【开学寄语】Ryan:不惧风雨,拥抱未来

开学典礼

千里之行,始于足下,我们每天做出的大大小小的决定,都在带领我们走向前方的道路,引领我们成功。

学术校长:Ryan Griffin

  Here we are at the exciting start of our Fall 2020 school year. This morning, we gathered outside for our flag ceremony to come together as a school community. To our surprise, the sky opened up and began to dump rain upon our heads.

  We ran back inside, but many of us became very wet. In addition, the rain came down right before we began to have our welcome speech. This was unexpected, and it was certainly not the way that we hoped that our first flag ceremony and welcome speech for the new semester would go.

  Of course, the most natural reaction to this event is to feel frustrated and to complain. In fact, it is yet another situation in the year 2020 which makes us feel this way. Many things have not gone as planned this year for people in every country all over the world.

  In fact, Joy International School is a special place because of our values and our ability to respond to situations like this. Whenever something does not go as planned, each of us have a choice to make.

  At any time, we have the ability to focus our minds on negative aspects. It is easy to do this. However, we also have the ability to choose to focus our minds on positive aspects. Our ability to choose to focus on the positive aspects can have a great impact on the progress we make in our lives.

  For example, we can become discouraged in our studies if have some setback. We can reaction in a way that is not productive or helpful. However, each of us can choose to use our minds to see each setback as an opportunity for learning and growth.

  Some of the most impressive moments of growth in our lives come from setbacks that have been taken advantage of as opportunities. With this mindset, our achievements can be very high even if we face difficulty early in the process.

  This is the mindset we choose to have at Joy International School, and we hope that all of our students will also adopt this way of thinking. We are preparing you children for an entire lifetime of successful life. We want you to succeed in many aspects. This is why your mindset and your attitude is so important.

  This year, let us focus upon our own mindset and try to choose to have the mindset that will help us to grow the most. We are very excited to start the new year, and we have high hopes for what we will achieve. It is important to remember that, no matter what, our achievement starts with a choice we make in our own mind for how will respond to the situations and events in our life.

  Let’s do this together, and we will have a very good school year!

  期待已久的秋季学期终于开始了。今早,我们全体师生一起举行了升旗仪式。不过天有不测风云,国旗还没有到顶,就下起了瓢泼大雨。我们赶紧往回跑,很多人都湿透了,而且我们也没有来得及向学生致欢迎辞。这和我们所预想的新学期第一次升旗仪式相去甚远。

  在这种情况下,大家的第一反应可能是会很郁闷,会抱怨。其实,今年这样的事情还有很多。在各个国家,时态的发展都令人无所适从。

  这正是体现嘉洋的独特性的地方:我们的价值观让我们面对逆境能够做出不同的抉择。我们很容易关注事情的消极方面。但是,我们是有选择自由的;我们可以选择关注积极的方面。这种选择的能力对于我们过上更好的生活至关重要。

  例如,在学习中受挫时,我们很容易抱怨以致放弃,而这对于进步非常不利。但是,学习和成长的机会就蕴藏在这些失败中。我们能获得的成长,往往都是因为从失败中吸取了教训。从这个角度看,开始的挫折,并不妨碍之后取得重大成就。

  这就是嘉洋看待问题的方式,我们也鼓励所有学生这样看待问题。我们想要做的是,帮助您的孩子一生都能够不断进步,不断成功,在人生的每一方面都应对自如。要做到这一点,孩子的看待问题的视角和态度举足轻重。

  今年,我们特别想要培养学生这样的成长型思维。我们很高兴进入了新的学年,对于学生我们也是信心满满。千里之行,始于足下,我们每天做出的大大小小的决定,都在带领我们走向前方的道路,引领我们成功。

  让我们共同努力,一起实现这个目标!

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