Day 10
We started our second last
day in Stanford with full and tasty breakfast. Next, we attended creative writing
lesson. The professor gave us 20 minutes to write a short story at the start of
the class. We then shared it with our group mates. We also learned about the
ice berg theory which uses subtle text to convey meanings instead of using
direct languages. We read a few short stories and identified the skills they
used. Apart from that, we were each given two chocolates. We had to write a
poetic ode comparing the two of them thus emphasizing how one chocolate tasted
much better than the other. We ended the lesson by reading out loud our poem in
groups. It was an interesting lesson.
After lunch, we had a
non-verbal communication lesson. Out of our expectation, the lesson was very
interactive and interesting. The teacher taught us different techniques of
expression like body gesture, voice, eye contact etc. It was really useful for
our final presentation and future use. We like the way how he did his
presentation using his body language which was eye-catching. Though the lounge
was rather hot and stuffy, it did not affect our ambitious learning
attitude. At the end, two of us volunteered to do a one minute speech in
front of the whole class which we received feedbacks from the teacher after. We
indeed had a wonderful time.
Then we went for an admission
talk from which we learnt a lot about the ways of admitting and the
requirements for admission. We understood more about personal statement and
the exams we have to take before the application. We found the talk very useful
as we loved this place so much after visiting and Stanford is definitely one of
our dream schools. After the talk we went back to the dorm for dinner!
We had pizza for dinner, with flavors of cheese, Hawaii, meatballs and
vegetarians, we had a delicious meal!
Jackie Fung, Maisie Luk, Michelle Ng, Kelly Ng
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