自強之路

                                                                                                      
Sample of brief oral self-introduction

Dear Professors, Landies, and Gentlemen,
my name is Christian Chiou, 18 years old, going to be graduated from NTNU High School this year. I have a wonderful family in Hsin-tien with my parents, siblings, and I love them very much. I also have many friends for I do have lots of hobbies and never feel too tired to participate in any activity I'm interested in. I am happy to be with people around. It is always a great thing to work together with friends. I am not a person with quick temper, easy going, and, well, according to them, I'm considerate in many cases. So, they like to be with me too. I am proud and with all my pleasure when they call me Chris and need my help any time.

Piano, jazz drums, golf and martial arts are my faithful companies along the way besides ordinary studying every day. Piano music reveals a christalic, pristine melodies that embrace the nobility of human souls. Jazz drum beats introduce me a rhythmic stamina to dance with the instant passion of liveliness. Golf teaches me how to keep calm and prudent especially when facing inevitable fear and trouble, offering me the courage to overcome the weakness and blindness of myself. Martial arts are good ways to build me up fitness, agility, and beauty of equilibrium and power. They are, in my opinion, some essential ways to true well-being, an initiation into the gateway of serving in our world.

Among various subjects I've learned and I am now engaging in, I like foreign language catagory best, especially English, which might be the single incentive for me to have further studying later in college. In fact, I spend quite a lot of time reading English stories, English current news, writing articles in English, talking with people in English, and even trying thinking in an "English" way. I believe language is crucial to knowing a culture better and a foundamentality to successful mutual communication, with which a real success from every walk of life might be resulted in.

What is then a "real success"? To me, a real success is to help others live better, get together more harmoniously, know themselves about where they should head for, and, most importantly, realize what they are for. A real success consists of such awarenesses along with a positive attitude, which is exactly as Paul, a great disciple of Jesus Christ, once said, "I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before." Indeed, I will reach forth unto those things which are before, which are awaiting me to explore, to understand, and to improve.

I am really honored to have an opportunity to introduce myself today. And thank you very much for your listening.