The Last Class

This picture was taken at the last class in the Australia.
Everybody should wear the special clothes for the class.
Girls wore the colorful style and boys wore the girls' practicing cloths.

I remembered that the class was very funny and happy.
We laughed each whole class, but we still did the exercises very hard.
It was not very easy, because we really wore the funny clothes.

That day was the last day that I saw these friends.
I still remember that day clearily.
When we finished the warm up class, we had a performance.
After the performance, we had a big party.
I drunk to much red pull at the party and couldn't sleep all night.
It was the first experience that I couldn't close my eyes to sleep.

Maybe I was sad for the last day with them in Perth, and drunk too much red pulls were only an excuse.

I Can't Believe

I can't belivev that I can write down so many words.

Let me do a record.

This is an exercise for writing an email to English teacher.

I think that I can write it so fast and easily, because I wrote email to Bill sometimes.

Bill is my Ballet teacher in TNUA, and he is an American.

He came back to U.S for 3 years, and we always use email to contact each other.

Everything is needed to practice to become better.

I miss Bill very much.

He is a very good teacher, and his pieces changed my Ballet life.

Dear Ms. Tseng:

At first, I need to thank you for teaching us two semesters. You have lots of patient, and you are very nice to every student not only for our English but also for the life. Thank you very much.
The most important that I have learnt from this class is not afraid of writing English. When I corrected my homework again and again, I think I got advancement. Let’s talk about this semester. At the last semester, we only wrote the short paragraph. At this semester, we try to make it longer and become an essay in every exercise. We have learnt to write down what you see, hear, or feel in last semester and who I am. This semester is different. We started to tell about our thinking and logical division of our ideas. In addition, we learned so many transition signals, subordinators, and comparison signals to make our paragraphs longer and more beautiful.
I should spend more time in English. My vocabularies are too less and spelling is very bad. If I don’t have dictionary, I can only use the very easy words. Because it’s hard for me to remember every word’s spelling, I need so many times to read them. If I got lazy, the memory of spelling and word would disappear. I want to learn a way to remember the vocabularies and spelling easily. Of course, I should be more earnest.

Respectfully,

Chia- Yu Lu (Beryl) Dance Department Graduate student of NTUA
Beryl0422@gmail.com

Original Text

It's a hard work when I use the original text book to take pedagogy class this semester.

I know that's good for my Englisg, but I just feel very suffering.

When I did the online test today, I discovered something changed.

And I think it's a nice situation.

I can read the article faster and easily.

Even I still can't pass the standard (just a little bit not enought), I make progress in the score.

It's still very hard to remember so many words.

I still got very terrible spelling.

The Character in The Nutcracker

In the last writing, I talked about my grandmom.

At that time, I was in a performance.

Let's talk about that.

The Nutcracker is three of the most important classic Ballet drama, which composed by
Peter I. Tschaikovsky .

This Ballet is always danced in Christmas because the story is about Christmas eve.

The story is very cute, and nice for children.

I danced this Ballet in Act1 as a ballerina puttet or a little girl.

The ballerina putter is a soloist.

I'm very happy to get this character, but I always got nevous before dancing this.

This small piece was only 1 minute 13 seconds, but it got 12 turns at the end.

I was afraid of this difficult technique.

I was afraid of that I would fall down on the stage.

Luckily, I did that in the performance.

The costume was beautiful, but the make up was very terrible.

Let's watch the picture, and you will understand.

Someone told me that was like a terrible doll in Japan.

Do you guys agree about this?

Something about My Grandmother

My grandmother passed away in last Christmas.

At that time, I performed The Nutcracker at the National Theatre.

I couldn't perform at that day because my emotion was very bad.

Even I truned back at the next day, I thought I still couldn't put whole my mind on the stage.

My grandmother's funeral was my performance day, too.

At the most important day, I had to give up the performance.

This coincidence let me feel a little difference in my mind.

I still think that maybe my grandmom wanted to tell me something important about my life.

Maybe she wanted to tell me, dancing is not my all life, and I must take care about something important except dancing.

A day before two weeks, it was a raining day.

It rained cats and dogs.

After I finished rehearsal, and I came back home.

I talked to my mom about a dream.

I said I dreamed grandmom last, and she talked with me in our hardware store.

My mon said no wonder it was a raining day.

I just know it said if someone who passed away talks with you in your dream, it will be a raining tomorrow.

I can't believe that kind of unknow things, but I trust this thing with my grandmom.

Even I can't remember what she talked to me in the dream, I still look foward to dreaming her again.

I still miss her very much.

Homework:Qualities of a Good Dancer(NOT COMPLETE)

Qualities of a Good Dancer

If I want to be a good dancer, I think there are three necessary qualities. These qualities are only the basic for a dancer because dancer is a very hard work. First of all, I need to have a great passion for dance. I have to be very sure that I love dance and want to become a professional dancer. If I just like dance, it’s not enough. Dance is a long and hard process, so it can’t get a nice result very fast. Maybe I will give up very quickly when I can’t do well or feel tired with no passion. When I got passion, I will get more patience to practice every exercise or variation to the best.

In addition, the discipline is important, too. The most essential work for dancers is training body. Dancers use their body like an instrument. I need to practice every day, or I will go backward. I should take dance classes regularly.

Longing to perform

Homework: Self- Introduction

Self- Introduction

My name is Chia- Yu Lu and my English name is Beryl. I think that I am very lucky because I grow up in a nice family. My parents have a hard- ward store, and my older brother works with them. My family helps me a lot. They never push me too much in study, dancing, or making money. They tell me that I just need to work hard in everything, everyday, and be honest to myself. I really believe it and try to do the best.

I have learned how to dance since I was ten years old. It has been twelve years old for my life. At first, my family did not agree that I decided to dance. They worried about I cannot support my life in the future. After I entered Taipei National University of the Arts (TNUA), they believe that I can support my life with dance. I wish my family could be proud of me now.

Ballet is my favorite dance. That is why I join the Graduate School of National University of Arts (NTUA) because the school pats much attention to Ballet. The other reason is that I want to keep dancing and learn more knowledge about dance. I was in Dance Department of TNUA for seven years (three years for senior high school and four years for university) so I decided to join the Graduate School of NTUA. I think maybe I can get more passion in learning dance by changing to a new school.

I have a dream. I want to build a dance school for some students who love dance but do not have enough money. If I want to make it come true, I should be a good teacher first. I had been taught by many good teachers in my life. They help and teach me a lot. I need to be a good teacher like them and I will have abilities to make my dream come true.

When I Was In Australia

When I was in Australia, I got home sick very much.
I felt sad and up upset every day, even it was only 5 months.
I thought that I couldn't do well in dance classes and didn't really like to talk to anybody.

Perhaps I was afraid of leaving thease friends, so I didn't want to close them too much.

I really think that I was wrong now, I miss all the classmates there very much.

Maybe I can't meet them forever.

But everything and everybody is past.

I need to learn cherishing everything and everybody in the moment.

This picture was taken at Perth's beach..

I forgot the name of the beach.

I love the sea, it can make me feel relax.

When I saw the beach at that time, my homesick got an exit.

My smile was real at the moment.

Australia is a beautiful place.

I learned how to be independent in a strange place.