Yo Ho!

I finished the progress review just now. I passed! I am a real phd student now. what a relief..but longer reading list and todo list now.

swimming pool

我忘記自己有沒有寫過游泳池的事...
因為我的befriendee小男孩喜歡游泳, 所以我常帶他到附近的室立活動中心游泳
我覺得愛丁堡的游泳池超適合家庭和年輕人玩
在台灣都要穿泳衣, 戴泳帽, 不准跳水
在這裡男生穿著短褲就跳下水了, 也不用帶泳帽, 而且他們超愛跳水!
每個池子都可以跳水
還有特別的跳水池讓愛刺激的男生們跳
跳一百遍他們也不厭倦
我偶而會硬著頭皮陪我的小男孩一起去跳水
看起來不高
可是真的好恐怖
而且要跳成拋物線形還真難
我上次嘗試那麼作, 結果完全失敗, 應該是狗吃屎的姿勢很醜的摔近水裡

以前在台大游泳都是學生和老師
在亞歷山大游泳也是成人居多
我之前去過的泳池都是游泳為主
游太慢會被別人超車 就覺得很幹 壓力很大
不會游泳的人去泳池好像也沒啥無趣
小朋友不多, 而且小朋友可以玩的泳道有很小
也不能盡情的玩, 不然應該會被給白眼

這邊的泳池設備普通
卻是所有人的天堂
你只要帶著自己換洗的衣服
連蛙鏡都可以跟活動中心借
花很少的錢就可以在泳池玩很久
晚上七點時間一到救生員就會搬出大大小小的浮板給大家玩
小朋友超級愛的 年輕人也是搶的要
浮板一出現大家就更high了
總之就是莫名的好玩
整個泳池是以遊樂為目的
認真游泳的人很少
我游泳也需要到處閃躲四處瓢流的人
不過看到大家完得很起勁
心情也跟著好

我想就衛生程度...這邊泳池應該沒有很衛生
尤其小孩多會在水裡偷尿尿
不過我喜歡這裡的游池

In the bookshop

I should have studied hard but I didn't. I am blue recently.

However, I enjoy volunteering at the bookshop. The customers make me happy when they chat with me. I am glad when people tell me how good it is to find the book they want with a cheap price at our shop. I love to hear parents reading books for their children at the bookshop. Today I saw a wee cute girl in our shop. She chose a 'winnie the pooh' book and told her dad, "me want to buy this, papa." She is just too cute.

最近走在路上, 發現秋天已經幫樹木上了新色
被朋友提醒, 才知道這週末就是中秋
秋天也到一半了呢
日子過真快

今天美國朋友跟我說happy 911
已經七年了
can you believe that?! It has been seven years!!
事件發生時, 大四的我, 還在金山的沙灘享受假期玩沙排呢..

白髮

看著自己和朋友頭上掩藏不住的白髮
實在忍不住感嘆 歲月催人老
怎麼剪都剪不完的白髮 真令人心慌
今年我也28歲了
雖然常被說像大學生
我想只是因為作為學生, 穿著就是一派休閒(說實在是個窮樣吧)
但如何都擋不住生理時鐘的一刻不停
很快就要三十拉緊報囉!!  ><

One Year

It has been one year since I arrived Edinburgh. I arrived Cardiff on 5th Spetember last year and moved to Edinburgh on 7th.

Edinburgh is a city that everyone wants to visit again as long as they have been stayed here. Edinburgh is really old but life here is so fascinating. People and things happening here can really touch your heart. When I walked on the street during August. I watched RBS's advertisement-'make it happen' on the stages of Fringe. I really appreciate that Fringe provides an opportunity for every country and culture to show themselves through arts, music and proformance. Every country is equal at the moment. The only thing not so pleasant of the city is that people come and go. In the church, we greet new friends and say goodbye to old friends nearly every fortnight. In our flat, flatmates come and go every three months. This is Edinburgh.

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I'm trying to walk to the Salisbury Crags as long as the weatehr is not bad. Today I took a walk. Autumn arrived Edinburgh so early. It's just the begining of Spetember. Some leaves have already turned red and yellow.