Movie Review: Rabbit-Proof Fence

This was an aspirating movie which portrayed three aboriginal young children who lived in Jigalong lead a carefree life with their mother and grandmother. One day, they were force to leave their family and accepted white people’s education in Roore River. Molly, 14-year-old, who was reluctant to submit to their assimilation policy took two younger sister away and started their 1500 kilos back home journey. On their way home, a tracker was assigned to take them back. Molly had already set up her mind to go home. Hungry as they were and hard time as it was, Molly’s clever decisions helped her sisters escaped from the tracker’s capture. As Molly followed the Rabbit-Proof Fence to find way home, they were at the edge of dying when they across the desert. Finally, Molly and her younger sister successfully overcame every obstacle and saw their mother and grandmother who stretched their arms to welcome them come back home safely.


The Australian aboriginal chief protector imposed the assimilation policy on Australian aboriginal children. He believed that white people was the most superior race and insisted on increasing the percentage of white people’s population. At first, I was glad that the aboriginal children could receive education but to my disappointment, as the children grew up, they did not have equal respect, whereas men worked as labor farmer and women worked as servant for the white family. However, Japan had ever imposed assimilation but its goal was to have Taiwanese people be loyal to the Japanese Mikado. Though as the Taiwanese children went to school, they were been separated from the Japanese children which might be seemed as discrimination, the difference was that Japanese chief did not intend to make Taiwanese children become labor or servant when they grew up.


What impressed me most was whenever the tracker appeared and the three young children had almost been caught. Every moment, I hold my breath and blessed that they won’t be caught. The tracker’s eye was as sharp as eagle, his smell was as smart as dog and his brain was as clever as owl. But Molly was wiser than the tracker. First, she observed the weather and waited until it rain which could cleanse their footprints. Later on, Molly walked in the river to have their footprints vanish. Later, as they were almost caught at Mavis’s home, Molly used a broom to erase their footprints so as to pretend that they had escaped for at least one hour but actually, they lay on the bush. Next, Molly wore socks on the stones to make vague footprints. How alert Molly was! She did not make decision on impulse but acted before she thought it twice. In such a tough situation, even as for me, I could not calm myself down! Molly did a great job and finally went back home.

Movie Review: Solas

I was deeply touched by this movie. How amazing a mother’s love could be showed with non-verbal language and how lonely a senior citizen was when he had no wife and grandchildren accompanied him. As Maria was still a young girl, his drunken father gambled and beaten his family members. She could not withstand what his rude father had done so she left her parent’s house in the countryside and move to the city, working as a cleaner. One time, her father was sick and hospitalized. Rosa, Maria’s mother came to live with her but only for temporally, trying to build a bridge to communicate with her lovely daughter. Maria gradually quit smoking and drinking alcohol, treasuring the time she spent with her mother. A new born baby was her determination to be a responsible and respected mother for her own children. Though the children did not have a father who cared him but there were an adopted grandfather whose love would weight much more than anyone had ever thought.

Rosa quietly cared about her daughter as she hurt herself and even as she was pregnant. Basically, while I made mistakes, my mother would scold me first that made my mood went down to worse. At that moment, what I appreciated was a gentle and careful mother just as Rosa who without saying any words calmed her daughter by healing her broken heart. One time, Rosa glimpsed her daughter kissed by a man at the bar through the window. Maria was conscious of her mother who turned around and left without rushing into it. At that moment, Maria was guilt about what she had done－drinking alcohol and smoking. Additionally, in the movie, while there were leisure times, Rosa would sit down and knitted. Without any second thought, I guessed that she just knitted it for fun with no purpose. But, to my astonishment, a red sleeveless woolen vest and a pink baby cloth filled with a mother’s love was for her daughter－Maria. A person’s love could be express through words but the most impressive way was through action toward the one I cared about.

This was such a touching movie that I would like to recommend to three group of people. The first one was the teenagers who may ignore and misunderstand their parent’s care and than may do things that had already broken their parent’s heart. Another group was the offspring who had to share the senior citizen’s feelings and be patient about them. The last group was the single mother who should be brave to confront the difficulties even when her boyfriend was not willing to shoulder the burden of bringing up the baby. Solas was such an aspiring movie that it caught my attention thoroughly and every scene beat my heart violently.

