暴風雨にしなうヤナギは、 それにあらがうオークよりも、 しばしばうまく被害を免れる。それゆえ大きな難局においては、楽天的でまじめすぎない人は、より偉大な人よりも、順応性と心の平静を取り戻すのが早い場合もある。

The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.
Sir Walter Scott
Scottish poet, novelist and biographer
1771-1832

May 28, 2013
Dear Students and Friends
You should watch JK Rowling's commencement address at Harvard University in 2008.
It would take about 21 minutes.
Three points I want you  to listen:
1.) What was her back ground before entering a university and what did she agree with her parents and what did she really study or did in the university life?
2)  Tell us her experience while she was working in the Amnesty International in London and what did she learn from her work in the Amnesty?
3.) What did she want to tell the graduates of Harvard University to do?
4.) What was her message to us in the last few lines of her speech?  It was her concluding message to us, what was her message?
Write the answers of the questions above.
gto