2 a. Write about a place that you would like to share with others, and describe how it became significant to you.
Music is always an important part of my life. Its magical power can change my emotion and behavior. This power keeps absorbing me and makes me fall in love with the music and those instruments which produce beautiful sounds.
There were a few small shops in my neighborhood including grocery, restaurant, and barbershop and so on. After dinner, I often walked along these shops and sometimes bought some fruits. One thing always attracted me was the music from one of the shops. It was from piano. Among these shops, one was very different as it was about music. This was not the place selling instruments, but teaching how to play musical instruments. I enjoyed the performance standing out of the shop, observing what was inside. I could see a player sitting in front of a black piano used his fingers touching the keys elegantly. With the colorful lights inside and the melody of reverie, I was led to an illusionary world. I began to dream that the person sitting in front of the piano was me, with a high level of skill.
The impact of music was so incredible that I decided to learn the piano at that shop. Though I knew piano was hard to master and I did not have enough time, I entered that attractive shop to fulfill my pledge, that is to pursue the music I love. It was so exciting when I pressed the key on the piano at the first time. I was overjoyed when I achieved to perform the first song by myself. I had the lessons twice a week but I went for practice every day, and even twice a day. Reading those notes, listening to what I played filled my life with pleasure and content. I was trying my best to play and let the people passed feel the beauty of music, just like what I felt before. In this shop, it seemed that I found my passion and motive to love the world I lived in much more.
Finally my family decided to move. I could not bear the fact that I was going to leave this place and hardly came back. I went for the last-time practice, willing to eliminate the sadness by playing music as usual. However, the door was locked because that day was a rest. Looking through the glass, I could see the piano standing there quietly. There was the place gave me happiness and dreams. Now I had to bid farewell to it and its response was a heavy lock on the door, but I was not depressed, and will never be because what I pursued was already in my heart.
This small instruments learning centre taught me the most beautiful moving thing in the world, music, and also taught me a way of life, which is the way I am practicing —— music keeps my company, no matter what is going on.
