Congratulations and thank you for your submissions. Your submissions will be included in the next World Voice book that will be released in about six month. I will edit your submissions in tomorrow. You have an excellent command of the english language. May I ask what is it you do for work? We are happy to have you share with us! Please share the World Voice with others. I look forward to any and all your future submissions. We will be in contact soon when your work is published in World Voice. Take care and be well.

Joseph

Santiago, Inc.
Joseph A Santiago President

I received this email several days ago, and it really light up my day! Get my works being published in an internationally available book? It sounds great, isn’t it? I found this project at mytino, and I send my submissions tentatively. But I never expected to receive their reply so soon.

“You have an excellent command of the English language”. Years of hard work and study were summed up in those brief words. They made me want---just a little---to cry. All those pangs of rejections and frustrations have flowed into my mind, and time seemed stood still for this moment. A person like me should never study English. I am so helpless shy! How could I master another language when I am such a failure in communication? Every time it comes across to speak English, I become tongue-tied with embarrassments and shyness. My writing perhaps is not bad, but what’s the use of it? As long as I could forward an email with FYI, or piece together a notice with Chinese English, I could fulfill my job. To face the truth, no matter how hard I try, it’s impossible for me to improve my writing skills to a native writer’s level. So why bother to try? But still, I create my English Blog, and dive into any projects involves English to hone my skills. Writing is rooted in my vein, and it’s my way to express myself. I can’t give it up.

My job requires for no special skills, and I know I would be replaced at any time by someone younger. With my future hanging, the only thing I know is to work hard and try hard. These years those who's keeping their nose to the grindstone can't make bundles. But I don’t know what else I can do to brighten my future. Perhaps I would spend many years’ working and studying without going nearly enough to touch the reign of the success. But as long as I am still driven by the strong desire to put my thoughts into words, I would not give up. Because I am already rewarded in this wonderful journey.