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By: Amy 1 Words in Oxford 3000: 95% 2 Chapter 2 Worry-Free Childhood.......................... P.12 Chapter 4 Busy Life In Junior High ...................... P.27 Chapter 5 Half Foreigner....................................... P.35 Chapter 1 Who’s Jane? .......................................... P.5 Chapter 6 Jane’s Future ......................................... P.56 3TRANSCRIPT
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Contents
Chapter 1 Who’s Jane? ..........................................P.5
Chapter 2 Worry-Free Childhood..........................P.12
Chapter 3 Little Jane In Elementary School..........P.17
Chapter 4 Busy Life In Junior High ......................P.27
Chapter 5 Half Foreigner.......................................P.35
Chapter 6 Jane’s Future .........................................P.56
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Summary
Jane is a little girl who has dark skin and always
smiles. Her mother is from a rich big family. Her
grandfather was a successful businessman. Her father
is from Pintung. They had a romantic love story and
had Jane. There were a lot of interesting matters
happened in Jane’s life. You will see clearly what has
happened in Jane’s childhood, elementary school,
junior high school and now doing her college years.
There are sadness, love stories, challenges, and
experiences about Jane. It might be a little boring, but
you will see how a little girl faces each situation that
appears in her life.
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Chapter 1 Who’s Jane?
Jane is a little girl who has dark skin and always
smiles. Jane is a happy girl because she is the only
child in her family. Her parents love her as a only one
treasure in the world. She can always get whatever
she wants or do whatever she wants to do. In Jane’s
world, nothing is impossible. However, there is one
thing that bothers Jane a lot. People always think she
is a native person because she is dark. Every time she
has to explain. “You are from Taitung? Which race do
you belong to?” “Race? What do you mean?” “You
are a native person, aren’t you?” Jane is tired of this
kind of conversation.
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Jane’s mother is from a big family which was
once very rich and will-known in the city because her
father earned a lot of money when he was still alive.
She usually tells Jane about her father, Jane’s
grandfather, whom Jane has no impressions about
because he died when he was very young. He was a
businessman who did his business very successfully.
During that times, he was just like most fathers, which
means he was very serious so children wouldn’t be
dare to talk to him. However, he treated them very
well on the other hand. He gave them the best living
quality and newest affairs. Therefore, they always had
things which others didn’t have. “When the radio was
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still rare in other families, we had already had a
television. Grandpa also hired a driver to pick us up
from work or school. Once when a typhoon appeared,
the driver took us to the beach to watch the waves.
Grandpa was very mad about that.” Jane’s mother said.
She was the youngest girl of other children from
the ”major” wife (Jane’s grandfather had had two
wives) so he treated her even better. “Soon after my
birth, your uncle also appeared in this world. Grandpa
thought it’s me who brought your uncle to our family
so he loved me more than other children,” She
continued. Jane’s grandpa bought her a car and let her
buy everything she wanted. The car was what caused
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the love story of Jane’s parents. That’s another story
which Jane’s mother also tells her often.
Jane’s father was from a very little Hakka (a
name of a race) village of Pintung, a county in the
very south of Taiwan. He came to Taitung, where they
are living now, right after he graduated from his
five-year college. They first met at the badminton
court in his company. He was deeply impressed by
Jane’s mother when he saw her, but he was too shy to
talk to her. Once, he secretly washed her car. One day
after she hadn’t been to the badminton court for a long
time, they met again at the beach. Jane’s mother was
living near the beach.
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“Hey, are you the girl who often went to our
badminton court? I haven’t seen you for a long time.
Why haven’t you been there these days?” Jane’s father
was surprised.
“Oh! It’s because I have been busy lately.”
“Please go there when you have free time, ok?”
That was the first conversation they had. Before
long they had fallen in love. After they had been
dating for seven years, they decided to get married.
Then Jane came to the world a year after. Jane was a
troublesome baby because she always cried in the
middle of the night and slept during the day. “At first
we hired a baby-sitter to look after you, but she said
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you didn’t sleep at night. She was annoyed so she
begged us to bring you back home. Daddy and I had
to hold you in our arms in turns. The only way to keep
you quiet was holding you in the arms and walking
constantly. You cried right when we sat down,” Her
mother said so like a complaint.
Jane’s parents had made a deal that they only
wanted to have one child. That’s why Jane was so
lucky to be an only child although she had always
wanted a brother or sister when she was little.
