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Last Sunday was unforgettable experience. I went to mountain climbing~ from 1500m to top 3000m. I waked up at 3AM and took van with friends to the entrance of mountain. We started climbing at 6AM.

I was nervous about this trip because my physical condition was far from perfect. I felt fever often and didn't do much exercise recently. It was supposed to take 10 hrs at least for return. I was not sure whether I could handle it and one more thing we had to wake up that early. I didn't fall in sleep at all and my stomach was painful which happens to me often when I feel nervous. Even so I knew my physical condition was not really well but I really wanted to go. It's kind of challenge and I need it to approve myself that I am strong and fill my emptiness as well. 

Since we started the adventure, my body had been shaking and heart beat couldn't run quicker as ever. I tried my best to catch up my fellows' speed. After one hour, I gave up. I told my friend, you go first I follow my speed and take care myself. So I slowed down my speed and enjoyed the view besides me. It was much better, although I still kept complaining myself why on earth to torture myself.  I stopped whenever I wanted and took pictures wherever I liked. It was such a nice weather, with cool breeze and not much sun. It's foggy but it made layers of mountain like a mysterious Chinese paint. Group by group passed me and always asked me, do you come alone and where are your friends? I was so embarrassed and said I came for a walk not for climbing. Eventually I got my companies, two senior fellows who walked as slow as me. The total length is 8.5km. We decided just to go as far as 6km.

People I met were very generous and always brought too much food or cooked more than they needed. So I was asked to share theirs and I had never felt hungry at all during this trip.

I did spent 10 hours for return; of course I didn't reach to highest point. But they said I was good enough for the first time to climb the very advanced path. I was proud of myself. I didn't feel exhausted, a little tired maybe. The next day, I felt so great than ever, but I felt really awful in the third morning and it's hard to get up. I felt so sleepy all day. Perhaps the happiness lasted and gave me strength next day, but I was terrible sad last night therefore made me body depressed this morning.

I’m going to leave Arthur’s pass and NZ soon so on my last day off I went to DOC to pick some postcards for myself. I can’t believe, I saw myself on one postcard.

It’s unbelievable. I’m pretty sure that’s me.

There is web-site for these postcard http://postart.co.nz/index.php?page=postcards

The date is 06/07/2008, just after the first biggest snow in Arthur’s pass. It was my day off so I went to Temple Basin to enjoy the snow all around the world. The picture was taken by me on the same day. It’s true!!!

昨天是我在Ivory Towers工作最後一天的前一晚，Stue說按照慣例一定要感受一下hangover上班的感覺，也是我生平第二次喝醉吧！

前幾天，Stue就買了一瓶Tequila，舔口鹽巴一口飲淨Tequila再含一片檸檬，真是帶勁！下午做了Pizza等Marta下了班我們就喝了起來。之前Stue說要做丹麥麵包給我吃，剩沒幾天當然要趕快凹他囉！不過製造過程繁雜長達八九個小時，於心不忍當然要買啤酒致謝一下囉！一邊吃Pizza配著啤酒超棒，不過癮Marta說要去看夕陽，正好Stue的四輪傳動車也修好了，他半醉著仍然帶著我們去兜風。當然四輪傳動不是要在正常的路上走的，我們可是跑在河邊的時頭路和草叢中，這可比Quad bike還要刺激囉！Stue還問我要不要開，ㄟ我怕我會把他的車弄壞還是不要的好，果然Marta比較敢開了一小段。我們太晚出發又加上想要去的路一直被阻擋著只好打到回府。Stue還是想要去Pub買個醉慫恿我說來這麼久沒去Pub晃又沒宿醉上班過怎麼可以，好吧！酒錢就給他花下去囉！臨走之前又來先來一杯Tequila！這次我點的是Dark Beer還挺好呵，不過好大一杯害我一直跑廁所，而且沒有帥哥可以觀賞，聽著Chad講他前女友因癌症過世的故事，這也是我僅有懂的內容，這時我已經微薰到想要做些瘋狂的事情了。Marta說要去Jeff家看看，Yap Let’s go~ 看看有沒有帥哥可以吊一下囉! ㄟ這群Kiwi, English加上Germany，連Marta都聽不太懂他們在講什麼更何況是我呢！還是我們兩個女生比較自在一些囉！藉著一些酒意我們聊了很多小朋友不宜的內容，呵這可是第一次除了跟愛人以外可以聊這鹹濕的話題哈哈~ 真的很不捨就要離開Marta！快一點多了，嗯帶著酒意還真好睡。這次比第一次酒醉感覺很好多，既沒有半夜頭痛到不行，沒有hangover，而且是跟朋友在一起！下次再來Fox的時候再來一次囉！

