Fiction: Group 3
The Memoir of My Success
Immaculate Heart of Mary College, Fan, Lok Sum - 12, Fiction: Group 3
ongratulations, Angel! Good job!’
This was the compliment that the experts paid me. They all congratulated me since I
had invented some wonderful and meaningful products and machines to make Foshan
people’s life more comfortable and convenient.
Today is a great day to me and I am so glad to become a successful inventor!!!!
Actually, as an impatient person like me, I never thought that I could be a successful as well as an out-
standing inventor when I was young. It is because to achieve a perfect project, I had to work around the
clock so as to carry out a lot of experiments and exercises. It was never easy, and it was a big challenge to
an impatient person like me. It took a long time during the whole process. For so many times, I wanted
to give up when I failed but I tried to keep going until I could get the result.
On the 21
st
October of 2000, my twelfth birthday, I moved to Hong Kong with my family for
studying. At that time, Hong Kong people hated the mainlanders, and they even called them “Locusts”. I
was really very furious about that. Therefore, I decided to do my best and to work hard so Hongkongers
will not look down upon me.
However, my English was very weak and I couldn’t catch up the curriculum. Most of my classmates
were not willing to help me and I felt really dismay and helpless. I had just looked like a lonely goat
standing on an expanse and wilderness land and waiting the other partners to save me. My examination
result was pretty poor actually.
Luckily, Miss Fan saved me in the dark canyon. She taught me Integrated Science and English. She
helped me to improve my learnings, especially English with some extra vocabulary lists and exercises. She
also encouraged me to read more English storybooks and set a reading limit to me too. Gradually, my
English level and other subjects had improved under her guidance. Besides, she made the Integrated
Science lessons more interesting with her flexible and intriguing teaching skills and I love this subject
very much unwittingly because I was very contented and delighted when I finished an invention.
Once upon a time in my form five Integrated Science lesson, Miss Fan asked my classmates and me to
invent something that could make people’s daily life more convenient. At that moment, I felt really
nervous and scared as I didn’t have any idea about that.
”Oh! I need to hand in the works after a week! But I have no idea to this,” I thought very anxiously.
Abruptly, she said again,” This work will be counted into your exam results too,” I felt more worried
than before meanwhile.
I had thought for a long time, even having lunch, but I still had no ideas.
Unexpectedly, I had a scheme until I saw my classmate, Lawrence who was a fat boy. He was on the
class duty this week for sweeping the floor with a broom after school. He was sweating and he looked so
tired too. When I saw his condition, I decided to invent a tool to mitigate his fatigue.
On my way home, I thought constantly,” What can I do? Let me try with some simple things:
Towels.”
When I came back home, I took some old towels to do this experiment immediately. First, I put two
towels under a pair of slippers and used a shoelace to tie them up. Then I started to test it but this method
didn’t work since the towels broke easily. However, I kept trying instead of giving up because I
remembered that Miss Fan had said these discourse:
She said,” Everyone must have met a lot of frustration and failure even the great inventor like Thomas
Edison. But he had never surrendered to them. He still kept on trying and his perseverance made him
very successful at last. Therefore, we should learn from him and keep trying when you were in troubles.”
I tried again with this attitude after a while. I changed another method when I saw the back of a
duster. First I cut it into two parts and made a hole at the end of it. Then I passed through a rope which
had a buckle into the hole of the duster. When I tested it, I put the foot into the hole of the duster and
started racing. It worked and it was really comfortable like skating on the ice. I thought that it could solve
the problem truly at that time. I thought that it could help Lawrence to keep fit and support the
environmental protection because I was reusing some waste.
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