out that you feel sleepy or very tired the following day. Or still keep doing the same thing and not yet finished. Not able to write down your name fluently. Constantly nodding when your boss or teacher are staring at you. Your field of view is as thin as a line. Stop stealing and squeezing any second of your sleeping time.

2007/7/4 Darlene's C6 Speech

Watch Out! the Sexual Harrasser is by Your Side

(OPEN)

It is not easy to be a woman. When we face the robbery, we are worried about they will rob our wallet, and at the same time, we still have to worry that they will rob our beauty. Just like me, a woman with beauty and wisdom in one, these fears bother me a lot. Don’t laugh, because from now on, I will tell you two events that truly happen to me.

(Body)

As I remembered, the first sexual harassment happened when I was a third grade elementary school student. One day, one of my classmates and I were playing ‘Chai-Chai-Choe’, then a water electrician came toward us and said “Cute girls, there were two water taps broken and I have to fix it, could you helped me?”. At that time, we just thought of what teacher taught-Help is the joyful foundation, so we said yes and follow the water electrician to the washbasin. When we arrived there, two water taps were spraying all over the place, so he told us to hold the tap tightly and don’ t let the water come out. We did not hold the tap tightly, and then he started stand behind my classmate and used his big hands to hold my classmate hands and said “ You are not holding tight enough, if the water keep spraying out, then I can’t fix it”. I felt strange so when he came to me, I hold it very tight and not let him had the chance to hold my hands. He just kept holding our hands and did nothing about fix the taps, then the bell rang, I grabbed my classmate’s hand quickly and ran away from him. Because I notice that something down there was growing big, so I think he is not a real water electrician.

Second time happened when I was studied in St. Dowming Senior high school. In that period of time, girl’s boobs grew, especially some girls they were well developed. This would attract the high school boys. I remembered one day when I was riding my bike home, there was a high school boy rode his bike quickly passed by my side. But do you know when he passed by me, his hand was touching my boobs and grab them? It happened so fast that I couldn’t react immediately. I even didn’t shout out at that time, so I just let him disappeared in front of my eyes. Now, you know how difficult to be a woman. Female has many parts, such as boobs, butt, and even our ponytail can attract sexual harasser. Therefore, you have to watch out, they might come to you.

(Conclusion)

According to my experiences, I will point out three main points you have to pay attention. First, when you face the sexual harasser, you have to shout out with long and loud voice like “Fire alarm” to replace “Save my life” because fire alarm could attract more people. Second, use your high heel shoes or anti-spray to attack him. Third, leave that place as soon as possible. If you can cool down and not scare to fight with the sexual harasser, and you can let other people know you are having sexual harassment at the first time, I believe even you can’t stop it happens, but you can protect yourself. So be brave then you can face it without fears.

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.