Honor
Roll Luncheon
Hello,
My name is Jingyi Liang from China, and you can just call me Alice. I would
like to share my experience in Honor Roll Luncheon with you. I was so exciting
to be a speaker, and of course I want to thank my favorite teacher Kelly who recommended
me to be a speaker in this event. Actually, I didn't know what should I talk
about in the Honor Roll Luncheon, so I recalled the experiences since I came
here, and I found many interesting things that I want to share with my teachers
and friends, and I made that speech.
May 8
at 12 P.M. I felt very honored when I came into the conference room, at
that moment, I can’t control myself to smile to everyone in the room. Then, I
sat down in a seat that has a table lab written “Reserved for Jingyi Liang”, to
be honest, it made me a little nervous and excited. Later, people who sat at
that table came in, so we talked together and began our lunch. There were many
teachers and friends that I knew, so I greeting with them, talked about interesting
things. After our lunch, we began our speech, I was the third one to give the
speech, I was so happy that my speech made so many people laugh, and it was
what I want. Also, I heard other speakers’ speech, and they were awesome, I
really enjoyed it.
After
the ceremony, I got many praise from my friends and teachers, they told me that
“Good job” or “ It was a wonderful speech”. I was so proud of myself. I really
want to thank the UCR Extension again here and I will never forget this Honor
Roll Luncheon.
Thank
you so much.
JingYi Liang
Honor
Roll Speech
Good
afternoon everyone,
My name
is Alice. I’m very honored to be here today, and I would like to talk about
some interesting things about me.
Since last
year, I have been here for 10 months. During this period of time, I have
experienced a huge culture shock and communication problems. At first, because I
could not speak English very well, I was shy to open my mouth and talk with
classmates and teachers. Even when I went to Starbucks, I pointed on the menu
instead of telling the cashier what I want. Also, eating is another problem
when I first came here. In China, food and dishes have various kinds. No matter
Chinese or western-style food, we could find a lot of restaurants. But I felt
very uncomfortable on here. Of course, for those people who just go abroad
would prefer to find some food which tastes like from their hometown, so I went
to a Chinese restaurant, but they put too much oil in the food and it more fit
American’s flavor, so I got sick after that meal. One of my favorite fruits is
mango, but the mango here is really different from China, so I felt so sad. Another
thing is in China, if you go to a ice cream store or something like that, you just
need to go to the cashier and order that you want, just like fast food stores, so
the first time I came to Yogurtland, I just went to the cashier and told them I
want the strawberry one, so you know, it was really embarrassed me.
Anyway,
there were many things that bothered me, but I found the solutions to solve
them. I try to cook Chinese food by myself, and eat oranges instead of mango.
Also I read some stories aloud outside Starbucks every morning and participated
in the conversation partner program because the more you read the more you can
speak. I spend a really wonderful time in UCR EXT. Although, I have told many
people about EIB class, I really want to say that again, EIB was the most
exciting class that I ever took.
Finally,
I want to thank all of staffs in UCR extension, thank you for giving me such a memorable
experience in America.