台湾游 - 第一集 [花莲,我来了!] ~ Taiwan Travel - 1st Episod [Arrive At Hua Lian]

光阴似箭，忙碌的2007年， 终于在不知不觉中来到了五月份！因工作忙的关系，也没好好的准备这次的旅程，就在9日下午，匆匆的塔车到了KLIA, 直到飞机起飞前的一小时，我才知道我将要乘坐的飞机是华航。。。不过，因为这次的旅程，是慈济团体举办的，所以，大多数的旅程，师姑师伯们 （在慈济世界里，比我们大许多的长辈们，我们都称她们为师姑，或师伯），都已安排好了，实在太感恩他们的用心。

On 9th May 2007, me and my wife start our journey to Taiwan. It's really an excited journey as we did not prepare much before the departure date. All the planning and even the air tickets also prepared by our 'lovely parents'. In Tzu Chi world, we called those whom their age much elder than us as 'parents' as a sign of respect. No doubt, they are really take care of us. So, for this journey, I only get to know which company's plane I am going to take just 1 hour before the plane take off.

That day, we take off from KLIA at around 2:30pm and after approximately 4 hours flight, we finally reached Taipei airport. I really feel warm and happy when I saw there was a group of people already line up and welcome us at Taipei airport. Quickly we line up and group in a team and the buses has arrived. Without any further delay, we quickly went up to the bus and proceed to Taipei Raiway Station. We had our packed dinner in the bus along the journey to the raiway station. When we reached Taipei raiway station, it was already 9:30pm. (See the pictures).




This time, our destination is Hua Lian. According to our 'parents', we will have roughly 3 hours journey in the train and we were requested to take a nap and rest. When we reached Hua Lian, it's already passed 12am midnight and tonight, we will going to sleep at Huan Lian Jing Si Tang (花莲静思堂）. Tomorrow we need to wake up around 3:30am to walk into a place called 'Jing She' （精舍）to meet our master - Master Chen Yan (证严上人）. In other words, we only have less than 3 hours to sleep that night. So, immediately, we make our move to wash our face and brush teeth, exchange to sleep cloth (we have a set of sleeping cloth in Tzu Chi, we called them 'Luo Han Yi' ) and sleep straight away.

虽然已是深夜,当第一刻到达花莲的静思堂时,自己也按耐不住那兴奋的心情.在那刻,心想自己已到达了一个已经很靠近上人的地方,明天一早就可以看到上人了. 进到了静思堂里面,那环境是那么的熟悉,一切都是静思文化的摆设,一点都没有好像到了外国静思堂的感觉,非常安心.

以下是一些花莲静思堂的照片,先来让他家一睹为快!
Listed below is some of the photo taken from Hua Lian Jing Si Tang, let's take a look. :)

笑话分享

甲老师在批改英语作文，忽然大发雷霆：“我从来没看过这么烂的英语作文”

乙老师见状问：“写的是什么啊？”

甲老师：“写一个王子和公主的故事。”

“不错啊”乙说。 “他竟然在开头写王子问公主‘can you speak chinese?' 公主回答‘yes', 接下来的全部都是中文！”