Sol Lee/Writing experience(Week 2)/Thursday 1~3 p.m.

 I had positive image about writing since I was a little. When I was high school student, there was annual essay contest which makes me a bit nervous. It was natural because that was namely a test, but I was a bit excited. At that time, students had been only learned something, so listening and reading were everyday routine. That was actually really boring, because we had little chance to express our idea. Speaking and writing seemed far away from us. I think that's the reason I looked forward to the essay test. This idea still remains my mind, so that I have written a lot of letter to someone who I care about. However, this all image is restricted when I remind of Korean writing.

 When I think about English speaking and writing, I feel both love and hatred. When I first experienced English speaking and writing, it was absolutely interesting. That's because I can express my idea and feeling with totally different language which has different character and different sound. That makes me really happy and that's the first motivation to leaning on English. I didn't care about grammar, collocation, vocabularies especially other's attention. I didn't have to care about other's point of view about my English speaking and writing. I repeated good sentences over and over and use it in my writing. When I recalled that time, English speaking and writing is just a play for me. I had a full of confidence no matter who talk about my speaking and writing.

 That was initial emotion before I entered HUFs. I was actually bit afraid to take writing and speaking class, but I had courage to overcome it. My first class was 'writing class', there's foreign professor in front of the classroom. He spoke really fast which I was hardly to understand. What made me more surprised is the students who is speaking and writing seem really perfect. That was just my perspective. I was freezing and then I took 'Introduction of interpretation and translation' that also made me lose confidence. I knew that's an excuse, but that's the point I got afraid of English. At that time, I could speak my idea clearly with not fancy words, but I couldn't open my mouth and writing was a burden in my university. I was totally lose my confidence and gave up everything just mumbling 'I have to do this'. As time goes by, my English ability is in same level.

 One day, I found I'm really interested in working in international company. That's why I tried not to avoid this. I already knew my weakness, for example lack of language and not knowing about the original context. Through this class, I want to recover all of this.