Learn from the Past

Looking back upon my English learning path in the past 4 months, I was overflowed with mixed feelings of joy and sorrow. For from this semester, I started to break away from high school learning and picked up the way of learning English as an

undergraduate. There have been many setbacks and hardships I have never been faced with before in learning English. Nevertheless, believing that there are always more methods than difficulties, I manages to overcome them and made some progress. Personally, the secret to learning English well is to develop a deep interest when you are learning English. In other words, I mean that you are supposed to be trapped in English when you are learning so that you can get the points you want to get. As an illustration, there was a time when my thoughts wandered, I spent two hours in memorizing words of a unit. Though I spent a long time, I didn’t really comprehend the words. And the next day I even could not spell the word. But when I concentrate on the words, I just need 40 minutes or less to grasp the words of a unit. To promote efficiency and address this challenge, I reflected on this matter. Nowadays, if I am going to do some reading or write papers, I will first ask myself a question “are you ready to devote yourself to English now ?” If my answer is “no”, I won’t start the work as it is no use learning English without attention. In this way, I learn English for greater efficiency. The grades of my words’ dictation are always more than 90 now. Specifically , using some learning strategies which maybe just fit me, to some

extent ,I have made progress in my poorest parts of English, listening and vocabulary. I am attached to the belief that even if I do not understand, I have to listen. In my eyes, whether I can understand the context or not, listening is always studying. Although the temporary I do not understand, but my eardrum has begun trying to adapt to a new language pronunciation, adjusting the frequency of my brain, ready to accept a new information code, which itself is a leap. When at the beginning of this term, I was not able to clearly understand the VOA special English. However, I keep the habit of listening to the VOA special English unremittingly every day. And for now, I can more or less catch up with the rate of the special one.

Besides, the most common method of learning English is to remember words. Although the words of the explanation is dead, the use of language is alive and

mechanical understanding will cause great misunderstanding. At first, I tried to memorize as many new words as I can owing to my poor vocabulary. However, I found I just memorized the spellings of these words but didn’t know how to take them into effect. Thus, I changed my way. The word is not the most important, the key is context. Firstly, I read the verbs and recite their paraphrase and spelling. Then, I write down the words. After that, I learn the sentences and tie to apply the new words in my expressions of ideas. After everything is over, I write down their paraphrases and get a better understanding of the words. This method not only enables me to concentrate on the words, but also provide precious handwriting for me to review. Since I followed this method, I gradually can appropriately use the words I have learned recently into my writings and spoken English.

Believe in that nothing is impossible with a willing heart. I will persist exploring learning methods and am ready for the challenges in the future.

 

第二篇：Reflection essay

Reflection essay

Parkway college student:

HU DIE (NNDN 108025)

This is my first time come to A & E department for attachment. It is very different from what I think it all about. We can see some "interesting cases" here. Like one finger been cut off, fall down lead to head bleeding, very bad fever and most excited part is I saw some prison case. This is I never saw before. And I heard CGH is the only place treat the police case.

First day we just do some orientation about this hospital. Know where is where, but I was very confuse that day. This area is very complicate for me. But second day I go to nurse station in the morning and observation room in the afternoon. In the nurse station, we do some treatment for patient. Like dressing, give nebulizer, give IM injection( e.g. ATT injection), do ECG, eye irrigation, sometimes fleet enema, guide the patients where to wait where to go for x ray, provide urine test bottle, and IV infusion Most time we are doing all this. The most impression case was the patient's finger be cut off, bleeding all over. He is really in pain. I feel very scared. Just stand there watch what the staff do. Stop bleeding. And send to the doctor.

Then afternoon i went to observation room, in observation room, some patient come for observe only, but some wait for admission, send they to the ward, during this period, we do vital signs, HGT, give oxygen, monitor ECG depending on the patients' condition. Really can see some patients are very sick. And scream all over. We should calm they down, support their emotion. Luckily I got chance to stand in minor operation room, see two minor operation there. A child's head was bleeding because of fall down. And another case was drainage out the pus from the buttock.

But I think one challenging place for nurses is triage, the nurse should ask every single patient about their history and current complain, pain score, then decide to send to which doctor's room. We must be very observing there. How the patient appears to you. Is he/she in pain? Or any other problems. Then the triage nurses will consultant the patient. Chart down the vital signs, if the patient has diabetes, check the hypocount, if blood pressure really high, we must check hypocount also. It's really a challenge place. If the patient is very sick, then the patient will be sending to resuscitate room straight away. I saw the nurses and doctors work together there. Resuscitate the patient, usually the patient in resuscitate room is very weak. And the doctors are very nice, teach us a lot, how to diagnose patient, assess patient. Most of the patients are elderly. Emergency case, the staffs there work very fast. Most of the patient will be done an ECG, vital signs, that's the basic things need to do to the patient there. We must learn to act fast there. Anything we do not understand must ask. The patients' life's are in our hands.

I got one chance to do CPR in a real patient. The patient needs to be

resuscitated. Find that in real situation is different from the theory, we no need to count how many compression have delivered, just do, finally we cannot save the patient's life. I really hope the theory in our

book can happen, hope he can come back. But it never happens. Make me feel very sad. When the doctor said: wait for the line to be flat. Really feel so

sorry to the patient. We cannot save him. I hope in the future, no such things happen anymore!

A & E is a very fast action place, otherwise we may lose patient very fast. Not every patient can be save back to life.

During this posting, we really can learn a lot, and the staffs are very nice to us. Teach us. No matter what I did not understand, they will explain very patiently to me.