Two Competitions, a Time to Learn (cont.)

Finally, I’ve done with the competitions. For those who don’t know what I am talking about, I am just referring to this entry.

So…

The result is… *tam tam*

I did enjoy them. I learned a lot. Not only learning the language itself, but I also learned how I could appreciate every single thing I had gone through. Every single thing… Mmm… Let me tell you my supposedly short story.

I received a great great help from the time I made my script until the time I performed my speech. My Japanese friend and my ex-language partner helped me in making the script. My friends and classmates were more than support to me. On top of all that, it was my Sensei whose encouragement motivated me. Honestly speaking, he was the most dedicated teacher I’ve ever met in my life. I really consider him as a good teacher, and yet he still does things that, I personally think, are just more than enough. Anyway, he did maximise my one-week preparation to the best preparation I ever got どうもありがとうございました。

My Chinese speech was literally more dramatic than the Japanese one. Apple suggested me a topic that I thought it was really interesting until I realised I didn’t know what to write on for 3-minute speech. So, I asked Apple to make the script and when she gave it back to me… Wow… I didn’t understand at all. I was then painfully translating it word by word and character by character. It took me two days and I still couldn’t understand the whole meaning of that script.

I was just thinking how I was going to practise my speech and perform my best in less than a week. My friend had even already started to memorise the speech. And me… still struggling with the script. I was about to cry for no reasons (yes, it was silly indeed). I said to Li-Shan that I might have to withdraw from the competition. There was no enough time to prepare nor to change the topic.

But ya… to cut a long story short, I didn’t withdraw in the end. With the help of my Lao Shi, I changed my script (but not the topic), and made it with more simpler. Yay, I still had 5 days to practise!

So…

I honestly think that these contests are more than just competing against others, and more than just winning. I told myself I wanted to enjoy the whole process, I wouldn’t care about the result. They were not supposed to bring me down by any means.

Actually the most interesting part of this story was the times when I prayed. I said something like this, “God, I’m fine and I will be fine… even if I don’t win it. (above all you know what I want, right?)” And it happened exactly like that.

But when the next competition was about to come, I said, “God I do want to win this. I am trying to do my best, and You will do the rest.” And you know what… He gave what my heart had wanted… well, in spite of my lack of preparation.

Guess, I don’t need to be 不好意思 or ’sungkan-sungkan’ to ask whatever I wish. Mmm… I’d better make a long wish list then

and the list goes on… *signing off*

~ by annice on September 12, 2007.