What I like in the USA, top 10 list - part II

FIVE: Loving pets

I had observed that most of the people I had met have a pet or pets at home. I often  see people jogging or walking their dogs. You cannot really see any stray dog or cats like we sometimes see in Taiwan. They will take their dogs for walk  on a daily basis, keep pets  in indoor, get dogs nice dog house outdoor, feed their pets well, take them to the doctor when sick. Besides, I like the fact that they clean their pets excrement when walking them. Most importantly, they treat their pets like family. They will love and take good care of their pets.


FOUR: Obeying the traffic rules

I can't forget how dangerous and tense every time when my roommate and I try to walk across the street to get some food from the McDonald's right by the campus or when we try to get to the restaurant in the walking distance from our place. Although we complain about no sidewalk or zebra crossing for passengers or how fast people driving there, if I think it over, I have to appreciate people in there following the traffic rules, or my roommate and I would probably...(you imagine by yourself). Drivers will let the passengers go first and not really run through the red/yellow light. Besides, American drivers are very "polite" to the school bus. I took bus to school most of the time, and the bus driver would stop the bus only when there is a bus stop sign. I am appreciated some of the nice bus driver will drop my roommate and I closer to our place even though there is not stop sign.


THREE: Diversity

Walking in the campus, it is quite obvious to see the diversity of Americans. In class, my classmates were white, African, or middle Americans, and occasionally I could meet people from Europe. Can you imagine that you were actually able to talking and meeting people from different countries or background without flying to somewhere? It is always interesting to meet diverse people and know some culture from them. I feel like my perceptions and point of views about this world had been widen rapidly and grown rich. While I was very cautious to respect various cultures from friends of diversity, I had tried to share my knowledge of my county and its culture. I am one of few Asian around in school and sometimes I would feel people saw me differently and treat me a bit differently. However, as my supervisor once told me, they may be intimidate to interact with you for the lack of experience or knowledge of you and your culture. As a result, I usually show them my smile in the hope to ease their intimidating as well as mine. I was lucky being in a multi-cultural community with diverse Americans


TWO: Chinese class and students

Interesting enough. I was first worried very much about my Chinese class under the pressure of my students who were school staff, faculty, and instructors. However, I ended up loving my Chinese class and my students. I spent LOTS OF time preparing my first lesson before start, and my roommate wondered many times why I was so anxious and worried about my first Chinese classes. Perhaps I am a perfectionist and wanted my students to have interest in Mandarin and motivation on learning it. Plus, it was the first year for my school to have Chinese course, and certainly I was on a task to do it great so that they will keep Mandarin course for next academic year. I had enjoyed teaching Chinese to my students for 3 reasons. Firstly, I have freedom to design my own schedule and class, so I can decide what to teach or focus. (That actually gave me freedom AND pressure.) I like to add some cultural After all, part of my Fulbright mission
Secondly, my students were motivated. I am not sure if it was because of my teaching methods and lively and serious style or they were really interested in learning. Sometimes, they made some humor or laughter during class.

Last but not least, my students were supportive and cooperative, especially Anzhu, Madan, Xiongming, and Keting. Whenever I saw their performance in class or heard them using some Chinese outside of the classroom, it is always an encouragement for me. Seeing their growth in their Chinese ability, I feel I have to keep working hard in the hope to benefit their growth in Mandarin the most. I was so lucky to have my students in the class.


ONE: Friends

At first, I notice it was a bit hard to make friends here due to my skin color and personality. I tend to be a quite person in front of people if I don't know them. Most of the time when I was around my roommate, people tend to talk to her. I was fine with it though since she is talkative and easy going person. Plus, her English is much better than mine. Even though, I try to make friends with my smile and it works. There were a few times that people said they like my smile and give me a name like princess or angel. (Well, "princess" only for a time, but I am not kidding here!)

I was extremely lucky to be able to meet some nice and caring people and even make friends with them. Besides my roommate (I think we have become a lifelong friend), I had made three friends. I called them secretly "The Three Musketeers" because they three are work related and all take good care of my roommate and I. (Later, I give them different name though. They are liar, gangster, bad guy respectively and me as a thief.) The first couple of months since I was back, I terribly miss them and come to the realization that they may be the only and important reason to go back.

Knowing not all of my friends I met in the States are able to see my post here, I still want to show my most appreciation here. It's never easy for me if I didn't meet you. I have a wonderful year in NC, USA is because of you, my dearest friends.

What I like in the USA, top 10 list - part I

It is going to be one year after I was back to Taiwan. I miss my life in the States often and often wish I could done some things whenever the memory flashes back to me. Therefore, I am planning to write something following up my life in the States for two purposes. First purpose is to keep the record and the other one is to help me reflect what I could done better or what I can share with people whoever might need this kind of information.

I have thought over and over that I want to list my top 10 things that I like the most during my time in the USA. To begin with, the following list is based on my personal experience and I am sure I might miss something or not include something due to the lack of the experience, so please just simply enjoy reading it, not thinking too much. Here we begin.

TEN: Pull pork BBQ

When hearing BBQ, I thought of our style of BBQ and was mouthwatering actually, but it is not the BBQ I imaged. I was told that the BBQ from North Carolina is very different and tasty and I was lucky to try some BBQ when I was there.The first time I had pull pork BBQ is the first time my supervisor took me to meet with the school faculty (Dan, Don and Xudong) at Skylight Inn.I can not tell what is in the source, but it was really good.

    

NINE: Sports/American football

I like sports and play some sports when I was a student. I have a couple of the opportunities to watch the football games. Most of Americans are really into sports and support their team a lot. Although, I don't know very well about football rules, it was fun watching it and being able to talk about games with friends. (Side note: Going to tailgates are really cool experience seeing people's passion to their supported them and having fun before games.)

   

EIGHT: Kitchen/house facility

I was impressed the facility in the house. There are AC, heater, dish washer, oven, toaster, and so on to make life easier and convenient.  In Taiwan, we hang our clothes somewhere like balcony or outdoor space to dry clothes. However, every family here has a dryer for clothes. Sometimes I have to worry that what not to put in the dry, but in general it is so convenience to do laundry. I like the food disposer a lot. We normally store the leftover to the trash truck for pigs in Taiwan and it helps me a lot when I cook NOT well. I normally force me to finish up the food I cook, but sometimes it will still a bit leftover I cannot really finish. Besides, microwave is so helpful for people like me who don't cook well. ;)

SEVEN: Fast food restaurants

I don't like fast food but the variety of fast food restaurants here makes me want to try at least one time at different ones, like McDonald's, KFC,  Burger King, Arby's, Taco Bell,Five Guys', Bojangle's, Chick-fil-A. I like the fact of free refilling drink when eating at the fast food restaurant. It is kind of my way to ease my desire for getting different tea at tea shop when in Taiwan by refilling different drinks and taking some home here. There is a Burger King around PCC, so I went there to eat and study at least one time at week, so that may be the reason why  I hadn't eaten any burgers or fries until 3 months after I got back to Taiwan. Even though I have to say some of the burgers and fries are really much better than we have in Taiwan.

