James Chan

I have never thought that I could give people a lecture to share with them my story but it happened today. Invited by one of my best friends who is a teacher in Lishui University from where I graduated, I prepared a short presentation and went there.

Before the session began, I was a little nervous but I got back to a normal state after few times of deep breaths. After I entered to the room, I found out that there were 3 classes of students, more than 70 students, it was the biggest “meeting” I ever had. It was exciting.

Throughout the presentation I used English but I was not sure if they understood completely as they are freshmen. Fortunately and what comforted me was that applauses continued quite a while after I finished my presentation.

During the Q&A period, unexpectedly there were 3 of them who asked questions. I didn’t think that in China, students would be responding to Q&A initiatively. Those were good questions and I answered them with details and my thoughts. Hope my answers were helpful to them. I think for the rest of the students, they had questions but were too afraid to ask. The situation should be changed in Chinese education, I think.