Ps.這就是Stue特地幫我做的丹麥麵包，昨天他跟妹妹出去玩，還是清晨早上六點半起床幫我做的唷~ Cheers~~

2008/1/17

本來想離開Ri, Ra, So之後一個人來Fox Glacier 工作應該有很多一個人獨處的時間，可以好好的整理照片想想事情，寫點日記跟心得，已經過了一個禮拜了，發現很少有時間好好的寫日記，今天難得一個人，當然也可以選擇跟一群人去喝酒，當初會say no，是以為Marta沒有錢花可能不想去Pub，沒想到她卻要去，應該是不用錢吧！Anyway都say no 了只好說明天又要早起上班，還是乖乖的待在家裡吧。然後送大家離開後，只好乖乖的坐在電腦找事情做囉！這樣也好不是嗎?

剛好是上星期四離開目前最愛的Wanaka來到Fox Glacier。路上的風景真的很美，沿著Lake Wanaka和隔壁的Lake Hawea一路上因為湖景而停了好幾站拍照。

Lake Wanaka

從中午開到Fox Glacier已經是六點了。本來以為Hostel應該就在主要幹線上，到了這個只有一條道路的小鎮看著BBH的地圖還是一點頭緒都沒有，只好下車問商店(因為也找不到i-site或其他information center)，還好Ivory Towers就在某個小路的轉角而已。一到剛好是老闆在，給我一個Dorm Room的床並請要我今天唯一要做的事就是去Lake Matheson，這大好的晴天可以看到倒影。我本以為是要看夕陽的倒影想說先弄東西吃八九點再去剛好看夕陽囉。結果我八點去樹林其實還不小，一個人走還真有點害怕，有遇到一個家庭又不好意思一直跟著人家屁股走，只要走到一半就折回來。不過還拍到不少漂亮的倒影，還想說應該白天來有太陽拍應該會更漂亮，沒想到後來聽人家說，可以看到像鏡面的倒影一天只有兩個時間，一個是清晨另一個是傍晚，呵呵誤打誤撞竟被我遇到最好的時機。

Lake Matheson

隔天我就要求要開始上班，一開始老闆Dale就叫我跟著Stue舖床清廚房，其實也沒什麼教，那就照自己的方式做囉。來了這一個禮拜，對工作沒什麼好與不好，真的覺得同伴很重要，會喜歡上這裡，我想跟Marta有絕對的關係。她是一個很愛玩的女生，我想很多西方女生都是這樣吧，又剛好她很喜歡中國，這也就是為什麼跟她很容易相處的原因吧！

Marta是智利女孩，老實說我本以為她跟我差不多年紀，果然外國人真的看起來比較老，後來跟她相處知道她的背景後，才想說他應該沒有我年紀那麼大，果真只有26歲。她是一個很活潑的女生，很容易到處交朋友，也虧她讓我認識很多backpackers，不過好的帥哥她應該會撿走吧，縱使她四個月前才在中國人遇到目前的英國男朋友，兩人三月都要回到智利工作，在這裡沒有男友在身邊，她也是會想要跟別的男人hang out在一起，kiss、hung but no sex，所以會有這樣的想法是很正常的嗎？改天問問如果她男友也這樣的話會怎樣好了！

我們旅館就只有三個員工，另一個就是Stue了，如果沒有認知錯誤的話，他年紀應該也不小了吧，好像有兒子之類點點點，應該背景滿複雜的吧！他曾是個廚師，在我還沒來之前Marta天天享用他的餐點，不過他不再下廚應該是前一天Stue做了甜點給Marta卻看到有個男人環著Marta的肩在我們旅館的電影院裡，她說因此Steu一天不跟她說話。Yap, she is that kind of girl who would like to ask her out and try for further relationship because she is funny and love to talk with people.

