Joe Zhang
Student in Arcadia, California
Joe Zhang
Student in Arcadia, California
I am a student currently living in Arcadia, California. My interests range from Language, to Teaching. I am also interested in Communication, Exercise, and Children.
As an first-generation immigrant from china, who his parents left "relentlessly"(for my own good), I read book and studied vocabularies to gain proficiency in the English language, and successfully left the ELD program in two years(my English was one of the worst in my grade level). In the process, the complexity and deepness of English enchanted me and made me to reexamine similar qualities in my Mother-tongue. Later, in 10th grade, I put my experience from learning English into my Spanish study, and it worked out quite well. more recently, Russian, German and French interest me much, and I am spending an hour each to get a grip at them.
I grew fond with Children, naturally, since a long time ago, and I am passionate to share my tri-langural learning experience with children to enhance their language-acquiring experience.
"Deep questions" like "why" is my favorite, and analysis served me well, therefore I would infiltrate those ideas into minds of children who I will interact with.
Besides language, children and teaching, I believe firmly, with mind and body, on a healthy life style, which translate into a vegetable, fruit and fiber rich diet and modest, one and half hour exercise consist of weight carrying(endurance) and horse stance(a Chinese traditional basic training of Kong Fu dedicated at increasing the stamina, strength, and reaction of practitioners).
Travel does not love me-I did not create opportunities to travel-I love it anyway. To me, it is to learn a new culture/renovate one's preexisting idea about culture, and, moreover, is a method to learn about languages.