V.I.D.: Very Important Days for all of us (重要的時光)

As our life came to the habitual track, all days should remind each other. But it never happens here. Every day I can’t stop learning something new, knowing new interesting people, finding new lovely places to see.

But last two days were really very special and important.

On Saturday the 28^th the weather was extraordinary beautiful and I had a chance to spend the whole day communicating with tourists.

在這裡，每天都有新的驚喜，沒有任何一刻是重複的、沉悶的工作。我每天都不停地學習新的事物、認識有趣的新朋友、探索美麗的地方。前兩天對我來說確實很特別且極具重要性。

28^th那天的星期六格外漂亮而我的整個工作天都一直與遊客們互動。

New friend - new experience

It is always a pleasure to see foreigners when you are abroad – the feeling of discovering country unites us. But it is much more pleasant to find Taiwan citizens who speaks English! I enjoy talking to new people, learning more about their life, their views and attitude to everything.

On Saturday I met so many new friends. They were very interested about my work in Dasyueshan, about Russia and my staying in Taiwan. We discussed weather in Russia, in Taiwan and especially in Dasyueshan. I even had a chance to talk about learning languages – Chinese, English and others. And about teaching them.

That day let me find new friends, learn more about daily life in Taiwan and discuss some important issues.

那天，我遇到了很多新朋友。他們對我在大雪山的工作、我的國家—俄羅斯很感興趣。我們聊了關於俄羅斯、台灣與大雪山的氣候變化。我還和他們聊了我在這裡學習中文的心得。那天的確讓我認識更多的新朋友、知道更多台灣的文化以及討論一些重要議題。

Daily work

Sunday instead I’ve spent in the Visitor Center – the other side of our work, the other way of communicating with tourists. Their needs are very different – some wants to know more about location, others seek for a place to have rest, some wants to make photos and talk, and some of them just lost.

星期日呢我則在遊客中心服務前來遊玩的遊客們。每位遊客的需求都不一樣—有者想要知道步道的所在位置、有者想要找個合適的地點休息、有者想跟我照相聊天而有些遊客在“茫茫”的遊客中心迷失了方向。我盡我所能協助他們。=)

Great experience of presenting the map
得到了很棒的經驗向遊客們解說地圖

Foreigners are not frequent guests in Dasyueshan in summer, but I was lucky to meet two of them here. I was double lucky, because they turned out to be from Romania that borders with Russia. I was very happy to talk to them, tell more about my work and help a little.

But what make that day Very Important is visit of the Forest Bureau delegation and the director of the Dongshih District office himself. We wanted to make their stay in Dasyueshan as much hospitable and pleasant as we could. Everyone was very excited about their visit.

                在大雪山，外國遊客是極少的。可是我卻非常幸運能在這裡遇到了兩位。我覺得我雙倍幸運當我得知他們是來自羅馬尼亞(位於俄羅斯的邊境)。我跟他們聊得很盡興。

                回歸正傳，真正促使這重要的一天是林務局代表和東勢林管處局長到訪大雪山啊！！我們嗎每個暑期志工都很期待他們的到來，想讓他們有個美好難忘的旅程。

Visiting our home
參觀我們的“家”

Small tour to the forest trail 
到森林浴步道走一走

We tried to do our best – showing them around forest trails and exhibitions of the Visitor Center. Also we had a chance to talk out our suggestions of improving the Dasyueshan Area.

As they said, they really enjoyed their stay in Dasyueshan and were very pleased about our welcome! All our suggestions were taken into account and there will be some good changes for sure.

There were two very important and very long days and we needed to create something really great. And we found such thing – we decided to go to Houli and ride a bicycle – so traditional time spending in Taiwan.

我們盡力地發揮得淋漓盡致—帶他們走一走森林浴步道及參觀遊客中心。我們也有機會發表一些提升大雪山設施的言論並被告知我們的建議將在未來被錄用。就如他們所說的，他們的確很享受這一趟旅程以及我們的熱情。

另外，我們也有兩天非常重要的“休假”。我們當然要好好利用咯～最後，我們決定到后里騎單車—一個在台灣相當傳統的旅遊方式。

 

Written by Olga

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