  

SIX: Holidays

I had been lucky enough to celebrate most of American holidays with friends. My favorite holidays are Halloween and Christmas. Knowing holidays is one thing; experiencing them is another. Thanks to friends, I had experienced some very authentic holiday celebration and holiday spirit. I was amazed how they prepare the food for feast. Man and women work together to prepare the food. I felt holiday spirit when having Halloween dinner with a friend's family and decorating a Christmas tree. I was a bit shocked when seeing children "open" their Christmas presents.  I was glad to be able topartly join egg hunting on Easter Day. These holidays are great opportunity to learn the culture and build the friendship. On top of that, I really had a great time and deeply realize the importance of each holiday to the American.

(Flashback) I lost my debit card

While I am helping an ETA to report the lost of his bank ATM card. It reminded me of my time to report the lost of my debit card in the States. FYI, I have ONLY one debit card.

It is so convenient to use credit/debit card in the States and most of the stores take cards. However, the risk for me to use the debit card is I sometimes would use too much money if I didn't keep the record. Unlike the ATM cards, you have to report the lost of your debit card since strangers might pick up your card to use it and it seems happened here quite normally. However, that is the experience I had never had to deal with since I don't really use credit cards in Taiwan.

I still remember clearly the night I lost my card. It was after Chinese class and Dan offered a ride to supermarket as he would usually do on the way back.  When I realized I couldn't find my card at checkout counter, I was a bit nervous since I was pretty sure that I have the ONLY card with me all the time. However, we still looked over the supermarket but failed to find it. On the way home, I pretend clam to tell Dan that I probably left the card home which I didn't think so.

(Well... sometimes I don't really trust myself fully since I am clumsy and forgettable, but this time I know I am right with the card lost no matter how hard I was trying to deny it.)

Anyway, I reported the lost of the card after I had searched everywhere in my room, jacket packets, and bags. I hesitated. I was thinking maybe my supervisor can help me with it or tell me what to do. The only problem I thought of was my phone minutes. My phone is pre-paid plan and I was afraid the call would be cut off  in the middle of the phone call.  However, it didn't occur to me that I would not be able to fully understand what the operator said. Umm.. I didn't understand because of his accent and fast talking speed.

Even though, it worked out. I did it. (Side Note: You don't even need to go to the bank to get a new card They can mail it to you. Sweet! The second frustration I have next with the operator is to report the problem of my Kindle. Not only not to understand his questions but hardly to know how to describe my kindle problem well.)

Roommate's Birthday Week 室友的生日週慶祝

托室友的福，這個星期吃了好多蛋糕，不同於台灣的蛋糕，這邊的人都自己做蛋糕的，雖然我也想要自已做，一來對自己做蛋糕沒什麼信心，二來是我得去買很多材料，再來就是時間緊迫，所以我在Food Lion買蛋糕給室友囉！

Thanks to my roommate. I had a lot of cake this week. Different from the cake in Taiwan, people here make their own cake. Although I was desperately wanting to make one for the roommate,  I bought a cake at Food Lion with the help of my supervisor. Well, firstly I don't have confidence in making cake and then I have to buy lots of ingredients which I don't have time and transportation to do shopping.)

我選了草莓口味的，希望室友有個甜蜜的一年。(再加上一些"飲料"當禮物)

I chose the flavor of the strawberry to wish my roommate a sweet year. (Also, I bought some her favorite "drink" as her birthday gift.)

接下來的幾天，學校幫九月的壽星慶生喔，再加上貼心的Megan也帶我們去橄欖球賽慶祝室友的生日，當然她也做了一個蛋糕與大家分享喔！她做了個巧克力蛋糕，非常非常好吃！真希望自己也有像她的手藝。

The next days, the school held a birthday party for September birthday girls and boys. Megan also took us to a football game to celebrate the roommate's birthday by making a  chocolate cake(Btw, it was very yummy). I wish myself to be able to make a delicious cake like hers.

Unknown sadness & My Hobbies? 莫名的難過 & 這是我的興趣嗎？

It was so nice to know that there are some friends caring about you. This morning I posted a statue on Fackbook and later a few friends left some texts on fb to cheer me up. Then I met M on campus. He was checking on me too. I felt he was very sweet at that time.

今早很高興知道有幾個朋友在關心你。我在臉書上寫"今天天氣很好，可是心情很糟，出去晒晒太陽吧！，接著有幾個朋友就留言鼓勵我， 在校園，遇到一個朋友，他也關心我是否有什麼事發生，嗯，心裡甜甜的呢！

Actually there was nothing bad happened. I was just cleaning some of the stuff in my room which I was very relunctant to do. While sorting out the gifts I am going to give, writing thank you cards, looking around the closet what to take home, oh man, I became very moody. Yes, I was moody and I could not figure out the reasons. Then, I realized it was the sadness for leaving here this morning. 

事實是沒有什麼不好的事發生，我只是在整理房間裡的一些東西，而我很不情願去整理，分類要送人的禮物，寫感謝卡，看看衣櫥裡什麼東西要帶回去，唉，我突然覺得很難過，而我在當下並不知道為什麼情緒不穩，直到今早我意識到我在難過我要離開了。

Anyway, I would like to share about today's speech class. The speech I made today did a great job to make me happy. This time we had to make a speech about hobbies that are not yours but your assigned partner's. In short, your partner's hobbies are now your hobbies. We were asked to write our own speech about hobbies as an assignment to hand in class, so we did not that the speech would be switched. Therefore, I try to be funny on my hobbies which were singing, scootering and man hunting. (If you know me, you will know I have no guts to do man hunting.) My partner is a man and I could not image his only hobby is to make people laugh. What an interesting person. In fact, when I first read his speech, I could not help laughing.

