About me

Hello everyone,

My name is My Linh Lac, I am from Vietnam and currently I am studying overseas in Tasmania, Australia. It has been one year and 7 months since I first stepped on this stranger land. I am 16 years old and I attended Riverside High School in March, 2009. That was when I was in year 9 and now I am in the final year of high school year 10.  It wil not be long before I will start College next year....Launceston College.

Studying abroad is the privilege to some people in my country(Vietnam) especially when you go studying abroad in Western countries. For a while I thought that studying abroad is really a privilege to me but when I found out not long after when  I first came to Australia that I was sponsored by my auntie and uncle to study in Aus because my auntie and uncle want me to have a better education so that when I grow up I could help my poor family back in Vietnam....I am an international student studying overseas not by scholarship but by full fee paying which my auntie and uncle have paid and taken care of everything for me. Sometime, I am striked by my own consience and feel that I have owned my aunt and uncle too much and I have this  obligated feeling that in return I have to study hard to repay that debt.
But another problem I find myself stuck with is that I am not always hard-working and self disciplined as I want myself to be. I really want to achieve a great result for my academic achievement but I just could not. I am hopeless and helpless, I am not strong enough to study extremely hard. English is my second language and so having the difficulty with language barrier is inevitable. But once again another weakeness of mine is taking over all the good points I could see in myself that I could not write as well as my other mates at shcool. Everytime we have an assignment or essay, I am always dread and feel  nervous to even put my pen down to write a satisfying sentence. I don't believe in myself. I am scared that I won't have a good mark with just writing in my own words. I have the feeling that my writing is always written in a simple structure and my vocabulary is not big enough. There is so many aspects I need to improve on and once again I am overwhelmed and stop to write which is much worse than it has already been. In class, I have a friend I have just made at the beginning of this year. She is from India and of course I am faced with another diversity that is whenever I see her writing and compare it to mine , I am left thinking that I could never write that good like hers. She is so good at writing and in her writing she uses lots of complex structures and the words that are unfamiliar to me. I guess that's how she's got good grades. So I asked her tips on how she could write so well and she told me that she has always loved reading and she thinks reading a lot will help tremendously on writing and also back in India she has practised  writing many essays and types of writings in english. is it really true that reading a lot would really help with writing? and how to read to best learn the way others write? because again english is not my mother tongue so very often I find myself read over and over again an instruction but still not quite able to understand and remember what it says, it happens to me all the time.....I really want to improve my English skills writing as well as speaking because to be successful in studying I need to first master these skills first. I feel overwhelmed again because I am so behind compared with other students in my class especially those who are able to spin out a very good piece of writing with not as much effort and nervousness like I have .

I want to write well and professionally. I want to be good at writing but I don't know, I want gain good mark in my essays and assignments