Complete Speech by Matthew:
Good afternoon, fellow graduates, teachers, friends, and guests.
I have a thousand emotions crowd in mind, so I do not think I can express my feelings of being a graduate very well.
It is a great honour for me to be here today. I know it is such a cliché, you are thinking every graduation speaker here says that it was a great honour, but in my case, it is really so deeply true.
I will tell you why. 3 years ago, when I came here first, I barely spoke English. Every class and social life of here was all made by English, thus if I wanted to survive, I had to learn more English. It was really tough to understand Mr.Caldwell's beautiful British accent as well as Mrs. Bruhlmann's beautiful American accent. And assignments, I got 25 marks from my first assay in IMI, it was from Mr. Frapin. And group works; I could not say anything during the group meeting in my first year of IMI, because I could not understand what they were saying. So I was just sitting down on the chair, and try to pretend to understand everything. I hope they might not notice my acting. But day by day, year by year, I was improved, and I had more passion to study. Therefore I have been through all difficulties; finally I am here to speak about my graduation, and our graduation. So, like I said, it is really a great honour.
I am not going to say really long for this speech. Frankly, I am not sure what I have to say even now. I have been thinking that what I should say for the graduation speech, what I have done and what I have still remembered. There were so many memories and experience of being at IMI. There were sports day which we have competed each other with fair play or not, international night which we have shared our culture, project week, every class, group works and so on. And sustainability, our theme of this semester, was also quite special for me. It is not just only about our tourism final paper; also it is nowadays current trend. We might have heard about sustainability in our life, every day and every time. But almost no one could feel that it was really important. It is now become our industry's trend where we have to be, thus without being noticed this concept, I am sure we are going to be failed. IMI was trying to teach this fact by semester theme. Through this, we all have realised importance of sustainability.
Well, I am feeling like this speech is just going to be quite boring. Then I will start what I really wanted to say.
Today, we finally got time for stepping forward. It is just beginning of our life. And I am really sure; we can be the best in everywhere. We can be more like Bill gates, Elbert Einstein, or J.W Marriott. They are all same as us. They put trousers on same way, had a girlfriend, say goodbye to them, struggling with group working, and assignments, just like we did right?
For this graduation, Firstly, I would like to thank especially our teachers. Mr. Caldwell, Mr. Frapin, Mr. Benetatos, Dr.V, Mrs. Bruhlmann, Mr. Ritzel, Mr. Currie, Chef. Leonard, Frau Huttmann, Bammert , and... my dean Mrs. Ross...and other teachers who I did not mention. They have helped a lot for our academic life, and they have indicated right way for being grown up. Without them, we cannot be here to have graduation.
Secondly, I would like to also many thanks to my BA graduates. Well, I want to speak all you guys name, but if I do that, this speech will never finish. So I will not mention everyone's name. But we all already know, we thank each other, and rely on each other. Without you guys, I could not finish my study and I could not do everything. You, Singaporeans, Chinese, Malaysians, Rumanian, Mexican, Koreans, Lebanese, Canadian, and Dutch, all BA, you are the best.
And lastly, probably, I will never have a chance to say this. My parents who are sitting over there, it is really hard to say that I love you as a Korean man. But today is special day, and they were supporting me unconditionally, and making scarifies. So I have to say that I love you mom and dad, and my little sister.
I have to finish my speech with my IMI life. I do not think it is end of our relationship. As long as people want to travel, we are going to be there. Promise me one thing. Later, if we meet again, we have to have a drink, and talk about our IMI life with big smile and laugh. Once, you were in IMI, and then you are my friends and brothers and sisters. Now time to move on another reality. See you later. Thank you.
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