不管怎樣，我要分享一下今天的演講，我很高興我這次的演講講得不錯。這一次我們的主題是「興趣」，但是不是演講你的嗜好，而是你同學的，簡言之，你同學的嗜好現在變成你的了。(老師這次要求我們寫講稿然後上課交，我們不並知道老師會交換我們的講稿，而我試著要風趣一點，所以寫了我大學時代的興趣：唱KTV、騎機車兜風、和獵男生--認識我的人都知道我根本我沒個膽去做這個…)我的夥伴是個男生，而他唯一的「興趣」就是帶給人們歡笑，真是一個有趣的人！事實上，當我讀他的講稿時，我忍不住笑出來了。

I am not sure why but the instructor only asked my partner and me what are the hobbies we have now in front of the class. Because of that, the whole class knew our interesting hobbies and kind of looked forward to hear our speeches. I felt pressure.

我不確定為什麼老師要在課堂上說我們兩個人的興趣，但是因為這樣，全班都知道我們兩個人的興趣，而且期待我們兩人的溝講。

Here are some lines of his speech draft.

I don't play video games, and I freaking hate playing golf... Since I was little I have been perfecting this hobby of mine...When the whole class is langhing at my shenanigans is when I feel the most alive. I crave the laughter. I would die for the attention. 

這裡分享一下他寫的東西：我不打電動而且我非常厭惡打高爾夫球…當我是小孩子的時候，我就將這個興趣完美化了…當全班在笑我的笑話時，那是我覺得我還活著的時候。我渴望笑聲，也渴望得到注意。

Most importantly, I learned the "knock knock joke" because he use one in his closing. (I mean I heard it before but never really figured out what it was.) Knock knock. Who's there? Little old lady. Little old lady who? Wow, I didn't realize that you all were such good yodelers.

重要的是，因為這次演講我學到了"knock knock"的笑話。(我是指我以前聽過，但從沒真的了解那是什麼。)

敲敲門。誰在那？，是個嬌小的老太太，誰是嬌小的老太太? 哇我不知道你們是很棒的yodelers)

Meanwhile, he also did a great job to turn my hobbies into his. I did not talk about man hunting in my speech draft because I felt it might be improper to talk about it before the audience. I wish I had his revised speech draft so that I could show you because it was sooo hilarious. I kind of remember one part. " I like to sing Karaoke with men at night and have breakfast after singing. I would hop on a man's scooter and head to breakfast store and then see the sunrise...Gosh, I wish I could have the creativity he has. The whole class laughed.  I think he is a really laughter-maker, isn't he?

而他也很棒！他很成功地把我的興趣變成他的了，我並沒有在我的講稿裡說太多獵男人的事，因為我覺得這可能不太適合跟聽眾們說，但我真希望我有他改過的講稿，所以有可以跟你們分享，因為真的很好笑！我有點記得" 我喜歡跟男人唱KTV，晚上唱完歌後可以去吃早餐。我會跳上男生的機車，然後前往早餐店，再去看日出…真的是，我希望我能有像他一樣的創造力，全班都笑了，我想他真的是一個帶來歡笑的人。

Making going away gifts 製作小禮物

Here are my plans for making gifts.

Chinese knot- auspiciousness 

Little card with Chinese characters "吉祥" hanging below the Chinese knot+ my Chinese stamp on the back of the card.

Thank you card: Print Xiexie in Chinese calligraphy font to put on the card.

我的規劃是：

吉祥結

吉祥話+我的印章(吉祥話後面)

卡片上面有謝謝的書法字

終於完成小禮物的製作！

Phew! I finally finish the present making.

There are a few ones I made earlier: Chinese paper cut and Chinese knots as hair decorations.
還有一些是之前完成的：剪紙+ 中國結髮飾

I really want to make more, but I did not have materials left. Hehe.. YEAH!! Hope my friends will like the gift I made to them.

我是真的想要多做一些，但是沒有材料了。耶!! 希望我的朋友會喜歡我做給他們的小禮物！

The lesson from Lindt Truffle Chocolate

I felt like I was so silly that I just found out one thing today. I have some chocolate every month during some period of time. I have noticed the wrappings of the chocolate are different which are red, yellow, and blue. Besides, I have noticed the chocolate are different in these three different wrappings. Even though I had never thought of it carefully that what exactly is the difference between these three chocolates. Now I know it clearly when I had these three ones together today.

The red wrapping one - black chocolate
The gold one - white chocolate
The blue one- white chocolate with cocoa nibs (my favorite)

P.S: The Lidnt Truffie Chocolate I had were in a cherry blossom cup. Both the cup and chocolate are gifts from Parker's family when I visited them after my first week in the USA. They were meaningful presents for me because it was my first warmth I received and felt since I arrived this country.

我實在是很蠢，現在才發現一件事，今天吃剛完了Parker家人送的巧克力（對我意義非凡，因為是我到美國的第一個星期，第一份收到的「溫馨」。），我每個月某個時候都會吃個二、三顆，我知道包裝不一樣，紅色、金色和藍色…也知道裡面的巧克力不一樣，但我從來沒有去細想，今天第一次三顆不一樣巧克力一起吃，才明顯的分別出到底是那裡不同…
紅色--黑巧克力
金色--白巧克力
藍色--白巧克力加可可粒 (我最愛的)

The thought I have from today is: although we don't like to be compared with someone or some people, it is quite easy and obvious to know the difference, strength, weakness of each person if you are put to compared with other people. It is like a job interview. The interviewers can tell who may be the better candidate for the job position if they interview interviewees in a row. However, if you just see every interviewee individually without comparison, he or she has different personal traits and strength. It may be a little tough to tell who may be more suitable for the position.

所以，今天的感想是：雖然我們都不喜歡被比較，但是有時候被一起比較時，差別和落差真的很容易馬上被分辨出來，就有點像在工作面試時，面試官接連著面試時，可能一眼馬上比能分辨誰比較合適…但是如果把面試者個個打散時，每個人其實都有特色，可能很難馬上分的很清楚每個人特色…

Easter egg hunt 復活節撿彩蛋

Unlike yesterday, it was such a great weather in the morning. It was shinny but I still felt cold because of the wind. Even though I like the weather like this, warm but not too cool. It was a perfect day for egg hunting.

不像昨天，今天的天氣非常好，雖然陽光普照，但我還是覺得冷，不過這樣的天氣是我喜歡的，很適合拾蛋喔！

The kids looked very excited and the eggs they prepared were more than I had expected. Actually, I wanted to be one of them to be able to pick up the eggs, but I guess I was too big for it and it was better not to fight with the kids for the eggs. ^_^ Even though, watching them picking up the eggs was still fun. 

