溫哥華島兩日遊

星期三的時候，我，哥哥，媽媽，家麒，嬸嬸，和叔叔一早就到Sheraton Hotel 去集合。 我們這一團有24 個人而我們導遊叫Vivi Lee，她開著車帶我們去Horsehore Bay 坐船。我們坐的是一艘很大的遊艇(BC Ferry)。船上有很多販賣機，咖啡店和禮品店。當你到船外面的時候，就可以看到許多小島和美麗的太平洋。過了一個小時又三十五分鐘，我們終於到溫哥華島(Vancouver Island)了!

到了島上，導遊就帶我們去溫哥華島的第二大城市~Nanaimo。那裡的風景很漂亮，剛好也沒下雨所以天空上的白雲也慢慢的飄過來，飄過去。我們只停了一下下就要出發到Chemainus 去看壁畫。那裡的建築物上幅幅的壁畫。其中最有名的是三個印地安人的那幅，表現出以前印地安人的生活。

接下來我們就去Duncan City看圖騰柱(Totem Pole)。聽說那些圖騰柱是從各個村落找來的。Duncan City 的街上又好多不同的圖騰柱，每根圖騰柱都有很精緻的圖畫。在市政府的旁邊就是全世界最大的圖騰柱。我想那棵樹一定很大!

到了四點，我們就開到美麗的布查花園(Butchart Garden)。裡面真的很大。有日本花園，義大利花園，玫瑰花園……尤其是玫瑰花園，裡面的玫瑰有好幾十種，五彩繽紛。最後還有一隻神豬的銅像!傳說你如果摸摸神豬的鼻子然後許個願望，它就會實現! 逛了兩個小時後大家都很累，於是我們就回飯店。飯店裡有養一隻狗，牠長得很像安可小時候，超可愛的!!可能是我很累吧，因為飯店的床真的超舒服的!

隔天早上我們六點多就起床準備出發去餵海豹。那裡的海豹是野生的，嬸嬸拍了很多可愛的照片，後來又有兩隻海豹遊過來。餵完海豹大家就坐小輪船到鹽泉島(Saltspring Island)。那裡有一個很漂亮的薰衣草花園，但是其時還蠻小的。那裡有賣薰衣草香皂，薰衣草乳液等等的東西，但我覺的最特別的是薰衣草冰淇淋。薰衣草冰淇淋酸酸甜甜的還有薰衣草在裡頭。

去完薰衣草花園我們就到Saltspring Island的市中心逛一逛。Saltspring Island的市中心有很多藝術店，每間店都非常有特色。時光飛逝，才過了一會兒，就要回家了。在溫哥華島時我真的玩得很開心，這短短的兩天讓我永生難忘!~~~

BBQ (Justin)

Today, me and Allan’s family had a BBQ lunch in our backyard. At 10:00 AM I was starving, waiting desperately for Allan’s family to come over. After one long hour of waiting, the doorbell finally rang.



I was overwhelmed, so I ran and opened the door excitedly. Like I expected, I saw Allan’s family standing in front of the door holding tons of meat for BBQ. Me and Aaron went to the backyard and set up the pans so we can eat earlier.

First, we took the kabobs on to the BBQ pan; I was latterly drooling when I heard the sizzling sound the meat make on the pan. When the kabobs are ready, Allan, Aaron and I finished in a split second. One juicy kabob obviously didn’t satisfy us, so we ate about 5 kabobs.
Then, it’s the beef’s turn! We put the beef on the pan; it was sizzling louder than the kabob! When it was half cooked, we added some salt and pepper the make it taste even better.
After a few minutes, the beef is finally ready. The three of us grab the biggest piece and start attacking on the super juicy beef. We got satisfied by eating about 6 of them. I was pretty full, but I figured that I could eat some more food so I drank about 4 cups of iced tea. My stomach was exploding!

After eating, I decided to burn some calories from the BBQ mean, so I went outside and play basketball for about 30 minutes. That wasn’t enough; I also did my workout routine. Overall, I had a great day, I wish we could do the BBQ lunch again in the summer.

