Future Plan

           Do you feel uncertain about what to do in the future? Yeah, I know how you feel. I also haven’t figured out what I truly want in the future yet. However, there is a goal without any purpose in my mind - I want to live in a foreign country. In order to fulfill this goal, I need a job to earn my bread when I go abroad. Therefore, I decided to be a Chinese teacher in Japan to teach Chinese as a foreign language.

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            I started to take Chinese teaching classes. And this semester I selected a super cool class called “Introduction to Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language”. Tr. He invited many foreign students to join our Chinese Teaching Program. Everyone was paired up with one foreign student, and my partner was a beautiful Colombian girl, Mariam. She had never learnt Chinese before, so I started teaching her the Pin-Yin system. To be honest, preparing the classes was exhausting. I spent many hours designing the lesson plan and materials, but I also learnt many things through the 1 by 1 classes as a Chinese teacher. Moreover, Mariam and I also became friends! We worked out at the gym and talked about boys. This cherished experience not only makes me learn how to teach but also makes me get closer to my goal. Moreover, I kind of find out the purpose of being a Chinese teacher-I want to meet more different people from different cultures and countries!

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            Apart from this, I selected a Japanese class to learn Japanese. In the beginning, it was so hard for me to memorize the 50 hiragana and katakana separately. Every word is like Morse code that I cannot realize the meaning in it. However, I was the lucky one to learn with Tr. Yang. She is a kind and patient teacher who gives us lots of chances to practice speaking and listening in the class. Also, she provided many online learning sources and introduced us the useful way of “Shadowing” to improve our speaking.  And now, I have a group of lovely friends who also set up their goals to pass the N3 test and become exchange students in Japan. I truly hope that we all can get together again one day in Japan!

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           When I was a freshman last year, I felt confused about the future. There is no ideal career I want to be, but I have an innocent goal in mind- to live in a foreign country. Although It sounds unreal and vague, it does give me a direction to plan my blueprint for my future. Our lives are full of possibilities if we get rid of the social stigma of the good job “well-paid”. And I believe the universe is humongous, we can ultimately find a place to stand.