“Mommy, why don’t I have a little sister or
brother? All my friends have brothers or sisters,” she
wondered.
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“Silly girl, you will know that it is a great affair.
Nobody would rob your toys or fight with you. You
are the only baby Daddy and I love.”
What Jane’s mother told her was true. She is
now pleased that she can have everything at home.
She is satisfied to be an only child.
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Chapter 2 Worry-Free Childhood
When Jane was three years old, her parents sent
her to kindergarten. There was a class system called
“Yoyo” class. It was for children under four years old.
She didn’t want to go because she wanted stay with
her parents. On the way to kindergarten, she kept
crying and screaming. She thought thus her father
would deal with her and take her back home but she
failed. When they got to the kindergarten, Jane stayed
closely with her father. She was afraid that her father
would go away if she wasn’t with him. However, her
father still left when she went to the bathroom before
the noon break. She cried loudly and kept asking
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questions.
“Why hasn’t my daddy come back?”
“Daddy has to work. You stay silent and daddy
will be back soon.”
“Why does daddy work so long?” she asked
after five minutes.
“He will come back soon if you behave well. So
you just sleep now and after you wake up, you will
see your daddy,” The teacher answered her patiently.
Nevertheless, the situation didn’t last very long.
Before the rest of the day finished, she became
familiar with friends and teachers in the kindergarten.
She played happily with other children and expected
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the next day coming again. She started to love to go to
kindergarten.
Jane was very busy when she was only a little
child. Her parents wanted her to learn many different
talents. For example, she had learnt mental calculation,
folk dance, piano, draw and roller-skating. She had
talent classes every evening. She was happy about that
because everyone admired her for she was a talented
girl. She participated in many mental calculation
competitions, piano competitions and speech
competitions. Every time she presented well. There
are a lot of medals and cups at their home. Her parents
were proud of her.
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Jane had to go to two schools when she was
five years old because her uncle arranged a better
kindergarten for her but one ended at noon everyday.
She had to go to the former kindergarten after the one
in the morning. Teachers liked her because she was
docile. She was chosen by the teacher to be the
exemplary child. She always hoped that it was not
because her uncle was the headmaster of that school.
She didn’t have much confidence at that time.
Unfortunately, Jane broke her elbow once when
she was playing. She just wanted to show the teachers
how well she could play with the equipment. Being
too proud, she fell down from a very high place. The
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accident forced her to stay in the hospital for two
weeks and made it unable for her to act like others for
two months. She didn’t like the hospital because there
was many medicine, injection and operation. Also
because of the accident; Jane lost the freedom to play
with the equipment.
When Jane graduated from kindergarten, the
award she got was the award of the county magistrate,
the best award of all.
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Chapter 3 Little Jane In Elementary
School
Jane went to elementary school when she was
six years old. She was very excited when she put on
her uniform on the first day she went to school. She
had expected to wear the uniform since she saw other
older children wore uniforms. Her mother took a
picture of her for memory. Her aunt took her to
school.
“Look at the black board, when is the school
ended today?” Her aunt asked each question carefully.
“Eleven o’clock.”
“Good. Go and wait at the school’s front door
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when school is over. I will pick you up there.”
Nonetheless, the beginning of her elementary
school was not as good as she expected. The boy
sitting next to her kept glaring at her and treated her
unfriendly. Jane had started to be afraid of school until
she met many friends and gradually got familiar with
school life.
At first, she usually forgot to bring her hat
which was a part of her uniform. She was usually
punished for that. Sometimes she wore the wrong
clothing. She wore the sports clothing when others
wore uniforms and wore uniform when others wore
sports clothing. She herself didn’t realize it but her
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cousins who went to school with her everyday did.
“Where is your hat?”
“My hat? Oh, yes! Where is my hat? I did bring
it with me. I think I have left it in the car.”
During her first examination in elementary
school, the first examination in her life, she did a
super great job. She only lost ONE score in all the
subjects. The following examinations were also like
that. She never received any total grades or low
scores.
“I want to call you “299” in the future,” Her
father told his friends.
“What do you mean?”
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“Because every time she gets 299 points if the
total score are 300.”
She would still get 399 if the total points were
400. Her parents were usually angry about that
because the point was not lost because she couldn’t do
it but carelessness.
When Jane’s first grade was almost reach the
end, something bad happened. One day, her father
caught a phone call and became very worried.
“What happened?” Jane’s mother asked.