Tired, but Satisfaction

Last weekend, I attended Freshman Welcome Camping. The weather in 浦心 camp was burning hot. I was almost melt into vapor and disappeared. The 浦心 camp was so big that from the entrance of 浦心 camp to our camp would take for about 20 minutes. How horrible it was! As the time I went home, my legs were paralyzed and with a lot of pain on it. We were as busy as bees and almost had no time to take a rest and enjoy our dinner. Often, most of us would either eat nothing but drink water or eat just a little food but still hungry. What's worse. We just slept for less than 1 hour a day in order to prepare the next day's activities. I had never burned the mid night oil and needless to say, I had never experienced the discomfort of murky on the next day. Unfortunately, it was our responsibilities to make the activities to be successful and colorful. Thus, we exhausted all of our energy to do our best to design every activities with the view to welcome our freshman and gave them an unforgettable experience in college life. To be honest, I was pleasant to be one of the members of this activities and served for freshman. To my satisfaction, we did it and our spirit of team work work out beyond our imagination. If there was a chance for me to choose whether I will attend this camp activities or not. Without doubt, and definitely, I will say Of course YES.

sick

Last Saturday, I went to National Taipei University of Technology to rehearse the freshman welcome camp. It was drizzling outside and as I arrived here, a chilly winds rushed into my face and quickly went through each part of my bodies. The merciless winds devour all of the energy I had. I just could not help but shaking my arms and legs to catch warm. As the music came out of the CD player, all of the dancers tried their best the show themselves and without doubt, they gain thunderous applause which was the best reward for they had worked hard since Auguest. Unfortunately, the next morning I felt dizzy and had sore throat. It was so uncomfortable that I had no appetite while the dinner served in front of me was the one that I loved. Not until October. 12 did I see a doctor. I had endured the sore throat and running nose for four days. Thus taking the medicine would be the best way to recover quickly. As soon as I slept for 2 hours, the pain started to relief gradually. Next time, I would wear a mask to prevent my nose from the blowing wind.

Movie Review: Emmanuel’s Gift

This is a toughed and encouraging film that changes my attitude toward handicapped people. Emmanuel was born with physical handicaps in Ghana, western Africa. It is said that those who have physical handicaps were cursed by the devil. Thus, there were no education or job opportunities offered for them. However, Emmanuel’s childhood was different from most handicapped children. Though abandoned by his father, he had a positive thinking mother who never gave up. Emmanuel had a dream of having a bicycle and rode across his country. Even though not having enough money and sound limbs, he wanted to prove the stereotypes put on handicaps were wrong. To his amazement, one of the founders of the CAF was impressed by Emmanuel’s beliefs. After the trip to the states, he had a new artificial limb and set up a goal to improve the handicaps’ life in Ghana. When returning home, he worked with The Free Wheel Chair Mission to make 100 simple wheelchairs. Those wheelchairs gave handicapped people dignity and pain-relieving
I now realize how important the family members have the impact on my achievements. It is the supporters that give me power to overcome every obstacle on my way to success. Without their encouragements and helps, I won’t have strong determination to challenge my self in order to make differences in my life. I remembered when I was 12 years old, my teacher praise me for doing an excellent job on calligraphy. That made me feels a sense of achievement. When I was in elementary school, junior high school and senior high school, I participated in all kinds of calligraphy contests. Whenever wining the price, I was really appreciated my teacher. Now, it became one of my favorite hobbies.
It is such an aspirating film that I would show this film to two different groups of people. The first group is government officials. For some of the African countries, the handicapped peoples should have allowances such as education allowances and health allowance. Another group is entrepreneurs who have to provide handicaps job opportunities and show equally respect for them. Everyone has its gifts and what our life would be depends on how we thought about our gifts. One thing I will keep in mind is that always said: “I hope I would do a great job as wonderful as those Emmanuel had done rather than luckily, I was not a handicap as Emmanuel.

Interpretation Course

In this semester, I take a Interpretation Course which make me anxious whenever I go to the classes. Today, I have to look at the computer screen to name numbers, some of them will be Chinese so I have to translate it into English. This irritate me very much because the way I name the Chinese numbers is totally different from English.
It costs me a lot of time to distinguished their differences. When it is time to test, I am too jittery that I almost forget what I had done at home. How upset I am! Also, this test contains the article which is about H1N1 and I have to interpret some of the sentences. Though I had read the article carefully before hand, I still get into big troubles. Maybe, I have to calm down so that I will have a clear brain to think.
Later, we practice some vocabularies about animals and plants and do shadowing practice at the same time. That is really difficult for me to catch up with the speaker. Some of the vocabularies are so familiar with each other that I just can not make the differences. After classes, I will check out all the vocabularies and memorize their pronunciations. Practice makes perfect.

Happy Birthday!!

Last Thursday, I received many wishes and gifts from my friends. How surprising it was! First, I had to thank for my friends who accompanied me whenever I was in troubles and my family who supported me. In this special moment, I set up many goals to achieve in the rest of two year college life.
1. to have a driver's license
2. to have a high grade on TOEIC test
3. to sharpen my social skill
4. to master Japanese

a whole new beginning

Writing always bother me. Whenever I make up my mind to write journal on a regularly basis, I finally will give it up. Because I just did not know how to express my feeling exactly in English, sometimes, I will type Chinese instead. While writing in English, my brain almost in a mess. But since it is a whole new beginning, I hope I will update my blog regularly. It would be a good chance for me to practice writing