小孩們都看起來很興奮，而且他們放的彩蛋比我想像中的多，我也想要跟他們一樣可以撿彩蛋，但我想我可能太大了，還是不要跟小孩搶蛋吧，而且看著他們撿蛋也是挺有樂趣的。

I had thought Easter Day of a religious holiday, but it was a day for kids to have fun and time for family to be together to have fun as well. 

我一直以為復活節是宗教的節日，但是也是小孩玩樂日和家人聚在一起玩樂的日子。

(很多彩蛋吧! See~ many eggs.)

(很多人吧！See~many people!)

(Kids enjoyed it and I enjoyed watching them having fun.
小孩撿蛋撿得很快樂，我也看得很快樂！

Of course I need to take a pic with a Easter bunny.
當然一定要跟復活節兔子拍張照的啦！

This is supposed to be slurpee, right?
這應該是思樂冰吧！(可以自己選口味耶！)

Then, more thing I have learned from the Easter Day is "marshmallow peeps". When I first heard of it, I thought was something people will do on Easter day because of the word "peep". haha.. but it is kind of sweet, not an action la. 

對了，還知道了一個跟復活節有關的東西 " marshmallow peeps"，剛聽到的時候，我以為是「偷看」的這個動作，所以想到是不是復活節時有可能會做的事，經由指導老師的說明，才知道是「有造型的棉花糖」我想放在熱可可裡應該也會很美味吧！ 

( CT) A Lesson Learned from Sudoku 輸給數獨也輸給我自己了

Happened on March 20th
Written on March 27th.


During the whole week, I had done at least two sudokus (beginner and medium). The night before the test, I felt like I can finish the medium one in time and still have time to challenge the difficult one. However, what happened was not what I had expected.
整整一個星期我至少做兩個數獨(初&中級)，而考試前晚我還想說根據我之前的記錄，覺得我應該可以在時間內完成中級的，而且還會有時間挑戰高級的，但事實卻不然…

Such a big failure. That deeply and heavily hurt my confidence. The moment when I left the classroom, I was still holding a grudge against myself; then I blamed myself; next I felt sad. What's even worse was that I had only 5 mins to to clam myself down before I met my supervisor.
挫敗!!重重地傷了我的自信…當我離開教室的那一刻，先是不甘心、再來是自責、接著是難過，慘的是我只有五分鐘整理我的情緒，因為我跟指導老師約了見面…

If you could not get a good result after making all of the efforts, why should we still be working hard? That was my first question for myself. I understand when people told me that if you don't work hard, you never get a good result. Even though, the failure in the reality made me really depressed and kept blaming myself for the thing which I definitely could make it but I did not. Does this situation imply something about me?
如果努力得不到好結果，那為什麼還要努力呢？這是我的第一個問題，雖然我知道不努力永遠得不到好結果，可是現實的挫敗還是讓我很沮喪..而且我明明可以做到的，這到底是說明什麼？我的能力不好? 抗壓性不高? 期望太高?

Besides, I lost not only my confidence but my memorable rings and hair band. On the same day, I found my ring was gone when I finished the test and my pretty hair band from my sister was gone too after I finished the restroom. The lost of the ring and hair band made the lost of feeling even stronger. Right after the mini Chinese class, I went home. On the way home, I then again kept blaming myself for being not able to do what I could have made it. But why could not I make it? Thinking about this, I didn't sleep well last night. I wanted to sleep to ease myself, but I couldn't. The boxes and numbers of sudoku were hanging around in my mind.
再加上，我不只是失去了我的自信，我的一些東西也不見了，考完試後，發現我的尾戒不見了，而上完廁所，也發現妹妹給我的漂亮髮飾也不見了，失去這些東西讓我更加「輸得徹底」勉強自己上完中午的中文課後，馬上回家…路上不斷的責怪自己，明明就可以做到的，但為什麼卻做不到呢？那晚也睡不好，想睡卻睡不著，數獨的格子和數字一直在我腦海裡揮之不去，可惡啊！


It took about one week for me to recover from depression and to take out my failed sudoku sheet to take a close look. Facing this blue and hateful sudoku sheet twitches my heart. The battle between self-denial and self-value is very likely still happened again and maybe often. However, time is a really good medication to cure the symptom of sadness and misery.  Being a loser sometimes helps me know my limits and things I should work on. So..jiayou and never ever give up yourself.

 

                                  (After the test, I tried again.)       (The one I have learned the lesson from.)

而一個星期後，我漸漸不再沮喪，也可以拿出我的那張讓我感受失敗的數獨單，看著這藍色可恨的單子，我的心還是會抽痛一下平常心寫這篇文章，不斷的自我否定和尋找自我價值的戰鬥可能還是會發生，而且是可能是常常發生，但是，時間真的是很好的良藥，可以治療悲傷和苦難，當一個失敗者只是讓我清楚我的極限和我可以努力的方向。

所以，加油吧！千萬不要放棄自己

Relax after Speech 終於可以放鬆一下

I slept so well that I didn't want to wake up this morning. However, in order to practice my speech which I need to modify again, I snoozed a little and still get up to get ready for my speech.
昨晚睡得特別好，所以今早真的不想早起，但是為了練習演講，賴了一下下床後還是決定起來好好準備演講。

As I mentioned earlier, I really feel helpless and stressful about the speech this time. Therefore, I spent lots of time collecting information. I first make sure I understand the material I am going to use and then I drafted the speech. (Just in case you don't really know me that well, I would like you to know that I have no ideas or any concepts of stock or business.)
這次的演講如我先前所說的，讓我非常不知所措。
所以花了一些時間搜集資料，讓我自己先懂要說明的內容後，才開始打演講稿，如果你不是很了解的我的話，我在此說明一下，我對於這種股票、商業性質的內容一點點的概念都沒有…

With the encouragement from D and diligently preparation of the materials, I kind of have a feeling that I may make it.
因為D的鼓勵再加上花時間整理資料，在準備過程中，有感覺我應該可以做到


And I really made it today. OH-------- YEAH!!

而今天我真的做到了！喔~~~~~~~~~~~~耶!!

Frankly speaking, I was very very nervous this time. While making speech, I was not even sure I know what I was talking about. There are a few seconds my brain is blank. Even though, I got the best grade for this speech.
說實在的，我這次真的很緊張，在演講時，我都不是很確定我自己在說什麼，有那種幾秒頭腦是空白的，但演溝後的結果反而是我目前成績最高的。

I can't believe that I really made it.
我真不敢相信我做到了!!