“Dad had a car accident.”
A serious car accident had happened to Jane’s
grandfather. He was very badly injured. His spinal
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was hurt. The doctor said her grandpa might not be
able to walk. At that time, they often went to Pintung
to take care of him. When Jane had to go to school,
she had to live with other relatives. Jane was little and
not sensible. She was very happy to go to the hospital
because whenever they went to the hospital, their
parents would take her to McDonald’s. She didn’t
have any sadness or anxiety for the condition of her
grandpa’s injury. “She is eating happily.” said her
grandpa looking at her when she was eating. He loved
her and was happy to see Jane. Each time when she
went to see him, he became much better. Luckily, he
recovered and started to walk again.
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During the third and fourth grade, she joined the
school orchestra. They had to perform a show
whenever their school held big activities, such as
athletic competitions, flag-raising or graduation
ceremonies. She always felt proud when she played
her instrument because she thought everybody was
looking at her. Once the teacher wanted her to try the
job as the conductor but someone else volunteered.
When Jane was in the fifth grade, she had a
strict teacher. Actually, she was a nice teacher but just
too strict. Sometimes she treated them very nicely and
with humor but sometimes she yelled at them or gave
them heavy physical punishment.
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“What a mess? Did I teach you to hand in
assignments like this?” she said and throw out all the
books from the second floor window.
“Why did you correct it? Did I tell you to
correct it?” she said giving Jane a slap.
“What a poor grade!!! All of you half crouch
and hold your chairs above your heads……”
Jane was afraid of going to school. She cried
almost everyday before going to school because she
had no idea whether her teacher would be nice or
fierce in the day. Luckily, there was a motivation for
her to go to school. She met her first ideal boy in her
life. Everyday she wanted to see the boy so she wasn’t
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afraid of going to school anymore. They even went to
a three-day-trip together with the science club. Jane
first held his hand during the trip. They stayed happily
together for about one year. However, everything
changed six months before they graduated. They boy
changed his attitude toward her. He said Jane was too
dependent. He didn’t like Jane to be with him all the
time. Jane wanted to save the situation. She got a
chance when the boy had to leave school for three
days for a competition. She asked him to call her
everyday when he wasn’t at school. However, he only
called once.
“Why didn’t you call me yesterday and the day
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before yesterday?” Jane asked disappointedly.
“Rubbish!!! Do you think I have so much
time?” he answered rudely. Jane was shocked,
depressed and decided not to talk to him again. They
became totally strangers and hadn’t talked to each
other until they saw each other again in the driver’s
license training court six years later.
“Are you…Jane?”
Jane nodded.
“You moved, didn’t you?” Jane asked him. “I
called you but it said the number is out of used.”
“Yes, I moved to my mom’s house.”
“My coach must have told you many things
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about me, hasn’t he?”
“Yeah, a little. But I’m not interested because I
know everything about you.”
Jane thought she could become his friend after
the unhappy matter had passed, but he still chose not
to contact with her. Jane was very upset about his
decision.
She then joined the school chorus because the
orchestra teacher wanted to reorganize the orchestra,
and they were not wanted. Jane found that she was
happier in chorus. At least they had participated in a
competition, not only performed shows in school.
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Chapter 4 Busy Life In Junior High
As Jane didn’t pass the exam to attend neither
the music class nor the art class in the best junior high
school, her parents let her go to a new school which
had just been established. The education system was
much more different from the traditional one. There
they had ten mathematic classes, ten Chinese classes
and ten English classes every week. They took away
some unimportant subjects, such as housewifery,
history, geography and social science while they had
some strange courses like cadence, body-building and
English conversation. They were not supposed to be
found in a formal junior high school’s schedule. Many
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parents discovered the problem that the new education
system wouldn’t do their children any good. When a
change-president incident happened, many parents of
almost one third of the students decided to transfer
their children to other schools. There was a school,
which the president was willing to set up an individual
class for them. They felt very uncomfortable when
they went there the first day because all the students
in the school heard this news and were curious about
them. The crowd jostled outside of their classroom.
They felt like they were animals in a zoo. They
always cried together at the beginning in the new
school. They spent a long time getting used to the life
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in the new school.
Jane was unlucky. One semester later, the
president said they didn’t have enough money to
continue the class, so they had to be separated into
many groups. This group joined class one, another
group joined class two and that group joined class
three. Jane felt crazy about that. She didn’t like new
circumstance.
