The Happiest Day I've Ever Had

On December 6th, Eriko and I had a presentation in front of the 100 people as audience. Before that day, I was really nervous and I couldn't eat lunch and dinner because my brain was full of the presentation. The time before when I had to appear on the stage, Chris, the last conversation teacher came to me. He wore a yellow shirt, I know what he meant. When he wear yellow, he is the sun and that means GOOD LUCK. I recognized that. Many friends and RAs and teachers came into the Assembly Hall with some encouraging words to me. I noticed, this presentation was not only for Eriko and me. This must be everyone's stage. I felt calm and I had confidence. Bridget shook hands with me, Christopher hugged me, my friends encouraged me a LOT and my partner Takara, Kanoko, Hitomi, and my partner Eriko calmed down each other and we made sure we could do it!!!! On the stage, I could see everyone who is my friend, RA, and my teacher. Their eyes are really lovely, and these are full of warmth. I am not alone, everyone helps me and kept an eye on me. While I was speaking, I really enjoyed myself. I remember my brain thought about the practice of presentation, the horrible long long essays, confusing reserches, helpful office hours, everything came over my head. I thought if I did make a mistake, or if I didn't show all of myself I would regret it. I must do my best. I did it! I could tell the audience 100% of that I know. After I got out from the stage, tears were coming out unconsciously. I met someone from the audience and he said, "You did a great job" and he was gone. To me, those were really fabulous words, and I had waited for those words. That made me relax and I felt satisfactory. After the presentation, my friends ran from the room and came to us! They cried. I know they had same feeling, I know they said good job to everyone. I could say just thank you over and over. My teachers also cried and we said thank you to them. I couldn't stop crying because I couldn't express that I thought at the moment. Many many feelings and words are coming around in my heart and my eyes were looking at my teachers and my friends. I'll never forget that day when we cried together. Students know teachers are more harder than us even if we have a lot of homework, they have their own life and they care about us and they have a lot of stress. We just knew teachers also do hard working. That's why we could stand until presentation is over. We have strong peer pressure, sometime peer pressure is bad for us. However, my friends have strong peer pressure that made us get stronger. When I was writing, how many times I thought I wanted to stop writing the essay. Everytime I had be negative, I saw my friends. They were keep studying, I felt I was weak and weird. I should be like my friends and I followed them. That why I could stand it until presentation. Teachers were praising us but this presentation wasn't succeed if there were no help with teachers, RAs, friends, and our families. After presentation, I came to Christopher. He hugged me and I felt "Ah, this is love." I felt love between teachers and students, friends and friends. Through the presentation, I learned not only about English, but also the most important thing for a person in society and that was my goal that I made in the beginning of this semester. I really want to say thank you as loud as I can.