A Person Who Has Made a Difference: My Grandmother

My grandmother was elected one of the Exemplary Mother of her community in 2005. She lived in a small village after she married with my grandfather in 1940. Grandmother raised six children alone since my grandfather passed away, while my father was 6 years old. She made a living by selling vegetables, fruit and breeding a wide range of poultry.

After all the children grew up, she promoted and participated aggressively for Mother’s classroom in community, where the ladies can gather for learn about cooking or singing. At the beginning, most of people did not support her ideas or give any feedback warmly, but she never gave up persuading everyone to attend it. Few years later, most of women appreciated her for organizing the classroom that enriched their life. Furthermore, at her old age, she devoted to helping not only the poor but the senior citizens who living alone, as well. The community would like to express the thankfulness for her dedication, by awarding her honor of Exemplary Mother of year 2005. I deeply believe she worth to this honor.

Unfortunately, she passed away on last Dec., however she would be my most admire and most beloved grandmother in my mind.

My Favorite Festival

Lunar Chinese New Year is my favorite festival. It’s the most important of the traditional Chinese holidays in Taiwan. On the Lunar Chinese New Year Eve, all the family members are supposed to come home for a dinner and talked about what has happened during last year.

When I was a child, I love this festival very much owing to not only I can wear new clothes and new shoes, but also I can get the gift-money from the relatives. And all the children can let off firecrackers, play cards…and so on together.

However, even if some people have no respect for this festival nowadays, I still expected the lunar Chinese New Year coming, due to it’s my turn to give gift-money to my parents to thank you their take care meticulously. The most reason which I love this festival is that it is the time for families to get together.

Introducing Myself

I would like to introduce myself, my name is Miranda Lo. There are four people in my family, father, mother, younger sister & me. We live in Xinzhuang together.

Now, I am assistant for marketing manager of Machinery Company which is based in Wuku. I was an employee in this company since 2006. I love my job very well, owing to I could get a lot of experience from deal with different kinds of things in this job. Although sometimes the manager is unreasonable or emotional, that will not reduce my passion to do my job due to I told myself that “don’t let others wording knock down your faith”.

Traveling to all over the world especially to Germany, Switzerland is my dream. I have been there four years ago to attend the exhibition; I love their scenery, fresh air and life. The people are very kind and sincere. I would like to go there again and be a backpacker so that I can do anything I would like to do and go anywhere I would like to go. I hope my dream will come true in the future of years; therefore I must improve the ability of my English during these two years before I go there and be a backpacker.