It was really fun to watch and enjoyed the event. It was a nice experience. https://www.flickr.com/photos/129372979@N02/15784757505/

MONOLOGUE

My name is Emily and I was born 18 years ago in a small country named Ecuador, which coincidentally is part of South America too.

Learning languages has being part of my life since I was little and transition from Cantonese to Spanish in kindergarten was hard, or so I think it was.

As I grew older, English was taught to me and the more I learned, the more I enjoyed it.
Isn’t it fun to speak different languages at different times?

You know that TV and its different shows can affect us in a way, be it good or bad, k-dramas and anime have inspired me to know more about Korea and Japan.
Enjoying other cultures and its languages is entertaining to me.

Now moving on, college came in a blink of an eye, and so far it’s being pretty good.
Enjoying college life and being with friends I made here in Baruch, for that I’m grateful for the last orientation day in which one of the last schedules I got.

Hey! My name is Emily Ng.

I was born in Ecuador, a small country in South America, which by the way has various breath taking sceneries that you could see in the different regions that it is divided into. What I mean is that you could go from an island to a beautiful beach to the highlands and also to the rain forest, also there are  cities in there so please do not think I live in the wild! But I’m telling the truth about being able to see different sides of the same country.

Okay, so onto the next thing. I couldn’t find a picture of my whole family in the moment I’m writing this so I just decided to use this one instead. In the photograph you can see my mom, dad, my sister and me —I guess I was five when they took that picture— but who is missing from that picture is my youngest sister who I also deeply love. I have to add up that; yes, I am from Ecuador, but my dad is from Hong Kong and my mom from mainland China hence why I look like an asian girl.

I am quite sure that I had a small class compared to most of the people who might be reading this. The people in the picture below are my classmates & friends, something interesting about that is that I’ve been with most of them my whole life. Yup, I’ve been with them since I was 3 years old, so I had people recently tell me how they somehow must be like a family to me which might be true in a way.
Okay, in my school I started to learn Spanish (first language) and English for the most part when I was in kindergarden, so I don’t really know if it was hard or not to learn them because I have no recollection of how I learnt them. But since English is my second language, I don’t have the best pronunciation and grammar but I must say thanks for understanding my situation and being so kind to me.

College started and here I am at Baruch! Since I’m an international student every single experience and sight is new to me which I find quite exciting. I really am enjoying my time here and even when there are times in which I miss my family and friends from back home, I understand that everything will be fine because it’s not like I lost them plus I still have their total support which helps me a lot. So I’m currently dorming and even if it’s kind of far from Baruch campus, I actually get a beautiful view everyday of the city which I was thankful for because I was wishing that it better not be a brick wall.

I joined a club called “Ascend” that helps you not only in a professional aspect but also in a social one. I might have to say that it is one of the best decisions I’ve made until now because its hard to meet people in a new environment and joining clubs truly helps you with that. And as far as I know, people here at Baruch are really nice and eager to help you — because as everyone always say: “They all went through the same”—.
That’s everything I had to say and so that concludes my first blog post.