Our English Tutors( Part Two)

Hi, I am back now! This is my last blog. I will try to write as much as possible XD.
Our Thursday tutor is Ms Yap. The first time she entered the classroom and said hello to us, I found her a graceful lady. She always wears beautiful tradition clothes which I learn a lot of Singapore culture from. Sometimes she will tell us about some Malays and my most familiar Hokkien which made our classroom very interesting. She only speaks English and Cantonese which make me have more chance to use English other than my mother tongue. When we talked about Ms Yap, we may think about a word that I will never forget which is "Subtle". Why? You may wonder the reason. Actually Ms Yap trained us not only to learn the word but also use the word. She always said " Subtle influence" to remind us to speak English everyday. Ms Yap always bring some traditional Singaporean food like Nian Gao (Whether it is called Gui here?) and share with us before New Year or some other days. She bring Indian dessert for us, too. We not only enjoy the food but also learn the Singaporean culture. For me, some Singaporean food is quite similar to some Hokkien food like the Nian Gao which makes me warm as if I was still celebrating the Spring Festival in my beloved hometown. Ms Yap's topic for oral reports are very difficult but I think it is nice to have chances to report in Thursday. We all remember the most classical topic is " If you are a .____ ( flag, one Singapore Dollar, a song,etc), explain your one-day life or what kind of song will you be" After our report, our tutor will give us her version which is very beneficial for us to learn how to describe things in a more native way. Anyway, thanks to Ms Yap so we learn some different and useful things,too.
The last tutor is Qizhong. You may wonder what I am so rude to call him directly without proper address. If you come to our class, you will understand the reason. The first time I saw him, I guess the whole class are shocked. He wore the earphone and carried a cup of coffee.He was in a very hip-hop style cool dressing!  He looked like a student among us and sometimes he seemed to be regarded as a student who enter the teacher office without permission. He is a very easy-going person. From him, I learnt an different aspect of Singapore youth life style. To tell the truth, I really learnt a lot of things from him, I mean the attitude or some other things which I cannot learn from our " American" textbook. You know we all live in Singapore and we will stay in Singapore for at least ten years, but after half year in Singapore. It is essential for us to know more about local people. He is a musician so he need to play a lot of shows in his spare time. Sometimes he will show us the video which recorded his playing. I used to go to Mosaic Music Festival at Esplande to see his performance. I was very happy to see a person I known  foreign country!!! He told us what happened to him in his life and shared his true feeling to us. He told us about his high school life and the university life. We cannot experience the Singapore Junior College life and we are lucky to get this chance to know about the local high school life. He will set aside the books sometimes and analysis our English essay for a long session. Since his major in Linguistics, he told us about a lot of professional knowledge. Even though we cannot remember all of them but we have a better understanding in how to write the native English essays.

From my two blog, I guess you must have a overview about our four tutors. As our senior said, the four tutors shall be very different. I cannot help praising the arrangement done by CELC. Our four tutors all tried their best to help us adjust ourself to the new life here. They brought their stories to us. They shared their views with us. I am very lucky to have chance to listen to our four tutors' classes. Now the English Bridging Course is going to end. I hope all the best to our four tutors and our group members. Thanks to all of you, we are not alone in this country. I hope we all can get a nice result in our QET. Thanks again to our tutors sincerely !