Recall of This Semester

After taking several exams, I finally reach the end of this semester which marks my first semester at GDUFS. How time flies! I have studied here for nearly four months. During this period of time, I have experienced and learned a lot.

Since I did not major in English before, I was not quite accustomed to attending classes taught in English, which seemed so strange to me. Nor did I understand what  syntax or transformational-generative grammar was at the very beginning. I still remember how nervous I was when I took my first consecutive interpreting class. My hands were almost sweating from the start to the end and my mind turned into a blank sheet every time the teacher asked one of us to interpret. I remember how embarrassed I was when I made my first presentation about a topic that I have never heard before and I couldn't even answer the question put forward by the teacher. I also remember those days when I was burdened with so much homework that sometimes I had no spare time to have supper. But fortunately, I finally got used to the new environment and I gradually got to know some important concepts about translation studies and linguistics. Everything began to go smoothly.