*约会*你*我*他和她于十七公里海岸*

据闻新竹南僚十七公里海岸赏 夕阳特别漂亮，所以今天我们一行四人慕名而来。

We work hard and we PLAY hard-台南、台中寻古迹。

从马来西亚千里迢迢来到台湾当然不能只待在拉拉山咯。

第一次的假日我们往南出发。

台南是台湾最早被开发的地方，所以说起台湾古迹，当然是台南居多咯。

我喜欢参观古迹，因为古迹是当地的特色，

古迹历史见证了一个地方的过去，透过时间的累积而成，是无法被取代的。

这是我们落脚的饭店。

在我们国家我们都不叫饭店，我们都会说酒店。

但我朋友说酒店在台湾是形容喝酒及可能有陪坐小姐的地方。

Travelling in Taichung - Nantou (part 1)

 Travelling in Taichung - Nantou

Just finishing roamed arounf Taipei on 28th July, I and my friends: Flora and Olga immediately went travelling in Taichung on the next day. We stayed in Shelly house in Taichung. Shelly is an AIESECer girl and she is very nice and kind. We went to Taipei bus station and then buy a ticket of Kuo-kuang bus to Taichung. It costed us 200NTD and took 3 hours to go.
And here are our extremely interesting trip.

 Good morning Taichung!

It was a very fresh morning in Taichung and we noticed that Shelly's father designed a special tour to introduce the culture and beautiful scenery of Taiwan for 3 of us. We ate the breakfast prepared by Shelly's mom and then we got ready for the trip!

 

We went with one Shelly's friend and we talk a lots on the car.

Travelling in Taichung - Nantou (part 2)

...continue from part 1...

The next day, we went to Sanyi wood sculpture museum. Unfortunately, we cannot take picture inside the museum so that I cannot show you the very amazing sculptures here. I think that is worth to spend about 2 hours observing the things here. Shelly's explained a lot of things relating to Taiwanese culture for us. It was interesting and in general, I can see that there are so many similarities of Taiwanese and Vietnamese culture.
This is the full address of the museum: No.88, Guangsheng Shincheng, Sanyi Township, Miaoli County 36744, Taiwan (R.O.C.)
 

The front gate of the museum.

After 2 hours vistiting the museum. We had an appointment with other Taiwanese family. That family is Shelly family's friends and they also host an intern from Europe going to Taiwan for an AIESEC's project.

 Here the children and the moms took picture together.

The first impressions about Taiwan

I arrived Taiwan in a very hot summer day with a long journey from Vietnam to Taipei. The very first impression I have about Taiwan is when the airplane were about to land, the unending sapphire sea with many alluring small islands and azure high sky make me so eager for discovering this tiny but marvellous Formosan island.

 

This is the enchanting scene I can see on the plane.

 I had several days to discover Taiwan before starting my work in the forest. Taipei is a really big capital city with high building, convenient transportation infrustructure, the streets are very clean and people are friendly. I felt that it is a fast-moving and hectic life in the metropolitan area especially when the city lights up.

 

This is a street in the central area near Taipei 101

My first experience in Taiwan 身在他乡之初体验~！

Hello Taiwan. 

Taiwan is a country that I was familiar with. 

This is because in my country –Malaysia, we always watch Taiwan drama, movie, broadcast program and so on. 

Taiwan was the country which I wish to explore since long time ago.

Now, through the international society – AIESEC, I get the chance to exchange to Taiwan to be the international volunteer for Forestry Bureau in Hsin Chu City and will be served at LaLaShan. 

I am required to do the forest interpretation, patrolling, restoring and recording the forest foot path, assisting checking the English signs and guideline of nature center, and building blog to share our experience and update regularly. 

Although all of this is not related to my major which I studied in my university but I still decided to participate in this program because I know this program will expose myself to get to know more about Taiwan. 

台湾，

对我来说是个我非常熟悉的国家。

无论是当地景点、食物、生活或是文化，我都对它有一定的认识, 因为在我国，马来西亚会常常播台湾的电视综艺节目、偶像剧，台剧等等。

所以台湾是一个我一直想去探索的国家。 

通过我就读的大学里的一个社团AIESEC的交换学生计划， 我来到了台湾参与了101年度林務局暑期青年志工，服勤于新竹林管处-拉拉山。

主要工作范围为導覽解說服務、步道巡護、生態監測、雙語解說牌誌之檢視、部落格建置及網路平台行銷等等。 

虽然这些工作内容跟我在大学的主修专业内容毫无关联但我还是决定通过它来让我更了解台湾。 而我现在觉得我做了对的选择。

 

From the first day I reached Taiwan, my host-Pei Chi was treated me very well. 

They make me felt warm. 

They treated me just like their family. 

They provided me accommodation, food and showed me around in Taipei. 

从第一天我到达台湾，

我的寄宿家庭-珮綺及她家人就非常热情地招待我们。

他们让我感觉很温暖，就好像一家人。 

珮綺及她家人给我们准备了住的、用的、吃的，还带我们到处去玩。

The first destination we visited was the National Palace.

隔天，珮綺就带我们到台湾到处逛。第一站就是故宫啦!