After she got familiar with the new class, Jane
joined the wind band. She was interested in playing
flute and she played very well. She was one of the
students whom the band teacher liked most. Once in a
flute competition she won second place. They same
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competition for groups, their wind band also took
second place. They were satisfied because first place
was taken by the music class of the best school.
Actually, they thought they were better than first place.
They thought it was because the group was from a
music class, so the judges gave them a higher score,
only one point higher than them. They rejoiced with
wild excitement and wrote on the black board “What
are they proud of? Only one point higher than us.
INFERIOR!!!”
When Jane was in third grade, she had to drop
out from the wind band to prepare for the big exam
for high school. Her class teacher arranged small tests
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for the morning self-study period everyday. She didn’t
want to go to normal high schools. She knew the
stress in the normal high school would bite her down.
She was interested in language so what she wanted
was a five-year-college which provide professional
education in languages. Her parents agreed. However,
Jane needed a high score to attend the college. She
went to an omni bearing cram school. It was a hard
time for Jane. Everyday after she came back from
school, she needed to go to the cram school. The time
she came home from cram school was sometimes ten
sometimes eleven. After cram school, she still had to
do the homework or prepare for the test the next day.
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She felt she would pass out anytime.
A new motivation appeared. She fell in love
with the tutor in her cram school. The situation was
difficult. They couldn’t let others know they were
dating. Otherwise, both of them might get kicked out
of the cram school. Jane thought it was fine to tell her
best friend because she was not concerned about the
cram school. Unfortunately, her friend carelessly slip
her lips. She didn’t know that the tutor didn’t want
others to know about him.
“James, Jane loves you.” She called the tutor’s
name loudly when Jane was talking to him on the
phone.
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“Who’s that? Why does she know my name?”
sounding a little angry.
“She is my best friend. I think it’s okay to tell
her about us.”
“I thought we had made a deal that we wouln’t
tell anyone else, don’t we?”
“I……” Jane couldn’t explain. She just wanted
to share her feeling. She didn’t like to hide secrets in
her heart.
There was an one-minute silence.
“Hello?” he broke the silence.
“Yeah, I think it’s enough for today. Bye.”
That’s the end of their love.
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Jane continued studying hard. She deeply
wanted to attend the college. She wouldn’t let
anything influence her. She made it. She got the
permission to attend the school even though she didn’t
get a really good score. In other words, she had to
overcome the difficulty that she had to leave her
hometown, her family, her friends and all the familiar
things for a totally different place.
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Chapter 5 Half Foreigner
Before Jane started her college life, her parents
sent her to Boston for one month. This was the first
time Jane had studied abroad. She always did great in
English during junior high school. She thought she
would use English well in America but she didn’t.
Almost everyone in her group was better than she was.
She was ashamed of herself when she took the test.
She couldn’t even use a complete sentence. She could
only answer “yes” or “no” when the teacher asked her
about her learning English. When the teacher had
them discuss in class, she just sat there and listened to
others. What happened? She could speak English well,
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couldn’t she? She had determined she would improve
her English a lot when she went to college.
A week after they got there, a group of French
set foot on also. Jane and other friends were a little
unhappy with those French students because they
thought everything had been in order and the French
students would disturb them. When the French
students arrived, they were dumb. The boys were tall
and handsome and the girls were pretty with excellent
figures. Compared with them, Jane and her friends
slowly lost their confidence.
At first, the French students were unfriendly.
They were cold when Jane and her friends talked to
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them. The next day, the teacher held an activity. He
gave each person a piece of paper with a few
questions and asked them to ask other students who
had different nationality, which meant the Taiwanese
students could only choose the French students and
the French students could only choose the Taiwanese
students. This activity allowed them to get to know
more about each other.
“You were born in July? So was I.”
“How to say “good-bye” in French?”
“Sorry, I didn’t catch that. Could you please say
it again?”
They became good friends after this activity.
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Jane noticed a lovely boy. He was like a famous
movie star. He didn’t talk a lot.
“Hey, what’s your name?” Jane asked him
shyly.
“Pierre.”
“Pierre? How do you spell that?”
“P-I-E-R-R-E.”
“How old are you?” Jane’s friend asked for her.
“Sixteen.”
Jane liked Pierre, but she didn’t know that her
friends told him about that. He started to talk to Jane
voluntarily.
“Hey, what are you doing?”
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“Nothing. I’m trying to add money into my
laundry card, but it doesn’t work. How about you?”