When I was home, I decided to make a big meal, nothing special, but just to cook something different to reward myself. (Instead of saying cooking something different, I would also say put whatever I have to cook.)
回家後，決定煮個大餐，但也沒什麼特別，只是煮點不一樣，或是說雜燴:，就是有什麼就加進去，來獎勵自己。

BTW, on the way home today, I noticed of the green spouts on the trees. Spring is here. I feel like I am so blessed watching the scene in front of me. (PS. This morning the bus driver said I am a princess and that reminded me of my father.)
對了，回家的路上，發現樹木開始發綠芽了，春天來了，而當下看著眼前的景色，我覺得我好幸福喔！(PS 今早公車駕駛說我是princess耶，讓我突然想起了我爸爸…)

(CT) I was the one? 萬屏中選？

Date: March 15th (Thu)

This time is an activity for self-promoting in 3 mins to tell the class that you are the best candidate for the Ark.
這一次的作業，簡單來說就是每個人有３分鐘說明自己為什麼是可以上方舟的最佳人選。


When I knew the content of the activity, I asked the teacher to know what NOT to say to avoid any compliments from classmates or hatred between countries, because I may be the only one who looks like a slightly different from the classmates and some of them know I am not an American.

當我知道活動內容時，我問了老師，因為我看起來可能是唯一一個不是美國人的學生，所以我不知道我應該要注意什麼才不會引起民怨，或是有什麼是我要注意的不要造成國際仇恨…呵。

Of course everyone has different and unique personal traits. However the interesting part for me is someone said she should be the candidate because she is good at throwing parties; someone said he is the youngest in the class and he doesn't want to die at this young; some people said they have great leadership; a few said they have kids at home so they know how to take care of people. To my surprise, the classmates didn't take this activity seriously and it was quite obvious that some of them just come up their words at the last moment. Unlike me, I was so nervous to death that I would say something wrong.  Almost everyone finished in a very very short time. The teacher didn't have the chance to use the stopwatch.

很有趣的是，每個人都有特長，但有人說應該要選她因為她很會辦派對，有人說因為他是年紀最小的，而他不想死，也有一些人說他很有領導能力，也有人說家裡有小孩，很懂得照顧人…等。意外的是，大家似忽並不是把這項功課看得很重，每個人上去不到三分鐘就下來了，而且很多人都是臨時才想的…等，不像我緊張的要命，怕我會說錯話。

To my another surprise, I was the chosen one. The teacher didn't say my name right and he looked at my direction. I thought it was the boy sitting behind me, or I would definitely have a BIG smile. After the class, the teacher said congratulations to me and I realized that was me. Wow. this is definitely one of the best birthday presents I have had.
很意外的，最後的結果竟然是我，因為老師並沒有把我的名字唸清楚，但他看我這裡，所以我以為是坐在我後面的男生，要不然我當下一定是一個大大的笑容…下課後，老師跟我說恭禧時，我才知道那個人是我！哇！這肯定是我最棒的生日禮物之一囉！！

The idea of this activity is let us practice how to promote yourself for the future job interviews. How to leave a good impression and have people think you are the one they want is a great goal to think of it all the time.
這個活動的目的是當然不是因為真的有方舟，而是為了要讓學生練習面對以後的面試，怎樣讓人留下好印象，又能讓人家覺得你就是他們想要的那個人，這是值得長時間思考的。

AYRQ (Ark) of Humanity Competition

• THIS CLASS HAS BEEN SELECTED.  ONE MEMBER OF THE CLASS WILL BE GRANTED ADMITTANCE ON BOARD THE AYRQ (Ark) OF HUMANITY.  MAY THE BEST QUALIFIED PERSON BE SELECTED.
  Do YOU have what it takes to be selected?
  AYRQ Competition Rules
  
  1. Each person will have up to three minutes to present his/her argument as to why he/she is the best selection of all the people in the class for admittance aboard the AYRQ.
  2. Once all applicants have spoken, there will be a vote.  One vote per person, and no individual may vote for his/herself. 
  3. The individual with the most votes wins.
  4. The top vote earner will recieve a seat on the AYRQ, as well as a 100 for the assignment.  The top two runners-up will receive an A (94).
  Happy presenting

Revise the Song Need You Now 改寫歌詞"我需要你"

Thinking I will have so many things to do this week, I was so stressed last night.


I have two speeches, two assignments, one presentation, one paper, and some activities to go. I could not sleep well and ended up to sleep in the couch in the living room around 11pm. While I was half sleepy, the song "I need you now" was playing from my laptop. Then, when I woke up around 2 am, I heard this song again. Therefore, to keep myself awake to do some work, I revised the song for fun. Having some entertainment like it, I was sober until 5 am. Then, I dozed off for an hour. Mm.. not sure how to describe this kind of life, but I surely don't want it too often.


Song " Need You Now" by Lady Antebelum
(Black words: original lyrics; green words: revised lyrics)

Picture perfect memories scattered all around the floor
Reachin' for the phone 'cause I can't fight it anymore
And I wonder if I ever cross your mind
For me it happens all the time
Paper, perfect memos scattered all around the floor

Reaching for the food cause I can’t stay up anymore

And I wonder if I ever clear my head

For me it happens all the time

It's a quarter after one, I'm all alone and I need you now
Said I wouldn't call but I lost all control and I need you now
And I don't know how I can do without
I just need you now
It’s a quarter after one, I’m all alone and I need food now.

Said I wouldn’t cook but I lost all control and I need food now

And I don’t know how I can do without

I just need food now.

Another shot of whiskey can't stop looking at the door
Wishing you'd come sweeping in the way you did before
And I wonder if I ever cross your mind
For me it happens all the time 
Another shot of whiskey can’t stop gurgling at the night

Wishing you’d come cooking me the food you did before

And I wonder if I ever clear my head

For me it happens all the time.

It's a quarter after one, I'm a little drunk and I need you now
Said I wouldn't call but I lost all control and I need you now
And I don't know how I can do without
I just need you now
It’s a quarter after one, I’m a little hungry and I need food now.

Said I wouldn’t cook but I lost all control and I need food now.

And I don’t know how I can do without

I just need food now.

woah woaaah.

Guess I'd rather hurt than feel nothin' at all

Guess I’d rather dream than feel hungery at all

Happy Birthday? 生日快樂?

