Turning point on my path of conquering English. I had the opportunity to work with him when I was a freshman

So far, I always consider myself lucky to meet lots of wonderful teachers throughout the academic years. One of them is my English teacher, Mr. Son. Indeed, meeting him was an essential turning point on my path of conquering English. I had the opportunity to work with him when I was a freshman at university. At first sight, I was truly impressed by his manners, eloquence and behavior. His unique way of teaching in fact provoked my passion for this language. To be more specific, Mr. Son altered my perspective of learning English. Before I met him, for me, English is just the matter of reading, grammar, and writing and I barely paid any attention to the other factors. However, he showed me the vital role of sounds and intonation. Since then, under his guidance, I concentrated more on the way native speakers create their sounds and exerted myself to imitate that. Over a few months, my speaking and listening were upgraded a lot and I became addicted to English. It is my teacher that lit up my study journey and inspired me to continuously practice for a better me.
Without a shadow of a doubt, the most important and influential person in my life is my father. He taught me to walk, read, help others and sometimes fight for justice. I really am grateful to you for the time you have allowed me to talk about my idol in life- my father.
I have known him my whole life – from the time when I was an infant, throughout the time when I started going to school or at the time when I became an adult and this relationship will go on till the angel of death decides to visit one of us- you know what I mean!
When I got this topic to talk about, I was certain it would be my father. I took some time to brainstorm about how I should present him to you but I had no doubt that my father had been, and still is, the most influential person in my life. Due to his unconditional love, and his instrumental guidance for me in every stage of my life, he is the most obvious choice for me to talk about.
My father has taught me the importance of morality and honesty in life and showed me how to become a good human being. He also taught me the qualities of a good person, and how to form good and reliable relationships with others. He has always been a good role model for me as I was growing up. So the person I have become is greatly inspired by my father. I will give you an example of how he guided me my whole life by telling you about an event. I was the top scorer in my school days but my grade started declining in my college. Noticing that he started spending more time with me and put in his every effort – including hiring two home tutors, taking me to libraries, and consulting with my college teachers, to make sure I retain my good grades. During the process, he had never been rude and always assured me that exam results are not that important in life! A truly remarkable way to inspire someone, yet not to pressurise him.
As a person, he is kind, hard-working, patient and understanding, not to mention his sense of humour that allows him to get on well with almost everybody. He was a successful lawyer but has recently retired. Hopefully, I’ve inherited some of his traits and I dream to be a father to my kids the way he is to me!
He is always fair, and he has always been someone I can turn to for advice. I think my father has a positive outlook on life and that has helped me fight my depression in my adolescent years. I feel very close to him and would be ready to do anything and everything humanly possible to make him happy, the same way he did for me his whole life.
I am thankful to many people around me who have influenced my life in one way or another. But, today, I would like to talk about a person, who has influenced the way I live my life a bit more than others, and he is none other than my grandfather.
Anyway, when talking about my grandfather, the first thing, which comes to my mind, is that he is probably the friendliest person I have ever met. Now, of course, you would probably argue that all grandfathers are the friendliest persons to their own grandchildren, so what makes my grandfather so special?
Well, what makes my grandfather so special is that even though he can be the friendliest person on earth he could also be very easily regarded as one of the laziest persons, but he is lazy in some sort of “adorable” way. In other words, you can’t really be mad at him for him so lazy even on your worst days. In fact, he is so lazy that most of the time, he sleeps with his shoes on!
By the way, I have seen my grandfather this lazy since the time I came to recognize him as my dear grandfather probably about 20-plus years ago from now. Since then, he has aged a little with some wrinkles on his forehead and some grey (well, on second thought, probably a bit more than just “some grey”) hair. But, old or not, I have chosen to talk about my grandfather for this topic because it is he who has taught me to remain happy no matter how bad the situation may get around me.
In the end, I feel that my grandfather indeed has influenced me a lot to help me become the person I am today. After all, it is he who has taught me to become friendly to everybody. I also think that he could easily be a “role model” for many people around us who are never satisfied or happy with their lives.
Learning is a never-ending process. The first things we learn are to think, to talk, to walk, basic behavioural quirks that we adopt from our family and environment. Later on, in life, we choose to learn higher-level skills such as reading, writing, mathematical reasoning and skills classified as extra-curricular. Examples of those skills might be learning to play an instrument, handicrafts, learning to ride a bike, art, and video gaming etc.
Now I will proceed to describe how a dear friend helped me discover the intricacies of braiding complex patterned friendship bracelets. This was back in the summers of primary school, my friend and I were next-door neighbours, and so quite naturally we used to spend all our time at each other’s houses. As 9-year-old girls are meant to do, our favourite pastime was drawing and playing on the swings.
It was, however, one fateful day when my friend was messing around with some string, tying them in seemingly pointless and frankly rather obscure knots. I did not understand the point of her actions but sat down to watch her anyway. She kept tying knot after knot after knot, soon enough I discovered rationality to her pattern. And why, before my very eyes she produced a magnificent friendship bracelet!
Made with a mosaic of diamonds I could not have told you how she achieved such a feat despite being present the entire duration of its creation.
A day after that I demanded she teaches me. She was reluctant but agreed eventually, though she warned me that I would not be reaching her level of expertise for quite some time. And how right she was! It was a tedious process, learning the different types of knots, the ways to tie them, how the direction determines the shape, all with a dual sting thread. Eventually, I learned to handle more threads, become more experimental with the intricacies. And Before we knew it, the summer had ended. This time we went to school with matching bracelets, for my final task had been to make her one to repay her for her patience, goodwill and friendship.