“Skateboarding. Wanna try?”
“No way. I will fall down and die.”
“No, you won’t. I will teach you.”
On Jane’s birthday, all of them held a birthday
party for Jane in a pizza house. Everybody said
“Happy Birthday” to her. Some said it in Chinese, in
French, in English and others in Japanese. They even
sent her a special present. They told Pierre to sit next
to her.
“Hi. How old are you?” Pierre took off a
cigarette as he sat down.
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“Fifteen……Hey, don’t smoke. It’s bad for
you,” Jane took away the cigarette from him.
“Oh, no. Just this time, please. For your
birthday.”
“OK, just this time.”
“How old are you?” the leader of the Taiwan
group asked Pierre.
“Sixteen.”
“Wow~” everybody laughed in an uproar. This
was the happiest birthday for Jane.
One day, Jane’s friend, Cindy, called her.
“I’ve got something to tell you.”
“Yeah?”
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“I told Remy to ask Pierre if he likes you. He
said he thought you were a good girl but he likes tall
girls.”
Jane understood. She was little. She wasn’t the
one Pierre wanted. Soon he had a girlfriend in their
group. The girl was almost one meter and eighty high
and very beautiful. Jane was very, very sad. She cried
all the time. She didn’t eat, didn’t go out and didn’t go
to class. All she did was crying and being in a daze.
Somebody touched her back the next day when
they were going to a mall. Jane turned her head. A
French guy pointed at Pierre.
“Why did you cry yesterday?” trying to pretend
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nothing had happened.
“Go away. I don’t want to see you,” Jane
replied kiddingly.
“You said you don’t want to see me?”
“Yes.”
“Could you please take a picture with me? For
memory,” He asked. They met in a convenient store in
the mall. He bought a camera. Jane was surprised, but
she knew it was not like what she had thought.
The day they left the French students, Jane
kissed Pierre on his cheek and said, “I love you.”
Afterward, Jane couldn’t forget it and kept crying for
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two months. Her mother always said she was stupid.
She met Pierre only a few days in America. How
could she love him so deeply?
After Jane came back to Taiwan, her college life
began immediately. The first year was ordinary. Her
studies were not too good, but not too bad either. She
hadn’t been familiar with the city life. She often took
the wrong bus. She brought the wrong textbooks.
Everything else was fine. To make her life substantial,
she volunteered to do many things. In the Praying
Ceremony which the school always holds for the first
year students, she led her classmates reading the
words. Everyone on the scene was impressed by her
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because she had added much affection.
She also joined the Flute Club. She had a
performance with her Flute Club members in a café
on Christmas Day. It was embarrassing because her
music score fell down while she was performing the
show.
She joined many activities in the first athletic
meeting. She ran passed three people so her team was
permitted to be in the semifinal. People screamed and
shouted. She was considered a goddess. She enjoyed
the screams, clapping and being admired. After that
moment, she has been proud of herself.
The day before the College Student English
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Proficiency Test, Jane went to Taipei for a piano
competition which was held by her favorite piano
player- Eric Chen. She was very excited and crazy
when she saw Eric. She was afraid that she would
make a fool of herself. Being too nervous and not
having had enough time to practice, she showed very,
very badly. When the contestants took the book for
him to sign, he didn’t talk to her. Jane was a little
angry about this because he talked to others
enthusiastically, such as “you played very well but I
think you were too nervous, weren’t you? Next time
you will be better,” Jane thought, “how dare you to
ignore me? Anyhow I am one of the contestants and
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your loyal fancy. At least you can say something like
“you still need improvement” or something else.”
Because of this bad sentiment, Jane got a super low
score on the CSEPT.
Jane was very busy during her second year. She
accepted a job as the art designer in Folk Rock Club.
She had to make a lot of posters for their activities.
Whenever they had activities, she had to decorate the
place. She liked the busy life because she thought that
IS college. She could play guitar well after a
winter-training in Kenting. She played guitar with her
partner in a big concert held by their club. She had a
lot of fun in the concert.
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She and her classmates were excited when they
won the champion ship of the tug of war. They vowed
to win when they lost in the second war during first
grade. All the teachers and students were shocked
because they had only two boys in their class. Their
teacher said it was because they were united.
