Autobiography (SHORT)

My name is Lin Tzu Hsuan, a student graduating from the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures of National Chung Hsing University in the current year. Excluding modest remarks, I’m a person with independence, sociability and a great sense of responsibility. At the same time, I also possess the advantage of confidence, diligence and language skills.

Teenagers in the 21st century hold the image of softness, relying much on the shoulders of their parents. However, my parents had taught me to be independent since I was little. At the age of ten, my family moved to Shanghai, it was a big challenge for me. I barely knew the alphabets, and English was like a total stranger. I was registered at one of the International schools called SSIS (Shanghai Singapore International School) with teachers lecturing in English every class. Life was hard to come by, but I stuck up to all the obstacles and challenges. And that’s where English and I became friends, laying my basic in the language.

The years in the Main Land, my parents often took me on independent travels, visiting most of the cities in China. I can still remember the desert in Xin Jiang, the coldness in Harbin and so many others. Having travelled so frequently and broadly had indirectly granted me the advantage to adapt quickly to new environment, and always beholding curiosity toward new things.

I resumed my junior high study back in Taipei after graduating from SSIS, but it wasn’t long before my family was again on the move to Jhunan, where I entered an elite class at a local school, and that’s where I started to win lots of contests in English Speaking, English Reading, Listening and Chinese Lectures. I also past the High-Intermediate GEPT test in the second year of Junior High.

Even though competitors roam the campus of Hsin Chu High School, it didn’t stop me from showing my talent, especially after I made my way into the Language Exceptional Class. My English skills didn’t falter, but kept improving in a steady pace. I won 2 times the English Lecture contest in school, participated in the National English Speaking Competitions, and received many awards in the Annual Literature Contest. Also, I was often chose as leaders in class, in sports teams, due to my sense of responsibility. At last, I graduated and made my choice to major in Foreign Languages and Linguistics, without a blink.

To me, college isn’t all about studying, neither is playing the center. It’s about exploring oneself and building connections. That’s why I spent much time on activities around the campus, getting to know people from different departments; I also took part time jobs as English assistant in cram school, a tutor for high school students, oral training partner for post graduates and a waiter in a Foreign pizza shop, where I met foreigners from a variety of countries, and it is also a good place to enhance one’s communication skills and eloquence.