Describe a time when you taught something to a friend or relative Well, for me, teaching is one of the best ways to boost my self-esteem, because when I show somebody how to do something or when somebody asks me to teach something that makes me feel that I’m needed. So, that means that I hardly ever say no to somebody if they need my help. And I also try to offer my help even though people don’t approach me themselves for example, just recently I overheard my nephew complaining about how he’s afraid of swimming to my sister and he also said that he wants to swim like his friends do. I understood him because I felt the same way when I was around his age and my father taught me how to swim so I wanted to help.
Right there I had an idea which was to take him to the swimming pool and teach him how to swim. And when I told this to him, he was excited and a little bit scared at the same time. Anyway, I managed to convince him and we scheduled several sessions during the week. And the first session was very interesting. At the beginning, we just tried to be in the shallow part of the pool and then we moved a little bit further, and I held his waist while he tried to move his legs and arms to move forward in the water. After 20 minutes or something, he didn’t even want to get out of the water which I think was great because that was the first step because he was able to overcome his fear of swimming and now he actually wants to do it more.
Anyway, even after 6-7 sessions, I cannot say that he swims well because we’re still learning but now he is much more confident and can actually go in and out of the swimming pool himself. And I guess after several more sessions, he’s going to be all right.
Describe a piece of technology that was hard to use Well, technological developments in recent years have made almost everyone’s life, much easier and more comfortable. Take our smart phones for example, we are basically carrying around a computer which is capable of completing different tasks at the same time. For example, they assist us in communication and through the Internet we can order a lot of things ranging from food to clothes. Without the technology, however it would probably take us a whole day to do all of these things. But like everything else that is new people find it quite difficult to use technologies, especially at the beginning until that piece of technology becomes an integral part of your life.
At least this is what happened to me when I bought a new blender just last weekend. Well, of course, the blenders in general are not unfamiliar to me. I have seen many people using it. My sister has it, my neighbors have it and my family members had been using it until it broke. That’s why we had to buy another one, but I had never used it until I bought the new one. So last weekend I was alone at home and I wanted to have some Apple juice. Of course I could’ve bought it but I wanted to prepare one myself. However, as soon as I started using the blender, I realized that I was mistaken and the reason why it was challenging for me to use the blender was that I had so many buttons that I didn’t know which one to press and I started it you know, pressing them randomly until I found the right button and this took me a whole hour because I was trying to be careful, so as not to break it down. So yeah, after several tries, I managed to make apple juice