I have decided to break my discouraged mood due to Friday's bad performance on my speech during the weekend and get ready to study hard from today. Unexpectedly, I got a phone call from my sister. My family only calls me during the weekend except emergency. They won't call me on the week days. I tried to get on skype as fast as possible. Once I got on it, I got "Happy Birthday" from my father, mother and sister. It was my mother who remembered today is my lunar birthday, so she asked my sister to call me. That was really touched.

當我在週末決定要打破因星期五演講不利而有點失志的情緒時，今早接到妹妹的來電，只有緊急的時候我家人才會在非週末日打電話給我，所以我趕緊上skype，結果家人每人一句「生日快樂」，原來是老媽想起今天是我農曆生日，叫妹妹打電話給我，真的很感動…

When you used to some routines, for example to celebrate birthday with your family, you don't feel those routines are so special that you really appreciate them. Only when you don't have your routine or lost it, you will come to realize that actually you are blessed when having it.

當你很習慣一些「例行公事」時，譬如每年和家人一起過生日，
你不會覺得有什麼特別，也不會特別去珍惜
只有當你失去或不再擁有時，你才會去感受到那份幸福


Usually I don't actively celebrate my birthday, but not today. I bought some chocolate to treat my students in Chinese class. Certainly, we reviewed "shengri" by the way. I was happy while seeing students eat chocolate and have energy for class. I think it is because I did something different on my birthday: make myself and others happy.

Keep going, Kelly. Jiayou!

通常我並不會特別主動去慶祝我的生日，但今天不一樣，
我買了巧克力請中文課的學生吃，當然也順便複習一下「生日」囉
不知道為什麼我覺得很高興，也許是因為我在我的生日做了一點不一樣的事：讓我自己和別人快樂。

Kelly~繼續加油啊！

(CT) Group Discussion & Frosty Ground 分組討論和結霜的大地

It was white on the ground, not snowing, but frosty. Although it was very cold, I feel very happy and excited without a reason. I think it may be I do not have to go somewhere to see beautiful frosty ground, but here. It was a pity that I did not bring my camera with me.

早上起來上課看到白白一片，不是下雪，而是結霜了，

雖然很冷，但莫名地覺得幸福，因為我不用特別去別的地方看遍地結霜，這裡就有了。

(可惜的是我沒有帶相機)

Today we had a group discussion to decide what to share with rest of the class what you have learned. However, we talked about why the teacher would assign us the presentation. (Sigh and speechless...)

A: I don't know what I have learned.

B: No one will have interests hearing other people's stories.

What surprised me was that when we talked about "relationship", what came to their mind is the relationship between their boy friends, but not to me. Therefore, I don't know if that means I am getting older, or they are young.

今天的上課是分組討論，下次上課要上台分享我們目前所學到的，

而當我們一開始討論的是為什麼老師要給我們作業，(無言…)

A: 我根本不知道我學到了什麼？

B: 不會有人想要聽我的故事…

令我訝異的是，我們這一組裡，

似忽沒有人關係良好：和他們的男朋友，

而且一討論到「關係」，他們馬上想到的是與男朋友之間的關係

嗯~真不知是我老了，還是他們太年輕了…

Honestly, I have learned a lot from this class for sure.

Plus, I think the purpose to share your story is not the story itself but the lesson or critically thinking you have learned from your experience. Meanwhile, the rest of the class may learn some thoughts by your experience and stimulate them to have some critical thinking. While discussing, I felt like the era of being a young college student was so far away from me.

說實在的，我目前學到了很多，

而且我想老師要我們分享的目的不是你的故事，

而是希望你從你的故事學到了一些批判性思考

也能帶給同學一些不一樣的想法

唉！在討論的同時，我真的覺得我離年輕的大學時代好遠好遠~~

Course: Critical Thinking 批判性思考

I had postponed this for too long, so I have to write it do. I want to record the moment and procedures of my thinking.

很久以前就想寫了，今天一定得寫，因為我想記錄我思者的瞬間和過程。

First of all, I switched the class of American music to Critical Thinking which is much more interesting than I expected. I have interests and huge expectations to this class when the teacher first began "The unexamined life is not worth living by Socrates", including the interesting class activities.

首先，我換課了，從American Music 換成「Critical Thinking」這門課
我覺得這門課比我想像中的有趣。
從老師開頭的介紹：The unexamined life is not worth living -Socrates
還有老師說話和表達的方式(不拘小節的人)、有趣課程活動介紹
讓我對這門課充滿了滿滿的期待(雖然作業比較多一點，得要很早就起來…)

During the first class, the teacher want the whole class to figure out what happened based on the fact that a person died in the desert with hand holding a match. Although I got it that it may be relevant to his family, it is always right with the saying " Two heads are better than one." I realized that sometimes the answer of No is not always bad. Instead, "No" can help you think of other possibilities. When you get all of the "NO", you get the "YES".

第一次正式上課，老師要全班一起尋找事件發生的真相
死者在沙漠中，手握一根火柴 => 這是我們所知道的
雖然在猜的過程中我大概清到跟家人有關，
但「三個臭皮匠勝過一個諸葛亮」所言不假，
故事的原由並不重要，但我了解到：
有時候「No」並不是不好的，反而「不」可以幫助思索其他的可能性，
當你得到全部的「No」時，你得到的是「Yes」

Secondly, this was a team-work activity, so you have to listen what other people said. Sometimes, we live in the world that we give ourselves the answers we want; therefore, we are not willing to listen to other people's thoughts. Nevertheless, what other people think of could be the ones you never think of and their ideas or answers could be a piece of life puzzle you need.