Whistler (Justin)

Whistler

It has been an exciting week. Recently, my Aunt, uncle, and cousin came to visit us from Taiwan. We went to a lot of places such as, Grandville Island, Holland Park, and Whistler. I think Whistler was the best of all, we had loads of fun.


We planned to leave at 9:30 AM, but the travel agent called right when we were about to leave. My mom and the travel agent talked for about 1 hour about our trip to Butchart Garden, Victoria, so we left at 10:30 instead. The two hour car ride was long and painful; I sat in the back with my cousin. There is barely room for my legs to stretch. We stopped by A&W for lunch; the calories and fat of the food was OFF THE CHART, I regret eating those junk food.

Anyways, we arrived Whistler at about 1:00 o’clock. The first thing I saw was TONS of sweet mountain bikes with disk brakes. We decided to split up and go to different shops and meet up at the bench in front of Starbucks at 5:30. We went to countless shops, three of the best shops are, Lids, Cows Ice cream Shop, and a bike shop. There are a lot of awesome, yet expensive hats at Lids. I saw a hat that could also be used as a toque; unfortunately, it was 50.00 dollars so I couldn’t buy it. Next, we went to Cows Ice Cream Shop to eat some ice cream since it was so hot outside. Suddenly, I thought about all the calories ice cream have. I changed my mind. My sister bought 2 scoops of strawberry ice cream so I took a little bite out of it, it tasted pretty good but not as good as I thought. Lastly, I went into a bike shop full of awesome bikes. The bikes were so expensive; the sale price of a bike was 1000 dollars, no joke!

It was time to leave; we met up with my aunt uncle and cousin and headed to the parking lot. The trip home was tiring and long, it seems to take forever. At 9:00, we finally got home; I jumped on to the bed and fell asleep quickly. I had a great day at Whistler, I hope I can go there again some days

斯坦福大學開的這門課-- 女人的女朋友

(文章轉載)

前幾天一位好友Email給我一篇很有趣的文章［斯坦福大學開的這門課］(They Teach It at Stanford)。
於是翻譯如下，和朋友們一起分享。
我剛剛上完在斯坦福大學的一門晚上開的課。

課堂上最後一個講座是關於身心連接（Mind-Body Connection），壓力與疾病的關係。

這位教授是斯坦福大學的精神病學主治，他說，對一個男人的身體健康來說，最好的事情之一，就是結婚，有一個家庭。而對於一個女人的身體健康來說，最好的事情之一，卻是她應該建立和培養她和女友之間的友誼關係。

剛開始聽到教授如此說，每個人都笑了，但教授是認真的！

女人和女人之間有著不同的互動關係，她們互相提供支持，幫助對方應對壓力和生活中的困難體驗。高品質的＂女友的時間＂（Girl friend Time）可以幫助她們創造更多的血清素，一種神經遞質，而有助於防治抑鬱症，並能給女人創造一個良好的自我感覺。

而男性之間的關係往往是建立在活動/事件（Activities）基楚上的。男人很少會坐下來與好友聊天，他們幾乎不會去聊自己對某些事物或私人生活的感受。談論工作嗎？可以；體育嗎？當然；汽車嗎？是的；釣魚、打獵、打高爾夫嗎？也樂意。但談論他們的感情感受？恐怕很少！

而女人總是在交流感情，探討感受的。她們和她們的姐妹/母親分享自己的靈魂，顯然這對女人的身體健康非常好。教授還說，其實對於女人來說，花點時間和女朋友一起交心，是和跑步或在健身房中鍛煉一樣重要的。

人們往往有一種思維傾向，那就是認為當我們在鍛煉時，是做了對自己身體全然有益的事；而當我們和朋友在一起消磨時光時，我們是在浪費自己的時間，我們應該從事比這更有效率的事。事實上，這是不正確的想法。教授說，不能建立和保持與其他人高品質的人際關係，其實是和我們吸煙一樣，對身體健康有著極大危害的！
所以當你每一次和女朋友在一起＂閒聊＂或＂消磨時光＂時，請你拍拍自己的肩膀，祝賀自己為著身體健康做了一件好事吧！有女朋友交心，我們其實非常非常的幸運。

讓我們舉杯慶祝自己與女朋友的友誼吧，這也是為了我們的身體健康！

ps.感謝好友 Julie C. email 分享