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First ULBS for English

First ULBS for English

So ULBS. Honestly don't know what that acronym is supposed to work, so... yeah. It's kind of like an oral test made by the government to test the student's ability to speak. As if we don't have mouths. Lovely.

My first ULBS was to talk about a book and how the book impacted me and my life. Generally a book reader, this isn't hard task to accomplish. Instantly I picked up the book titled "What Would Google Do" or WWGD. It's a book talking about Google the globalwide company we know today and reverse engineering the ways it took to achieve such a position.

The book doesn't contain any plot, which was kinda disappointing. I really wished I could read a story about Google and his adventures on Earth. Anyway, the book talks about ways to achieve certain thing - accepting and giving constructive criticism, work in a group, etc. It was really interesting that we could learn this despite not knowing about the cooperation. Maybe it was an inside job, who knows ?

Being a person that doesn't like to talk in front of 25 humans, I instantly became anxious when my name was picked. Still, I kept my cool, acted confident and talk with the flow of a river during winter. It might be frozen, but it's still going. It was really fun to introduce books to classmates, I wonder if we could do this casually without including marks into the subject.

Anyway, that's my experience of ULBS. Still don't know what it stands for though.

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