其次，這是團隊合作，所以你得聽別人說的，
有時候人都活在自己所給的答案中，所以並不會也不願去聽別人的想法
但是，有時別人所想到的，是你從沒想過的，而那也許就是你需要的人生一小塊拼圖

CT_Seven items_七件物品

For the first activity in this class, we were asked to bring 7 items to represent yourself, so I brought
1. a pen with a flashlight on the top 
2. post-it with the shape of the bubble talk
3. some chocolate with wrapping paper in different colors
4. a toy spinner with 8 adjectives to describe people (such as kind, crabby,happy, worried..)
5. a sporty water bottle (You can fold it to very small and not space-occupied when no water in it)
6. a rubber band
7. a piece of bubble pad or wrap


這堂課的第一個活動就是帶七件物品來代表你自己，所以我帶了：
1.一枝筆後面有照明功用(手電筒)
2. N次貼(是平常漫畫看到人物說話的形狀)
3. 一些巧克力(有不同顏色包裝紙包著)
4. 一個玩具旋轉盤，上面有八種形容人性情的英文
5. 一個運動型的水壺(沒有水的時候可以摺起來，不佔空間)
6. 一條橡皮筋
7. 一片泡泡軟墊

Some of the classmates brought clothes, family photos, books, CDs,etc. I could be over thinking because it was a little bit difficult to know about me by the first sight of some items. 
有些同學帶了衣服、家人照片、書或是CD，我想我可能想得太多，因為有些我帶來的東西很難在第一間就推出我是怎樣的一個人。

Could you guess why I brought these 7 items.
你能想出我帶這七件物品的用意嗎？

1. Caring people in need- I hope when some people need help or a light to brighten their ways, I will be somewhere they can reach.
2. Not a talker and social person- therefore I like to write down my thoughts or put them on mind
3. You have to open the wrapping and you will know what flavor or color it is. It implies that I am not the person you may see on the surface.
4. Sometimes I am moody and changeable
5. Environmental friendly and I don't like something take too much space or heavy.
6. Flexible
7. Not very firm and try to avoid conflicts; want to protect something I think precious for me

So, two of the classmates have to describe you based on 7 items you brought and show. (Of course, they will not know who you are and they won't know the answer unless you told them it's you.)
班上有兩位同學要根據他們所看到的七件物品去描述他/她會是怎樣的一個人，當然他們是不知道描述的人是誰，除非你告訴他們。

Below is the description I got from my classmates. The first one cracked me up. The second one made me speechless. Enjoy them.
以下則是兩位同學對我的描述，第一個讓我覺得很好笑，第二個則是讓我無言，慢慢看吧！

<One>
A Lindt white chocolate truffle, an ink pen, bubble wrap, a game spinner, a water bottle, a rubber band, and an empty cartoon caption bubble. Hummmm, Bond, James Bond. The empty cartoon bubble represents the secrets that you know but can not reveal. The spinner shows that along with skill luck plays an important role in your world. You pop the bubble wrap to sound like gun fire so that your enemies think you have backup and flee in fear. You use the chocolate to seduce secrets from your informants. But, when they won’t talk the pen contains a hypodermic of truth serum, or a blow dart for protection – depends on what Q had in the stock room that week. And to celebrate a job well done, the water bottle contains freeze dried martinis, just add water. Shake, don’t stir.


<Two>

• early 20s
• Male
• Caucasian 
• Store clerk
• Hiking, cooking
• only child
• married
• bubbly, hard-working, loner

I think basically my classmates thought I was a young male. (Sigh...)

practice driving & get sick 練習開車+生病了

I asked my supervisor for help to show me how to drive and if I was allowed to drive his car which must terrify him.
我問我的指導老師是不可以給我示範怎麼開始，並且讓我開他的車練習(這一定讓他很害怕)。


I was happy that he said yes to both of my requires. I practiced driving in the school part lots and my supervisor was very patient and kind to remind me all the way while driving. Driving here seems easlier than driving in Taiwan but I still have lots of space to get improved. I wish there is a great GPS like my supervisor to give some directions but the reminders to the rookie like me.

我很高興他答應了我的請求，我在學校的停車場練習，而當我在練習時，指導老師非常有耐心地提醒我，在美國這裡開車似忽比在台灣開車簡單一點，但是我還是有很多進步的空間。我希望有一種給新手駕駛的衛星導航，除了會給你方向告訴怎麼走以外，也會像我的指導老師一樣提醒我怎麼開車。

On the way back, we saw a car accident, and I definitely don't want that experience and won't have it happened to me. What I want is to drive at least one time to visit some places. Without a car, you can't really go anywhere, and I feel bad to always bother people to give us rides.
回家時，看到了一場車禍，而我絕對不要有那種經驗，也絕對不要讓那發生，我想要的只是在這裡開一次車到處看看，因為沒有開車你去不了任何地方，而我也不好意思每次都麻煩別人。

After practicing driving, I felt like I was sick and was wondering how could this happened. I had a running nose, sore throat and sneeze. I have to say that Western medicine is really effective that I slept for about 12 hours after taking some pills and my symptoms relieve a lot, but I still felt very sleepy. Being sick is also not the experience I wanted to have. I dislike weakness.

練習開完車後，我覺得我生病了，也納悶這怎麼會發生呢！流鼻水、喉嚨痛，還一直打噴涕。我必須說，西藥真的很有效，我吃完藥後，睡了快12個小時，起來後還想睡，但是我覺得比較好了，生病也不是我想要的體驗，我不喜歡虛弱的我



What I have observed: Driving here seems not hard but I need lots of practice before I hit the road.

What I experience: Driving by my supervisor's car around the speed limit 20. Being sick and felt homesick and helpless while I was sick.

School started. 第二學期開始囉！

雖然在星期五開學有點奇怪，但是這對學生應該不錯，因為學生有一個周末的時間來準備"真正的"開學。
It was wired that the school started on Friday, but it should be good for students to get real ready to school over the weekend.


我有快一個沒有看到學校了，看到學校有很多學生走來走去，可以感受到學校的活力呢！這個學期我修了兩門課：美國音樂和演說。聽完第一天的課程介紹，我覺得我選了兩門很難的課，因為要花很多時間準備考試和演講，而且這學期我的教學職責也比較重，多了一些類似語言角落的課和中國新年活動的準備。


I hadn't seen the school for a while, almost a month I think. Seeing lots of people walking in the campus I can feel the energy of the school. For this semester, I take the courses of American music and public speaking. After the first day of introducing the class content, I feel like I have chosen very hard courses which need lots of studying for the tests and speech and I have more duties for Mandarin as well such as the mini class and Chinese New Year event. 


就美國音樂這堂課來說，看起來很多東西要聽和讀，即使老師說會有一點作業和考試，但根據老師說的"一點點"，對學生而言是"很多"，因為作業和考試是老師的評分基礎和確保學生有讀書。
For American music, it seems we have to listen and read a lot. Even though the teacher said there will be a few assignments and tests, but according to the experience I had last semester. I know "a few" for teachers means "a lot" for students because tests and assignments are the basic reference for teachers to grade and make sure students to study.


