Dear Classmates:
I am a big fan of
reading since I was very little and I have learnt so many things from reading. My
literacy portfolio contains the artifacts that remind me the benefits I gained
from reading or writing. Those objects can bring back the memories and times
that means a lot to me. Things that I brought into our class are a poem, a
diary I have wrote when I was 18, two text massages from my friends, a picture
of one of my favourite books, a picture of my favourite TV show, my first
project in college and several photos.
The first thing I am
going to talk about is a book wrote by William J. Bennett, The Book of Virtues. I have read thousand of books in my childhood,
this is not my favourite one but this is the one that influence me the most. My
mom gave it to me for my 6-year-old birthday. Everyone recognizes these traits
as essentials of good character: Responsibility, Courage, Compassion, Honesty,
Friendship, Persistence and Faith. This book has contained hundreds of stories to
instructing and inspiring anthology that will help me understand and develop those
characters. It also provides examples of good and bad, right and wrong so that I
develop such traits in great works of literature and exemplary stories from
history. It is my initiatory book, which I could get the sources of the ideals
by which I wish to live my life.
After I entered high
school, I felt like I could do everything like an adult but actually I was not mature
enough to be responsible for myself. Then I started to feel confused about the definition
of grow up. Now I am going to introduce a poem named Growing Up, which wrote by Cheng Gu, a famous Chinese poet in the
70s. In the poem, he stated that the mark of growing up is neither entering
high school nor writing an essay in foreign language. The most remarkable
milestone of growing up knows your goal of your future. This really means a lot
to me in my whole life.
Our life is short and
limited, we cannot make our life longer, but we can make our life wider by
experience more different cultures. I set up a goal of study abroad when I was
16. I was born in a well-off family in China so it is not easy for my parents
to support me to study abroad. Besides, if I finished my college in 3 years, I
can get a job in my mom’s company easily. It seems that I can get a stabile job
and live comfortably in the future. But this is NOT what I want. I did many
researches about study abroad. My first target country was Australia and then I
changed my mind to America. To achieve my goal, I wrote myself a diary as a
reminder. Every time when I felt tired for catching on my dream, I read that
diary again and again and then put myself back to study.
During college, I got
the highest score on my first project. It was a hard time. I have sent
thousands of emails to gathering useful data and it took me almost 3 moths to
finish that. There are difficulties everywhere. I am so nervous when I facing
them. My friends send me massages to support me. One of them said: I will
always be by your side. The other said: you should thank to those difficulties
in your life because those difficulties make you successful. You become
stronger and knowledgeable after you solve the problem. No matter how hopeless I
was, I could feel their support by reading these two messages. I am so thankful
to my friends.
The last two artifacts
are the TV show and a Chinese magazine. The American TV show: Friends is my
favourite and teaches me a lot. I am the only child in my family and I was a
spoiled girl like Rachel Green—I always do my shopping with my dad’s credit
card and crying when I met difficulties. I wish I could find my dream career
and become an independent girl like Rachel in the scene after study at CSUN. That’s
why I named myself Rachel.
Oversea students are
easily felt sad and lonely when the holiday comes. Last weekend, I found a
Chinese bookstore at China town that sells Chinese magazines. I have ordered
that magazine for more than 12 years so I was really exciting to see that in
LA. It could help me get over of my tough time during study at CSUN.
Thus, these are the things
that I put in my folder, and they really changed my life.
Yours, Sincerely,
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