My Pain, My Gain

Zhang Yu Xin – Beiwai Learning Center

  Registering in Beiwaionline programs initially was just for the advantages such as: study ing English systematically; conducting the course at spare time, etc… Though I don’t need to sit in the classroom for the study, I am monitored by the system through submitting homework on regular basis. This is one of the most useful tools to overcome my inertia.

  Soon after the first semester started, I have realized that this is not as easy as I anticipated. I am more like a peg-top in the daily life. Everyday start work at 9:00 am in the morning. When come home from the office, it’s already 7:30pm or even later.After cooking and completing the diner, it has been 9:30 pm.When taking care of my daughter to have a rush bath and going to bed, the hour hand has pointed to 10:00 pm or sometimes later. Basically, my study time was only after 10:00 pm!Most of the time, I use a cup of coffee to confront the sleepy eyelids. As time passed, the blue-eye-socket appeared stealthily, and I felt very tired at daytime alsoIt sounded alarm to me that this is not the right way to proceed with the study. From long-term point of view, this will be very bad to my health.

  I decided to squeeze time from daytime. Normally, it takes 40 minutes by car from my home to the office, I just take this time to read the book/guidance of English Writing.Our office hour is from 9:00am – 6:00pm, I used to be in the office at ten to nine, and now I normally arrive at 8:00am, one hour earlier than office opening.This respect, I could have purely one hour to concentrate on the Active English.Our lunch time is one hour.I basically take 15 minutes to finish the lunch and rest of the time left for English Listening….Above processes went with me for past one and half years, and it worked well.I will continue same for the rest of my semesters’ study.

  Since started the online programs, I almost gave up all my loves and habits. I like reading saga novel in Chinese, and now there is no time for that but English-related books/materials are handy instead. I like watching TV, but never finish a complete TV program after registered the online study. I am a sleepy head, but I force myself to sleep one hour later but get up one hour earlier than usual…all these just for squeezing more time to study.

  As the saying goes: all the efforts will be paid at the end of the day.I was chosen as the “Excellent Student for the Year 2005” This is exactly the award towards my efforts in the past.I will certainly keep it up and try utmost to make further progress in the coming years.