找自己 -- “Grandma’s Penghu Bay”
“Oh, your English is so good!” is a comment I have heard a few times. Now, this may be a trigger, not a compliment, for Asian Americans that were born and raised in the U.S., since the speakers assume that it is not possible for these Asian Americans to be born here and English would never have been their first language. But for me, it’s a real compliment, a huge one. I want to thank them for recognizing all those hours of my hard work memorizing English vocabulary and verb conjugations since middle school English class, and even until now, I am still learning this language everyday. A Life-Long English Learner Learning English was not easy or natural for me at all. I remember one of my earliest English learning experiences was probably in fifth grade from my homeroom teacher. She had this vision that English is going to be useful for these little eleven-year-olds in the future, so she started to write down an English word a day on the blackboard for us to memorize, and “sandwich” bec...
