2008年10月23日 星期四

One-day trip to a radio station











My colleague and I visited Ko-sen Radio Station, Chan-Hua on 13th, October. We headed for Chan-Hua in the morning, around 9am. The manager of the radio station is one of the volunteers in NMNS, and his employees and he did a presentation to us, introducing the history, special events of the radio station. After the presentation, we visited the collection room, where many discs are prereserved, and a broadcasting studio, in which a broadcaster was standing by for midday news.

We were fortunate to have a spare broadcasting studio to be broadcasters and really talk in front of the microphone. The radio station employees recorded our conversations and gave each of us a copy. That was a new experience for us and it was great and fun.

After visiting the radio station, the manager treated us dinning at a vegetarian restaurant and he was very talkative so that we were not bored for waiting our meals for almost 2 hours. We then visited the manager’s friend, who is a tea seller. There, we tasted 2 different teas and something happened to me. The seller’s grandson was playing and he called my colleagues aunty, but suddenly he called me mom. That was so embarrassed at that moment and even his grandparents told him I was not his mother, he kept calling me mom. My colleague took a photo of the little boy and I, it seems that we are like each other. That was one interesting thing happened to me on that day.

Generally speaking, it was a great one-day trip.

2008年10月9日 星期四

Hola is Hello

I'm so glad to have your mail.
I don't go to internet-cafe often, so I can't reply you quickly.
How's every body of our club? Have you met often, at least once a week?
Spanish is not easy to learn, especially for my age. You will think it'll be a excuse, right?
Please send the regard to our English teacher Joel, and tell him that I miss him, in Antigua, here are many visitors, so I still can learn English in the same time.
Hope to see you soon.
Ellen

2008年10月4日 星期六


10/1 is the Day of Children. They celebrated in a hall. There's a cake of 120 meters long.

Hello all my friends,
It's been a week that I haven't seen you, how are you?
I arrived on 27th of Sep., almost a week I stay in the small town –Antigua- which is an ancient town with many historic sites. It’s about 40 minutes away from the capital Guatemala City by bus. I really enjoy stay in Antigua. Well, at this moment I do, but when I came here, the first two days I didn't like it, because there were many homeless people or beggars on the street, it really scared me. But now I can get with it. There’s one thing I still don’t like is rain. Right now is the rain season, it rains almost every day. I really hate it. I washed my clothes three days ago, and they still wet. I just came from laundry.
Well, the most important thing is to learn Spanish, that’s why I’m here. They said people of Guatemala and Ecuador speak Spanish better than other Latin-countries. I don’t have any idea of Ecuador, but in Guatemala I think it does. My one on one teacher Milian is good, so I’ll keep learning with her.
I just want to tell you that I’m fine and hope you are as well.
Give me a mail to encourage me sometimes. OK!?
Take care!
Ellen