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...Life on the Rock

"Who a person is, is the most important. Rose die fast, but grass stay beautiful forever. People should not worry about what they are not, but should embrace and love what they are."

My name is Sialanapa Panyapim. I'm 22 years old I was born on a fine sunny day in March 4, 1989. My hometown is in Mahasarakham province. I am an only child and lives with parents since I was born. I started school when I was five-years-old. In term of study, many people said that I am a good student, and always be nice both at school and home. On the other hand, I’m not good in sports even badminton, volleyball, basketball or tennis. I prefer to be a cheerleader or a fan of football player.

The elementary school I attended was Luckmuang Mahasarakham School. Elementary. My favorite grade while attending the school was the fourth grade. The reason why I love the third grade so much was that I made my first GPA.=4.00. I would had made the A honor roll if I had not made a 3.00 in Mathematics. In addition, my fourth grade teacher, Miss Sa-art was my favorite teacher while attending elementary school. At school, I had been participated a lot of school’s activity. For example, I use to be a representative of speaking and writing language skill contests. I was the actor on the stages. However, I made a few close friends while attending elementary school because I am a kind of seclusive girl. I love to be only with myself or my mom. I don’t like to talk too much but I can do my best if I have to do.

Things had changed during my secondary school years. Watching cartoons were for kids and I was real close of being a teenager. Some of my friends went to other middle school, which means that I had to start over again finding new friends. The middle school I attended was Phadungnaree school. The school was five kilometers away from home so I drove my motorcycle to school every day. My favorite grade in middle school was the eighth grade. The reasons were that I made 4.00 for the second time, I met interesting people that were cool, and I started participating in school activities. I made some friends at school, but one of them was surprising. Bow was the first good friend I made while in the secondary school, it is Phadungnaree school. We would always play and learn with each other in class. At that time, she is so crazy in English; in contrast, I am a huge fan of Thai. Many friends said that it seems to be very hard that we can be in the same way, but actually we learn the differences. We always exchange each other in term of learning languages. She was the only student in my third grade class to make the A honor roll. She was the main reason why I made the A&B honor roll. Whenever I had a problem with my schoolwork especially in English, she would always help me out. We have been being close friend from nowadays. Other friends I made were Jum, Mee and Nun. They are so crazy and very lovely friends. We would always team up together on group assignments. Moreover, we had spent most of the times in school to have a really fun activities together. During my years in middle school, we became friends. We would get together and like to talk about everything.

During my secondary school years, I found out that I have talent in language skill especially Thai language. I proved myself in many activities in the school’s special day. Many teachers appreciated me and let me to be a representative. I started participated in school activities especially in the ninth to twelfth grade. I tried out for reading, speaking and writing Thai skills. I became one of the best in these skills in the school and province at that time. For many times that I had an opportunity to go to the contest in Bangkok. Some were good and some were not very good, but I was happy to do so. My favorite contest is speech contest in the topic about our beloved king. It was one of memorable times in my life.

Around 3 months before I graduated the secondary school, I have been studying in the extra course about English in order to prepare for the biggest test. I found out another fun language surprisingly. At first, I could not believe that I could learn English and understand it easily. Then, I start to go on studying for many courses, like grammar, listening and speaking. Actually, my ambition is to study about linguistic in Bangkok. On the other side, my mom wanted me to enter to be an English teacher in Mahasarakham university. Finally, everything is alright because of my mom’s decision. I graduated from Phadungnaree school and became the first year student in the university. For a month, I always cried about being unhappy when I was finally entered in English major. But now that is was finally over, it was not as worst as I thought. It was the time to open a new chapter of my life.

For four years since I studied in the university, my life changed a lot. I have to study more and more about English. Not only communicating skills that we have to practice in class, but also in the field of using in dairy life, we have to join to English camp. In addition, I was trying to earn a living by working while studying. I have been a tutor in many courses. It was great experiences to practice my teaching techniques. While studying,in summer I have been creating camp for the children in my village. Teaching for free with my older brother who is my villager in the temple made me feel unfamiliar at first but it made me happy in finally. Thanks for my brother, who help me to teach and entertain the children.

When I don't have anything to do, I love to surf the internet, open my mail, facebook then watch some interesting video on youtube. I play a lot of chatting programs with my foreigner friends to practice my English skill and update some new things. Most of my spare time I love to practice English from many websites. In addition, beside teaching at the tutor center I usually go to make merit at the temples in Mahasarakham every Saturday. Some friends who have a problem or sad with their life always come together with me. It is not means that I always sad or have a problem but making merit is the best way for me to be a giver. Going out side to buy things to donate or make merit at the temple help me not to be lonely. My favorite colors is light violet. My friends see me as an artist girl because I prefer to be alone and just follow or do what I want to do. Sometimes it’s quite hard to know what exactly I am . However , I’m a kind of giver. I have a good heart and honest friend. I am pretty much on the happy side of life, but like all teens I do I have my "days of." That means I do have some sad days or depressed days. I have a few friends here at the same dorm for look out for me and when I am having a bad day. The most in fluency person in my life is my mom. When everything in my life is going to be sad who I can trust and who trusts me is she. I make my study days go by thinking of either the next hour or what I will do when I get home or on the weekend. I'm not seeing anyone now, really! So, I’m absolutely single.

The year 2012 will be the time I will graduate from the university. I think I will probably be still living here at Mahasarakham with my parents. As I said in the beginning, I was born here in Mahasarakham and I've lived here my whole life. For my plan in the future, I used to have a lot of plans.. From now on , I have come to realize that sometimes when I plan ahead too much, and then what happened doesn’t go as planned then I feel discouraged. Right now all I have is a short term plan . I want to be the best in whatever I do.