[MS16] Nguyễn Mai Anh – CENSIP 6BF

Well, every students will always have dream of being a member of a specialized like Amsterdam, HIV Lang school ( as you all know as “gifted”). Sometimes, I think I will never be one of those because you know those schools are only for an extremely hard-working, talented, intelligent people. But what about me? First of all, I have to admit that I am a very stupid, also have a weak standard of knowledge, lazy, untalented child or to say in an effortless way that I am not that kind of talent. Oh my god! I am always being reprimanded by my mom and dad. They always say (say is a little bit weird because they never ever say ‘nice’ thing about my studies), well back to the early point, they say anything that make me from feeling so enthusiastic back to the thinking of ‘why do I have to study?’ And you know when you hear something over again and again and again, it sounds like an overused phrases , just like to empoison your immature, young soul and I am tired of hearing it, though, I didn’t even try to make sense of those things! Until I met Roadmap, the place that transform me from a girl who loses hope in herself, who never even gives herself a chance to discover the potential that is hidden inside her for that long, who always think that she is very pygmean and the opportunity of emulating political opponents can seem like pie-in-the-sky fantasy into a girl who has a lot of self-confidence, who always wants to take a risk to rumble the new things so as to jeopardize taking part in so many competitions. 
As the first time I met Roadmap, I thought It would be just like other centers such as: Language Link, Apax, etc. but why did so many students desire to learn in this center that much, why did they always act demoniacal like that and I just thought Roadmap must have something that can have effect on them. But what, I inquisitorial asked myself, I couldn’t get it, what possibly stayed behind those people, what was the thing that exhort them and there was the only way to clear up queries that was to experience the same as them. And now, when I remember that time when I decided to learn here, to put all my faith in Roadmap, I am proud to say that my decision that moment was clairvoyant, judicious. And I would like to say to all of you that: ‘If you’re trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I’ve had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it. Just take a risk, it doesn’t cost much, if it failed it just brings you another chance to prove yourself to the world!’.
 Roadmap is a whole new, mysterious world that you can only sail through it to go deep inside, to discover and there is no other choice because on the way to success, there is no trace of lazy men. Roadmap is a very special center, it is the place where you can freely express yourself, where you can uphold your strength without afraid of being punished by some idiot rules, where you can speak to your teacher as your friends, they understand you, and where you can laugh as much as you can, talk, ask whenever you want that not worried about stressful atmosphere, where you just work and work and work all day, do the same thing day after day, etc. Coming to this center is that you have given yourself an amazing opening to find the key to success where you can walk from this door to the other so at the end you can arrive at the goal you dream to reach. At Roadmap, you will not just receive knowledge from your guide but also from the people that we called ‘family’ in a home of school, you can gather together, talk to each other so you can know more about them. Trying to enlarge the things that you advised about the world, investigate the aperture in your cognize by talking to your friends, learning from them is the best way to improve your English and Roadmap facilitates us to do that. But this center also brings out in us the competitive characteristic while we – the children in one family as we all called ‘siblings; compete with their own ‘comrades’, this also creates us sensitive response when you have to work out the strategy to bring your team to victory and defeat your opponents in a breathtaking way. Well, at least that the impact it had on me. At the time I learnt at Roadmap, well, as you know (I have introduced in the first paragraph) I am a nervous girl and very scared of standing in front of the crowd and of course when I am grudgingly stick into this problem I will never ever get on top of it (I mean I will blush or sometimes I cry so I will do anything to do not have to give a presentation). Since I studied here everything has changed, my teacher Elly , I have to say she is so wonderful because she has brought out the best in me, she always takes an eye on me, teaches me everything that I need to know. While the education I receive in Roadmap has indeed helped a lot in bringing out the ‘leadership’ quality within myself, I am well aware that doesn’t mean the many other characteristics representing other people’s individuality are abandoned. Sometimes I think to myself that as if I can’t do it, if I just always be a loser, be a person who doesn’t have future? Sometimes I just want to give up, to default and at that time I thought- no matter how hard I tried I just still be there and I felt down-hearted. Then the people who beside me at that time, the people who give me courage to carry on, to continue my target, they always there when I need a shoulder to cry, an ear to hear me disembosom, an eye to look at me with sympathetic and an arm to hug me when I am desperate, those people are always my parents and a lovely, genial Roadmap home. I love the teachers so much, every teachers that I have learnt since semester 5, I still remember until now, I respect them and look at them with my admiration, with all of my recent heart, they are so friendly and kind, their lessons just like a flowing river, a blowing light wind that make your mind full up and I really have to say that being their student is my honor. If I have a chance to say something I would say:’ YOU ALL ARE MY BEST TEACHERS EVER!’

And when looking at the yearbooks, fascinated flipping through the pages of all different generations of students and emotively reading the way they express their feelings about each other. It reminds me of all the memories that I had with my comrades, the fraternal loves that we had for each other, the time when we fight, laugh, I am really attached with. Looking through all the days had passed, I feel really begrudged, I missed that moment so much, missed a lot and a lot. You know I am here, the concomitant I have here has been 5 semesters, I am here at semester 9 so that mean there will only 1 semester left that I have to say goodbye to them, to my family , to the teachers and to Roadmap. All time I got there I have improved a lot, thanks to this center, all the friendships that have become so closed now it is really hard to cut it off and I really do not want that happens at all, no one wants- but everyone will have time they have to be away, far far away, I will miss them a lot, really.
For all the things that I have written I think you will all know how pregnancy does Roadmap meant to me. It not just a center, it is a friend, a wonderful friend where consists of many important parts of my life, I have learnt a lot, not just English but many characteristics have appeared within me, I own Roadmap a deep feeling of gratitude. And I really pride on claiming to my friends after 2 years learning at Roadmap that: ‘I AM PROUD OF BEING A MEMBER OF ROADMAP ENGLISH CENTER!”