Topic #1: Gauche
Have you ever felt gauche? Describe the situation.
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Have you ever felt gauche? Describe the situation.
Nobody may be good at doing something from the first time. Everyone finally adapts on every field by repeated practicing whatever they want. I have ever felt gauche several times in my life. I am frankly unfamiliar with both cooking and baking. Even though I am a novice of cooking, I love cooking of many different kinds of foods. It was one of my friends’ birthday in 2005. I would like to make a cake by myself for her. First of all, I got a recipe for making it, and some pictures of decorated cakes with fresh cream. When I read the recipe, I thought it looked like very simple. However, I was getting tired from it as I even failed of baking bread which was the basic stage of making the cake. Even though I succeeded in baking the bread in 2 days, I was so frustrated in the huge work because the decoration of the cake with fresh cream was also needed good skill. Furthermore, I didn’t have specific materials for baking at that time. As a result, I couldn’t be in success of giving a cake to her as her present, and I tried to make another one, a carrot cake, which was a kind of just breads that I was familiar with for 2 days. This is the one of my experiences that I have felt gauche because I have been awkward at baking. I still like to make a delicious cake soon because I believe if I put effort to doing something I will be necessarily good at the work someday.
I believe that all of human being have make a mistakes in their life even it is small,In my case I felt depressed when I did a big gauche behavior to my fraternal friend .Actually when I was 17 years old I conflicted with my friend and I decided to did not keeping touch with him.nevertheless he a pologized to me several times but I never gave him a chance for that because I thought he did a big flaw.
after a year he passed away because he was sick and I rememberd how was my reaction when I heared that I cried all daies and I felt Im really bad person.this harsh leson teach me how the human have to be mercey with people and how do not forget the positive side in the human and remember the negitive side, for example with my situation when this accident happened I was not remember how I live with my best friend in 11 years with happieness and amicable life but I a bandoned him when just did one mistake to me .I will neve forgive myself about this big fault.
Everyone in this life have done some mistakes which ended up whith making him feels gauche. In fact, a lot of are trying to be perfect and venerable. I think it is very hard to avoid being in a situation that makes people feel gouche.
Actually I’ve felt gauche many times, but I’ll mention a situation which emberessed me and I think I was really gauche at this moment. The first situation happened a week before I came to the U.S. it was praying time and I was late. I went as fast as I can to the mosque. But unfortunatly, I forgot to switch-off my cellphone. While I was praying, one of my my friends called me and my cellphone was ringing so loudly. It wasn’t just ringing normally, I was really unlucky in that day because I changed the original ring tone to a rap song for 2pac. The song encloded a lot of bad words thad every body can understand it better than the god wards. I think if there was a candid camera I’ll keep the tape for may whole lifebecause people were shocked, some of them were asking God to forgive them, while I was trying to reach the cellphone whith my hand to switch it off.
I can’t remember how many people talked to me when I was going home, they were asking me not to do it again. Usually, I am a stoic person in similar situations, but this one was definitely exeptional one.
I felt gauche in Washington D. C. in 1994. I was in this city for one month because I worked in a project for my country. However, I couldn't speak English and had a lot of problems. For this cause, I had a traslator whit me all the time, and she was an excellent person. She helped me with my job, and we usually ate together at noon. However, she couldn't work one day because was sick. As a result, I couldn't do my meetings, and I felt an useless person. Similarly, I had a big problem when I was hungry because we ate at the office, but that day I had to go at the restaurant, and I was alone. Then, I sat in the restaurant and ordered to the waitress a glass of water, but my English was very bad, and the waitress brought me butter. When I saw the butter, I felt a gauche man because I couldn't order a glass of water, and I promised myself that I will learn English in the future.
Actually, I am not good speaker. I felt gauche everytime whenever I told something to others.
One of my hope is to be sophisticated at speaking. It is important thing to live in social society. Through one's speaking, it could show person's social status and how well cultivated he is. There are some tips that I think to speak well. First is confidence, second is speed, last is think twice. In spite of knowing that, it is difficult to substitute my common life. At each gap, I try to read an article to think logically. I am still poor speaker. However, there is a simple but serious saying. 'Sweet after bitter'
We've got some interesting examples of gauche here. Make sure you notice that the definition of gauche includes a social aspect. So, it's not only being awkward, or having trouble doing something, it is having this trouble in a social situation that likely causes (or should cause) some embarassment.
Ex. 1: (p. 25) The gauche bride complained about her gifts at the wedding. This is shows that the bride does not know it is impolite to complain about gifts you are given.
Ex. 2: (p. 28) Her date was so gauche that he talked to other women on his cell phone during dinner. Again, the date makes a social mistake.
I have a niece who is 2 years old. I had an experience that I took care of her without my sister. My sister advised to me about looking after. I didn't foresee any problems but my niece began to cry after my sister left my place. I didn't know why she cried. Anyway, I tried to soothe her but she didn’t stop crying. I guessed that she was hungry, so I provided her with milk that was set by my sister. She was half laughing, half crying, but she was ready to cry before I was relieved. At that moment, I felt gauche because that was the most I could do. An hour passed, my sister came back my place. Surprisingly, as my niece saw her, she did nothing else than cry. When I felt gauche, my sister told me smiling, “Every mother is great”
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