沒有人不會注意到演說老師戴的領帶，是有個超人圖案、紅藍鮮明的領帶，我聽說因為他的教學特質很特別，而看到他的領帶，我就知道他的聲譽其中一部份是來自那裡了。我也不會忘記他舉的例子，要當個親吻高手，你得要常常練習親吻人，雖然他後來提到開車當另一個例子，我也非常同意他說的練習才能成為高手，但是他的"親吻"例子讓我印象深刻。
No one would not notice the tie the teacher was wearing. It was a big superman on the tie with bright red and blue colors. I heard this teacher is famous because of his special teaching style and I know part of his fame from seeing his superman tie. I will never forget what he said in class that to be a good kisser, you need to practice a lot and to be a good public speaker is the same principal. Then, he used driving as another example, and I could not agree with him that practice makes perfect but the kissing example impressed me.


目前，因為這學期看起來很難的兩門課和更多的教學職責，我非常的焦慮，再加上剩下不到四個半月的時間我就要離開了，我覺得我必需要好好管理自己的時間才行。
I am anxious because of the seem-to-be-hard class I take and more duties of teaching. Plus, there will be less than 4.5 months for me before I leave. I feel like I definitely need to manage my time well.


我觀察到的：
開學第一天，大部份的學生都在找教室，找到教室後就在教室裡發呆。


What I have observed: first day of the school, most of the students will look for their classroom and idle in the classroom doing nothing.


我體驗到的：
(1) 下公車後，有人稱讚我的笑容，這讓我很高興。
(2) 做了一些中國的剪紙，中國新年活動用。


What I experienced: 
(1) a man praised my smile when I got off the bus. 
(2) did some Chinese paper cutting for Chinese New Year event.

NYE & NY 新年夜和新年

Mm... I think it is kind of weird to celebrate the new year with a friend I know not much. However, the idea to show him how to make a hot pot made me forget that. Plus, most of the people were out of the town for the holiday or to celebrate with their family. Anyway, it would be better to celebrate with someone and I know he is a good person.
嗯，我想這可能有點奇怪，因為我跟一個我不是很認識的朋友一起慶祝新年夜，但煮火鍋的想法讓我忘了這一點，再加上這一天，大部份的人都回家了，要不就是跟家人一起慶祝，反正，這總比自己一個人慶祝好，而且我知道他是個好人。

We went to get some materials for hot pot and then we started to cook. It still amazed me that men in USA help in the kitchen spontaneously. I felt nervous not because a man was in the kitchen but because I was not really good at cooking. I was afraid to leave him a bad impression that Taiwanese women don't know how to cook.
我們買煮火鍋的材料後，我們就開始煮了。我還是對於男人主動在廚房幫忙這一點感到很驚奇，我有點緊張，不是因為有個男人在廚房，還是因為我真的不太會煮菜，我害怕會給他留下台灣女生不會煮菜的印象。

However, it turned out the hot pot we made was really good. (yeh.. I know hot pot is not hard to make.) Having a hot pot in a foreign country made the hot pot more delicious. No kidding!!
結果是我們煮的火鍋真的很好(是是是，我知道火鍋不是很難煮…)，但是在異鄉吃火鍋讓火鍋吃起來特別好吃！我是說真的！

Then, we played Xbox with kidnet to burn some calories. He seemed like a patient person. No matter how bad I drove the car in the game, he would tell me how to drive better next time when playing.  About 30 minutes before midnight, watching TV to know what was going on in Time Square, counting down with a champagne were the things I had never done. Nice!!
接者我們玩Xbox燃燒一些熱量，他似忽是個有耐性的人，不管我在遊戲裡開車開得多爛，他都會跟我說一些小技巧，所以每次再玩時，愈來愈好…，11:30分左右我們看電視，看看時代廣場的情況，喝香檳倒數…等，這些是我還沒做過的事，太棒囉！

On the New Year Day, I felt like the mood to have my next adventure somewhere not in this house. Therefore, the idea of visiting Miami crossed my mind and I looked up the ticket and email friends there right way. Wow.. this is kind of thing I did when my friend and I took the trip to Osaka in Japan. I was really excited and glad I made this prompt travel plan. I don't like the part of me to be a overthinker and I sometimes do thing on an impulse. Yeah! Hooray~ Free will!!
新年第一天，我想要開始我的下一個冒險(不是在這房子裡的冒險)，所以起想來我可以去邁阿密，當下我就看了機票，也寫了email給在邁阿密的朋友。哇!! 我覺得這就像我和朋友去日本大阪的旅行，我非常的興奮也很高興我很快地就決定這個冒險，我不喜歡我自己想太多，所以有時候我會衝動地做一些事情。耶!!自由意識萬歲！

Early Xmas Celebration 提早慶祝聖誕節

Americans will put up Christmas decoration after Thanksgiving so I always feel they celebrate Christmas early, but it was enjoyable to see Christmas decorations to feel the holiday atmosphere.
在美國他們在感恩節後就開始聖誕節的裝飾了，所以我總覺得他們很早就慶祝聖誕節了，話雖如此，我還是很喜歡看到聖誕節的裝飾，感受過節的氣氛

Here I was at Pat's house. They began already since I was late because of my Chinese class. They were waiting for me to start the "secret Santa". We had to prepare a present respectively to your Santa who you were told by an email. Picking up a good present to receiver is always not easy and I felt it was harder for me to get used to their tradition - open the present when they receive it. I mean I am not a picky person to present I receive. I just felt that I like to enjoy the touched feeling afterward by myself and maybe have some water around eyes which I can not do it in front of others. I know I know... Don't refrain your feelings.

我來到了Pat的家，我因為上中文課的關係晚到，所以他們已經開始慶祝了，但他們在等我進行「祕密聖誕老人」，我們要準備禮物給我們各自的對象，我們會收到email告知你是誰的聖誕老人。挑選禮物總是件不容易的事，但要適應當場就拆禮物的這個傳統讓我覺得比挑禮物還難些，我想是因為我喜歡獨自一個人享受收到禮物的感動吧，有時太感動眼睛也許會有淚水，當然這是不可能在大家面前表現出來的。是是是，我知道，不要壓抑自己的感覺。

Back to the celebration, here is a present I got from my sweet and nice riend, Megan.
回到主題，這是貼心人又好的Megan送我的禮物。

So.. what's inside? Let's see more pictures.

             

So now you know what present I got!! 很漂亮的袋子喔！

PS: Leaned the game of looking for the pickle. If you can find a pickle in Christmas tree, you can get an extra present. ^_^

PS2: Also learn the phrase "in a pickle".