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E-examiner S-student 
E: Now I am going to ask you some questions about yourself. Let’s start with what you do. Do you work or are you a student?
S: So, I am, I’m still a final year student studying English major at
a university in Hong Kong. I would say that I work, I do not work
officially, but I have been self-employed as an English tutor and
I make some money by tutoring some students on
a re, regular basis without a contract, so I’m not sure that counts as, like,
a formal employment or not. But I would say that most of the time,
or essentially, I’m a student and I don’t work.
E: Why did you choose to study this subject?
S: The reason why I study English is because I, I am very fascinated
by the poet named Sylvia Plath. She’s my favorite poet. I, I
read her poems back in my secondary school, back in my high school, to be more specific. And I was really attracted to the power of words and how
it could unfold that primitive side of experience through,
through something that we use on a regular basis, w, which is
language. So, yeah, so I wanna investigate literature, and more specifically,
human nature in our, in a language that I love. So, I studied En… So, I pursued
English.
E: So, do you prefer studying in the morning or in the afternoon?
S: I prefer studying in the afternoon to be honest because, s, if I wake up…
u, like, usually I wake up in the morning, it’s because I have to work,
and I, I am someone who’s a bit nocturnal. I love staying up late,
so I don’t, so I, so I sleep late as well. I, I always sleep in {laughing}. So,
I don’t really, I don’t think that my brain can concentrate during the morning.
My brain is getting more used to the, you know, like, the afternoon schedule
of working. So, I think my… I think my head works better
when it’s in a, during the afternoon. So, I will use it as my preferred
time slot for study.
E: Now, let’s talk about change. Do you like changes?
S: I quite love changes to be honest, because as human beings,
we are md, we are always mutable. As we are living in this
ex, as we are living in this world, I think one thing we need to learn is to embrace
changes and to appreciate the good side of it.
If, if we don’t, w, we cannot appreciate the beauty of changes, we cannot
master the skills of… for example, resilience because, because
there’s, because t, there’s no such s… because there’s a lot of things in life
that we can predict and when there’s change we have to, like, make
ourself getting used to it and make ourself love it, because, because,
so that we can see difference possibilities laying ahead of us.
E: Thank you. Have you changed a lot since your childhood?
S: Yeah, I’ve changed a lot since my childhood. I th, think, I think
that as a child, we would always think that our parents are perfect. But
one thing that has changed me a lot it’s that we cannot
continue living with this mentality of, of always thinking that the other
person is perfect. I’ve… By the end of, like, by the end of my
20-year-old, I realize that my parents are also human beings, and there are
somethings that they cannot pre, provide for me, and so what I would
do instead is to create the things that they can’t provide for me, because I am
a grown adult. So, I think that the biggest change I have experienced
since my childhood is to realize that there are, the world is not perfect. The world,
it’s much more… it’s much mistier and much more ambiguous
than it, and then it really is that it has been portrayed in a fairytale or something.
E: What do you plan to change in the next year?
S: What do I plan to change in my next year? I want to change my status from
students to working. I wanna… Because I have graduated, I think that
through my four years of university study I have gathered enough skills,
enough experiences to, to really... like, I have been geared up
for the future employment. So, I want to change my status from being a
student, from scholarship to employment, from, from being
and from being study, from studying in an academic institute to working
and really being productive moneywise or business-wise in a, in a society.
E: Now, let’s talk about weekends. What do you usually do on the weekends?
S: I sleep in on the weekend, and, and when I wak, and when I wake up,
it’s usually, like, five or six in the afternoon. And then I watch Netflix,
I watch a lot of TV series. And then I will buy some… and then I will shop
some groceries and then make some, cook some nice food with my friends
in the dormitories, because I’m, because I’m living in a university
dorm now. So yeah, so basically it’s just chill, Netflix, and then cooking.
E: Did you do anything special last weekend?
S: Well {laughing}… I didn’t do anything special last weekend
because last weekend there’s a very serious pandemic situation going on.
And unfortunately one o, of, one of the students living in my dorm,
he or she has been, has tested positive for the virus, so we gotta
stay in, and then we gotta collect our sample for the
COVID antigen test. So, we didn’t… so, we can’t really hang out. So,
we couldn’t really hang out. So, last weekend there wasn’t anything
to do except, except staying in our rooms, and then
cooking, eating, surviving.
E: What will you do next weekend?
S: Next weekend? Next weekend is my birthday. Once, every my birthday, I’m gonna buy a large Christmas... Sorry, not Christmas...
I’m gonna buy a large, very delicious birthday cake with
some candles, and I’m, and I’m really looking forward to my friends’ birthday messages. I’m going to… And I’m going to
plan for my, for my, for my 23rd, it should be my 23rd year
living on, here on Earth.
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