( Long Yifan, Oct 24,2014) With warm-lit interior atmosphere and confidence-fulfilled speakers, italk, the only self-operated English talk show in Tsinghua University, has been offering students feast of English language for almost one decade. Each session, usually on Thursday night, invites gleaming campus celebrities to tell their own special stories.
For this week, the tradition goes on. Wen Chongyi, a member of Tsinghua voluntary teaching team for desolate areas in Western China, talked about her experience teaching in Huangnan Tibetan Autonomous Region, Qinghai Province this summer. “Meeting beautiful people in a remotely beautiful places is an unforgettable memory for me.” She also articulated the project called Supporting Dream, demonstrating the working framework which includes a series of affiliated programs such as book donation and mentor guidelines in her well-organized power point and high-pitched English speech.
Wen Chongyi is telling her volunteer teaching story.
The future robotic clubs, consisting of members majoring at economics, software, automation, physics and engineering etc., is a hybrid of brainstorming. According to their words, they create a variety of robots such as Mechnoid, a small-scale robotic machine and quadcopter, a mini robotic-programmed helicopter used for taking aerial photo or video. Later on, their sample of aerial video of the Color Run event triggered audience’s interest with a condescendingly bird view of the flamboyant running crowds within the campus.
The third speaker, a 19-year-old undergraduate Xu Jiaming, elaborated her romantic story with music. “I was trained to play the Zhongruan, a traditional Chinese stringed music instrument, 10 hours a day. My mother, a stern high school teacher wouldn’t let me fiddle with my leisure time”, said she with a slight dissenting connotation. By displaying her long-worn fingers with callus in PPT, she continues, “ I am a member of Traditional Orchestra of Tsinghua because of my mom and the ever-lasting practices. Thanks to her.” Her speech ended with the a performance collaborated with her orchestra friends.
The last speaker, an alumnus graduating 2 years ago, showed her entrepreneurship in developing and producing revolutionary products that utilize state of the art wireless charging technology in her fluent English proficiency.
Xu Jiaming is playing her Zhongruan.
“I enjoy this show because it is relaxing to sit here and enjoy storytelling”, said Liu Xingming, a 21-year-old undergraduate. Many other audiences agreed with his opinion, making theirs consents with a high participation during the Q&A session. Lin Chaotin, a 25-year-old graduate of engineering, said he will come back to see more interesting stories next week.
