 As I wake up from the cold, crispy morning, I gazed out at the window. I see the world covered in sheets of pure, white snow; the trees, the ground, the rooftops, everywhere was covered! Mesmerized by the beautiful scene of nature, I didn’t let me eyes wander off until ten minutes later. It’s so peaceful outside. No noise, just dead silence.
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 Neil Pasricha's TED Talk was awesome! In my opinion, the 3 A's- Attitude, Awareness and Authenticity sums up to living your life to the fullest. We should be happy about our lives, what we have and where we live. First, he talks about attitude. It is the importance of being happy and staying positive as there are many "ups and downs" in your path. Rather than grieving and frowning about the past, put a smile on and face the future! (By the way, it takes more muscles to frown than to smile :D) Next, awareness is all about being aware of your surroundings and experiencing the world around you. Lastly, authenticity is about being true to yourself. This means be you and not follow others' path. Attitude and authenticity resonates me most. I agree with Neil that 100 years is not a lot of time for us to experience the world, so we have to enjoy life and try out new things!
One thing that I disagree is with the fact of staying positive towards everything. This includes going through difficulties. Sometimes I see people pretending to be fine and alright in front of other people, but then once they are by themselves, they return back to depression. Someone people are hit so hard, that they can't stand up immediately and think positively, like Neil. That kind of defeats the whole purpose of authenticity. The people who hide their feelings are not being true to themselves. One person may keep saying they are alright but the truth is they are not!!  Today, I am going to write about the Chinese New Year Celebration my language school held last Saturday. And yes, I do go to school on Saturday to learn Chinese. For three consecutively years, I had to become the MC (Master of Ceremony) for the celebration speaking Cantonese and/or English. Speaking in front of an audience is one of my fears and yet, the teachers still force me to do it. I spent hours writing out my script and rehearsing as well. But, at the last minute before the celebration began, one of the teachers told me that the script I spent four hours writing was garbage. That moment, I just felt like tearing my script that I was holding in my hand and storming out of the stadium. I was then giving a new list of the performances, expecting me to improvise right on the spot. I stuttered quite a few times and I was so close from tripping over m dress. Indeed, this is my worst year. Besides the atrocious part of the morning, there was an amusing part. We had a special guest come in and sing for us. Guess what song it was? Gangnam Style! I didn't know that everyone was going to get up and randomly start dancing to it. I just slowly backed up in a corner and watched all these people do the dance. Even the parents were involved, surprisingly. I just stood there laughing and sang along.
Watching the documentary, "Generation Jobless" did alter my mind in a negative way. Seeing that many young grads are underemployed and are mired in education debt, I'm afraid I will become one of them in the future! Perhaps the next generation will be even worse than now, with more people left jobless and underemployed!
Joblessness has affected my field of interest somewhat in a good way. Now, I will have to reconsider what courses to take, so I don't have to go back to university after I graduate! I want to go into the science field, but referring back to the documentary, I realized that a majority of the graduates who have a degree in science have to return to university to take a technology course. I dislike using technology (especially computers) but right now, I'm debating whether or not should I take a computer science course. Someone give me opinions, please! In Canada's Labour Market Information, the sector I show interest in is the professional, scientific and technical services. The specific careers I'm interested in are chemist and chemical engineer. I'm still not too sure what governing bodies are. However, there are. The UNESCO- United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization has two governing bodies, The General Conference and The Executive Board that promotes job creation in the science field. The ILO- International Labour Organization is also a governing body whose purpose is to promote jobs while protecting people. The government could help with the economic crisis by enhancing social protection and create opportunities for people to have a decent income and employment. How can I gain experience to set apart from my peers? I can apply for an internship, co-op or an apprenticeship education to gain experience different from other people. Also, I can do volunteering and/or work while studying to gain not only experience, but skills as well. What technological skills can I build? I can develop my skills in researching, writing lab reports, understanding basic hardware/software, troubleshooting, communication, word processing and database skills needed to help me in the science field. Dear Me,
Who do I want to be ten years from now? Hopefully, I’ll change a bit,or a lot from what I am now. I am currently 15 and by the time I reach age 25, I want to be more confident in myself in speaking in front of an audience, carrying out certain tasks, just basically anything. Right now, you can say I’m the most quietest student in most of my classes. I feel nervous all the time when doing presentations because I cannot speak in front of people. Also, I am anxious to hand in any projects and tests because I have no confidence in getting an awesome mark! That, I definitely have to change. Another thing I want to be when I’m older is having an outgoing personality. I want to be more socially confident and responsive to others, opposite to what I am now- timid and shy. I’m just simply scared to talk to new people and meet new friends! I’m not the person willing to try new stuff as well. One thing I don't like about myself is I have no sense of humour. I can’t even talk to someone on the phone unless no one hears me and sometimes I need to rehearse before speaking. I’m such a failure right now, but not for long. Hopefully ten years from now, things will change for me to make myself better. Thanks for reading! Sincerely, The Me of 2013 I' m just a fifteen year-old in high school, creating this website for a class project. But here, I will be posting personal things about what I like to do in my spare time and school-related stuff. All About Me My name is Carolin Tu and people tease me about my last name because it sounds like the number two, though I don't understand what's so funny about it..... You can probably guess I'm Asian just because of my last name. I was born in Canada and have been living here in Cambridge since my birth. I went to Vietnam for a year, realizing that Canada is a great country with all four seasons! The winter in Vietnam is the equivalent to summer in Canada and sometimes I wonder how can people survive summer in Vietnam. I would say that winter is my second favourite season for the reason that I love snow! I think Canada is a great country. Don't get it wrong, I'm not Vietnamese. Both my parents were born in Vietnam and they have the ability to speak both Chinese and Vietnamese, because my grandparents were Chinese. At home, I only speak Cantonese Chinese to my parents. I wonder why they won't teach me Vietnamese; that makes me kind of furious. I know that they will talk in Viet whenever they are talking about my siblings and I. That makes me even more furious! -________- Music- A Part, or rather, a big part of My Life  I've been playing the piano for almost two years now, without taking any lessons. My parents bought me a keyboard when I was six years old, but I didn't start officially playing until the summer of 2011. Now, I have a digital piano! I will spend at least an hour playing my piano every night (if I have no homework), searching for random songs to learn and finding tutorials on youtube. If I'm depressed or something, I will go up to my room and start playing until I'm happy. Sometimes I will leave in the middle of homework to play. What I hate though is the fact that I can't read sheet music and my siblings will do their best to irritate me in many ways until I stop playing. Great siblings I have there. Anyways, most of the songs I learn to play are either classic piano, k-pop (Korean pop) or j-pop (Japanese pop). Some of the songs I already learned on piano are Gangnam Style, Canon, Turkish March and Payphone!
In the next ten years or so, I want to be a person who is happy, confident, outgoing, successful, healthy, stress-free, comfortable, open-minded, courageous and independent. I want to live life to the fullest, be close to my family and travel around the world. I hope to be the person who gets a university degree in something and get a professional career. I want to be a person who is slightly above the average person, is a good problem solver and is very socable unlike now. I want to be living in a safe house, in a safe community. I want to be the person who walks in the Sakura Garden in Japan and knows at least eight languages. Overall, I want to be successful in life!
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