Marta and Me

另一個常出現的還有之前的Manager, Sid,就是他帶來的weed ( 我想應該是翻成菸草,另一種講法就是mashroom, 其實是made from marijuana), 讓我第一次嘗試了菸草，剛開始抽的一兩次並沒有特別的感覺，因為那個吸煙不太一樣，必須把煙從喉嚨吸入食道胃部，再從口中出來的煙就減少很多。雖然試了很多次還是很難拿到訣竅。昨天要去海邊前，我們又抽了一些，這次煙進去時到了，喉嚨覺得很嗆，像是被煙嗆的一樣不舒服，會有灼熱感覺，說實話這會是我不想抽太多的原因。大概過了十幾分鐘後，發現自己好像有些昏昏的，並不是暈而是輕飄飄的(Marta說只就是stoned)，坐在車上時，真的發覺自己肌肉完全放鬆想要睡覺，應該是很好的肌肉放鬆劑吧呵！感覺身體好像快要漂走沒辦法控制，心裡是清楚的，腦袋轉著我不想要染上毒品，會不會這兩個男人Stue和Sid想要控制我們所以要拿菸草讓我們上癮，還是他們想要帶我們到海邊怎麼樣(我跟Marta剛好月經都來了，應該可以讓他們怯步吧!)想太多想太多，人家純粹想跟我們出去晃晃而已。真的下了決心，只要嘗試的不一樣的感覺就好了，抽那種菸草應該很傷喉嚨，之後跟他們混在一起的時候，抽個一口兩口意思意思就好。嗯今天又抽了三次，第一枝是Kea(一個美國小男生在我們旅館換宿一天)，第二枝是Sid的，第三枝是另一個曾在我們旅館工作過的智利女生Margalita之類的名字，之前大家都叫她Chile。這不節制哪行阿，不過這種讓身體尤其時喉嚨不舒服的事情，應該會讓自己保持清醒少抽吧！

今天是2007最後一天，早已忘了第一天在幹啥去了。去年最大事件是買了房子，似乎也該是定下來了。今年知道NZ有WHV這回事就打算送給自己29歲大禮，不過這也只是心裡在想，直到六月開始正式申請才意識到ㄟ…我真的要去流浪了。也確實出發了，卻到目前為止似乎還沒有漂泊的感覺，因為有另三個台灣小女生庇護著我，很多事情刀不需要去操心，只要想辦法讓自己融入她們就好囉！昨天決定要自己去Milford Track，算是一個人開始旅行最難的行前考驗吧！擔心自己會迷路、怕自己腳程太慢趕不上回程的船、怕黑…或者說怕自己一個人似乎就得不到任何支援，陪有認識的人就沒有人再你有困難或挫折的時候出現！Grown up Girl~ You’re going to 30! No Worry! 也不用想著說一個人就比較會有艷遇，只有爛桃花會出現吧，哈！Anyway, 既然決定了就硬著頭皮向前衝囉！乖乖的做功課，訓練體能！You can do it, lady~ 換個角度想，就是一個人才更容易交到新朋友囉！That’s the one of major reason for WHV in NZ, right!

Yesterday So-Jung came to “our home” to take a sketch of me because she ever mentioned to me she would like to do so. I was so flattered when she talked to me but I couldn’t ask her when to do. I was still very surprised when she really came to do what she ever promised to me. That would be my first time that someone said would like to drawn of me. Usually the drawing was paid for in my past experience. To be asked by somebody for sketch is really meant something to me because I would like to think that way: he or she likes me, or thinks I’m someone special and he, or has found something interested in me and would like to address what he or she has discover. Especially she is a designer for 2D advertisement therefore what she performed in my sketch is really different and saw in my deep heart I never discovered before.

Maybe, I just think too much. So-Jung is a purity girl who love to draw and everybody likes her because her innocence smile and she also likes everybody. I’m just the first one here to be drawn.

Anyway, I would rather to think it’s the prior which she really can see me through and find my “warm heart”.

Thank you, So-Jung, I’m really happy to be drawn by you~~ and I would like to make a T-shirt to have the drawing on it. That would be great~