This evening, I met up with Ken, who graduated from NHSH around 10 years ago and who I taught in the Advanced English class in his first year. The class met only two hours a week on Friday afternoon, but his passion for English and hard work impressed me deeply and since then we've had a lot to share whenever we met. We often talk about the books we are reading or have read. Like today, he recommended the novel Still Alice, which he's finished. The novel was adapted into a movie playing in Taiwan now.
Ken is serving in the army. He asked for leave this evening so that he didn't need to hurry back by 9 o'clock. We did enjoy our chat until around 9:20.
At today's gathering, Ken told me something I didn't know before. In his first year of high school, during his long commute to and from school, he used to listen to Studio Classroom from the CD player. He usually listened to the same lesson twice or three times every day. He got so familiar with the teacchers' conversation that he could speak along with the teachers at the third listening. Now he still keeps those old issues of Studio Classroom, with each page dotted with notes. His story proves that excellence doesn't arrive without effort.
The following is the trailer of the movie:
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