Looking back upon my life in high school, I always remembered the experience of taking part in extracurricular activities and the most impressing one was named “Folk Music into Campus” .

At that time, I organized a group of four students, and was nominated as the leader of this group, which made me feel exciting and the responsibility was heavier.

Then we began our works. Some of us were responsible for searching different kind of music such as palace music, literator music and sacred music and I was responsible for the folk music. It was really an arduous duty and I began my work.

First we carried out the test investigation and study in campus. With the dual influence of western music and pop music, folk music as one of the main forms of the traditional culture has slowly separated from the mainstream of the music. Although we knew our voice was low and our power was limited, we just wanted to say something for folk music and reminded people that where did the music originate from. Because of the lack of experience of investigation and propagandize skills, we hardly advanced at the very beginning. Every time we gave students the paper of questionnaire, they threw it away without giving a glance. Even if some of them read the paper, they would say, Folk music? Are you kidding?　It’s the time of the “Idol music”, who will listen to this kind of music, why not go to ask my grandma? According to that, we changed our way to work. Under the music teacher’s help, we organized a group of students, who know folk music quite well, to hold a small party about folk music in on Saturday evening; gave every student who was at the party a test paper; and so on and holding the folk music knowledge compete. To our surprised, our investigation advanced smoothly and we tasted the success first time.

Next, we should do investigations outside school. I went to a park with my partners on a sunny weekend as usual, taking tapes, radio and a pair of self made sound boxes. We chose a corner in the park as our position. With the beautiful folk music’s notes flew away, there was so much expectation. However, after along time, nobody took care of our questionnaires. Suddenly, it began to rain and the passers-by were fewer and fewer. But I didn’t know why all of us didn’t want to leave even if we were wet. And I thought it might be because the music was so beautiful. After a while, there appeared the miracle. The corner became crowded. People came to ask us and did our questionnaires, taking umbrellas. Meanwhile, those colorful umbrellas made up a pretty ceiling. Thanks to that miracle, we not only completed our investigation task, but also were intoxicated with our exciting answers.

If success is a gate, the road to this gate must be made up of difficulties.

After one-year’s gestating, we tasted the sweet fruit. The topic of “Folk Music into Campus” was accepted by our school and then, holding a large-scale of popularizing and propagandizing activity.

I was so proud of this result and the cherish I harvested is the whole course of doing the thing. The connotation of the Folk music impressed me deeply and my heart has been sublimed. I became more confident and responsible. Even now, I also think that what I reaped at that time was more than I had thought.

點評：

本文是一篇小Essay，主題是通過自己的一段經歷，一方面反映了自己的興趣愛好，另一方面，也從側面展示了自己的性格方面的特點以及能力。

文章的作者作為一個小團隊的領導者，負責了整個宣傳活動，其間遇到了不少的困難，包括宣傳手段的選擇、組織活動的方式、活動的人員安排等等。在一一克服了這些困難之后，最終取得了良好的宣傳效果。在這個過程中，體現了作者的組織能力，以及處理問題的能力，由于小Essay的篇幅都要求不能太長，所以要以最簡單的語言最大限度的表達好所想要傳達的信息。

整篇文章中，情景結合，兩者很好得結合在了一起，尤其是結尾的一段總結性的內心獨白，起了畫龍點睛的作用，總的來說，是篇比較精彩的一段經歷描寫。

譯文：

民族音樂

回顧我的高中生活，參加興趣小組活動的經歷讓我印象深刻，其中高二伊始的一次名為《民族音樂走進校園》課題的活動經歷，讓我尤為記憶深刻。那是一次四人組成的課題小組，我被推薦為小組組長，這讓我既高興又覺得身上的責任更重了。

確定了課題后，由我相應做了分工，她們負責搜集宮廷、文人和宗教音樂，民族音樂歸我。民族音樂是大頭，為了制作一個有關民族音樂的問卷調查，我開始了艱辛之路。

首先著手在校園的問卷調查。作為傳統文化主要形式的民族音樂，在西方音樂和流行音樂的雙重影響下，已逐漸淡出了主流文化。我們知道我們的聲音很小，我們的力量有限，但就是想為民族音樂吶喊幾聲，提醒一下人們，我們的根來自何方。由于缺乏調查的經驗和技巧，開始一段時間，我們進展得并不順利，當我們每每向同學們遞出一張問卷的時候，他們看也不看就扔掉；有的即使看了一下，卻說，民樂？誰要聽？要不問問我奶奶去。對此，我們改變了策略，在校音樂老師的幫助下，組織了一群有一定民樂素養的同學在周六晚上開了一個民樂小party，向參加的同學們發了一份問卷，還開展了民樂知識競答。于是，我們的調查進行得意想不到的順利，初次嘗到了勝利的滋味。

下一步是校外調查。我選了一個晴朗的周末，像往常一樣和同學一起帶著唱機、磁帶和自制的一對音箱等，選取了一個公園的一角作為陣地，隨著美妙音符的飄出，我們的心中也充滿著期待，可是大半天過去了，仍無人問津。這時又下起了大雨，路上的行人漸漸少了，真是屋漏偏逢連夜雨，但不知為什么，雖然我們全身都淋濕了，一個也沒想走，也許是音樂太美了。不知什么時候開始，人漸漸多了起來，大家撐著雨傘圍著我們問這問那，一會兒功夫花花綠綠的雨傘組成了一個繽紛的天空，我們的問卷不但完成了，還為自己精彩的解答而流連忘返。

如果說成功是一扇門，那么通向這扇門的路就是用困難鋪成的。

一年的孕育，終于結出了甜美的果子，在做完一系列課題研究后我們提出的一個關于“民族音樂走進校園”的主題被學校采納，并在校慶后舉行了為期一周的民樂推廣活動。

我非常滿意這樣的結果，但我更珍惜的是課題研究的過程.在這過程中，不光作品本身豐富的內涵陶冶了我，讓我的心靈得到了洗禮和升華，同時也讓我也增加了升自信心和一份對社會的責任感，這些都是我開始所沒想到的。