After the second year ended, Jane went to
Seattle. This time her English was much better. She
talked smoothly during the conversation. Her class
teacher said her pronunciation was as good as his. She
was placed into high-level classes with many people
whose English were even much better than hers. She
learnt a lot and her English also improved a lot. In the
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language center, she had more friends from many
different countries, Japan, Columbia, Italy, Korea and
Switzerland. Every time when they had to do group
assignments, the teacher would arrange students of
different nationalities in a group so they could only
speak English. During the days in Seattle, they went
to some famous places, such as Space Needle,
Woodland Park Zoo, Rose Garden and Pike Place
Market which is the birth place of STARBUCKS.
They even went to Safeco Field to watch a
baseball game between the Mariners and the Twins.
She was excited when she saw the famous Japanese
player, Suzuki Ichiro. Americans were so crazy about
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baseball. She also liked the outlet mall. There she
could buy some famous brands at low prices.
The day after they finished the course in the
language center, they went directly to Canada. Jane
didn’t like Canada. Most of her memories were just on
the bus. But she loved the ice sheet on the Rockie
Mountains. They threw snowballs and put snow in
others cloths. Jane was so chagrined that she left her
camera on the bus. She felt remorse about that.
After Jane came back to Taiwan, she had gained
three kilos. The high calorie American food made her
face looking round and fat.
Jane was poor in the third year. She liked a
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teacher who was already married and had a child. She
had to pretend that she just ran into him. She was
really an innocent girl. She usually thought the teacher
would give up his family for her. She wrote
everything about him in her diary. When she went
back to those memories, she cried or smiled like a
frenetic.
Except for that, she also had to face her worst
subject, history. History was difficult for her. What
they had to study was foreign history. It’s even more
difficult. Sumer, Assyria, Cubitt, ancient
Greek, ……Jane was mad when she studied these
kind of stuff. She always complained to herself, “Why
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do we have to study this? Will the executive ask us
what Sumerian usually did during an interview? No,
he won’t.” She didn’t understand why her classmates
could do so well in this subject. No matter how hard
she studied, she could only get a low score.
At the beginning of the winter vacation, she
went to a small village in the mountains with her club
members to help poor native children. They were all
exhausted because the children never got tired. When
they hardly had time to take a little rest, the children
would ask them to teach them how to play guitar or
play with them.
“What’s that?” they hadn’t even seen a digital
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camera.
“Take me to the store.”
“Will you come here again?” “No, I won’t,
because I don’t have to join any clubs when I am a
fourth year student.” “Why? Did your president tell
you this?” “No. It is just a school policy.” “Was that
made by your president?” “No. It’s made by school.”
“Play basketball with us.”
The children even went to their room in the
evening. They had to “force” the children to go home
at ten o’clock. They seemed to spend all of their
energies during those four days.
Jane had a nice teacher during the third year.
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The teacher contacted with them often. She always
held many activities. Once they had a class
celebration. They bought a lot of pizza, chickens,
cakes and drinks. They sang. The teacher made a film
of their class. They screamed and cried when
watching the film because they were touched. They
loved their teacher very much. When the third year
ended, they were reluctant because they didn’t want to
leave their teacher. They knew she wouldn’t stay with
their class.
That summer vacation Jane stayed in Taiwan.
Her mother sent her to a driver’s training center to
learn to drive. The course lasted for a month. That’s
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why Jane couldn’t go abroad this time.
Although she didn’t go abroad, she went to
many places in Taiwan. She went to Taichung and
shopping with one of her cousins.
She went to Taipei twice. The first time was
boring after they went to a native village called
Smagus for two days since there was a typhoon. She
and her cousins could only stay home and watch films.
They felt their eyes were nearly blind because they
watched films all day. The second time was much
more funny. They went shopping for a whole day.
Jane bought a bank of clothes because the cloths were
very cheap. The next day they went to a water world.
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They experienced many kinds of water slides and got
seriously sun burned. They also went to the fun fair
with Jane’s boyfriend. They got all wet because
somebody shot them with a water gun when they
played the little boat..
Her cousin came to Taitung twice. This summer
vacation was full of going and coming. Jane loved it.
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Chapter 6 Jane’s Future
Now Jane was in the fourth year of her college.
She had expected it for a long time because she
thought she could wear casual clothes. However, she
found that it was not funny in fourth grade. Her life
was full of tests and papers. It’s becoming a hard time
for Jane. She is afraid that she would fail. She has
started to go to cram school to prepare for her
university exam. It’s a busy year. There are more
challenges in the following years. She has got ready to
face all the difficulties.