ESSAY : My English Teacher

Author : Phan Truong Hong Nhi – 10A
School : Bac Lieu Specialized Upper Secondary

TOPIC:

The woman you
love/admire most


My English teacher – the artist who drew my present and bight future

Everybody has a woman to love and admire. So do I. The woman I admire most is not my mother or my grandmother, it is my English teacher, who drew the way leading to my bright future.

Since the first day at my secondary school, I have known about her – a famous English teacher with excellent qualification. She has just retired this year at the age of 55 but she looks very beautiful because she usually goes jogging in the morning. She is little short and rather fat. She has curly hair. Her lifestyle is so wonderful that I admire her and look her up very much. She like doing clear work and catching clear things. Her voice is also extremely soft, especially when she speaks English. However, I could not have any chances to study with her in grade 6. My result of studying English was very poor so in the summer between grade 6 and grade 7, I asked my friend to help me apply for studying English in her class at her home. I was accepted, so glad!

Then I have tried my best to study English. I became the best student in English in my class. I got so many good marks. Therefore, I love English more and more, I decided to make English my major subject. There were many reasons leading me to do that such as my gift, my hobby but the most important reason is that my English teacher is a wonderful woman so I want to ape her.

At the end of grade 7, I achieved the second prize of the Good Students Contest in my school. I miss only 0.2 mark to reach the first prize because of my carelessness. I made my teacher so sad. I promised myself to try more and more. Nevertheless, in the summer between grade 7 and grade 8, a shock event happened in my family: my parents divorced each other. She understood my bad condition so she didn’t get any fee when I was studying at her home. However I was so upset. I became tired of studying. This bad time lasted for 2 years.My results of studying was worse and worse. She was very angry at me. She said:
“If you don’t control yourself, I will leave you, I won’t care of you anymore. To live well in this life, people must be strong, mustn’t give up their dreams though every bad condition happens.”
Those sentences aren’t soft but I love them, I remember them forever.

However, I understood this lesson too late. I failed the Good Students Contest in my province in grade 9. She has been extremely angry at me and hasn’t cared of me anymore. I cried very much. My mom said:
“I feel your love for her is even more than for me, you are scared of her but you aren’t scared of me.”.
But my mother was wrong, I love both, no love is the same as one other so we can’t compare our love. I really love my English teacher and look her up very much but I made many mistakes that can’t be forgiven by her. Other way, she always finds some of my information from my friends. My friends told me that, they also said she was still angry at me. I know my mistakes: I went overnight many times, I behaved badly to my mother, I played with bad friends. I also understood how she felt. I am her closed student but I made her unsatisfied. I regret doing so many bad things.

Luckily, I did rather well in my examination in the beginning of this school – year so I was accepted to study in Bac Lieu Specialize Upper Secondary School. In that glorious day, I came to her house to visit her but she didn’t want to meet me. I am still very sad now. I haven’t met her for a long time. I really miss her very much.

She is very important to me. She drew my present and my future. She made me stronger, helped me realize my mistakes, helped me come over my bad condition. I deeply understand her love for me. She left me alone to grow up and come over.

Although she is still very angry at me and I don’t know when she can forgive me, I deeply love her and look her up. I wish I could have a chance to express my sorry and my love for her but my wish seems too hard to happen. I will never forget what she taught me. I will try my best to study well in order to reduce my regret and show her my good future because I want her to smile because her smiles make me stronger and more confident to do everything.


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