New year is always welcome to those who are heading for the new things. And new year is also a good time to look forward. Everyone is looking for his goal, some may go even further.
It is really nice to see people again, and everybody has changed a little bit in this long and cold Christmas. The coffee room in Bute building is humming again; conversations here are full of the feedbacks of last semester, the stressful coming days and so on. All of these show how busy semester we will have. I feel a little bit nervous for we will have our real newspaper to publish in this semester.
As I think about the gain and loss, I really feel regret as I didn’t do my best in last semester. My poor English is not an excuse. Even some of my Chinese classmates got a score as high as 70%. Did I read a newspaper everyday as Gary told us? The answer is no. I was far away from reaching the standard. It is really disgusting to say: I swear I will be hard working… Too waffle and too childish. I need to do some real things for my future.
My dream is to be a journalist, at least a writer. But I still afraid of the world outside. I’d really like to find a job here for another year. But I heard the challenge will be great, especially for Chinese. The first difficulty is Chinese all speaking English poorly, which make them hard in communication. Then find a job in the UK is very hard at the very moment. Chris said I should be self-confident; maybe I can take his words and find a chance for myself.
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- 2007-02-05 @ 23:49:19

You written English is very good so I don't your
spoken English is bad. Don't put yourself down.
I am sure your lecturer would be happy if you managed to reach 75% of the target he set. He probably sets it that high so that you read a paper atleast every second day - targets should always be set high so we do better than if we didn't have them.
I also think this is an exciting time of the year when we can look forward to the birth of spring and hotter weather in summer. Also the holidays we can look forward to.
Remember that we have days when we have to work hard so that the days away are filled with fun times. For most work people this is the Friday / Monday issues hghs and lows!!
Will be great to hear how the newspaper comes on over the next few weeks.
RHT xx