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First day of internship, I rushed to the office right after my front desk duty. I was lucky and I arrived at the office at 5 to 10. Today happened to be the day of staff meeting too; hence, I am asked to join the staff meeting and I could meet everyone in the Institute for Multi-Track Diplomacy.

I have to admit that I learned many things during the meeting. First of all, after introducing myself to the others, a guy from Liberia challenged me with Taiwanese diplomacy. He asserted that Taiwan does not support the democratic government. Taiwan supported the strong man government and the dictatorship. Taiwan did not take care of people; Taiwan only pays attention to the president or the minister of foreign affairs, which I strongly doubt. On the contrary, China reaches to people here and monitors the projects that it promised to Liberia. China goes to the field. I argued that Taiwan does have its medical team and agriculture team out there, but I cannot help but wonder whether Taiwan is really a loser and a bad diplomat. How can Taiwan lose its friends to China? There must be reasons but Taiwan does not admit. How does Taiwan view the diplomacy? I think it is the core question.

Secondly, I learned about news and conferences in other regions. I am in charge of North East Asia. Other people take Caucasian area and Africa in charge. Some of the interns are focusing on Africa; I am not familiar with Africa. Hence, I learned a lot. An intern from Chad talked about his project on Equatorial Guinea. It is a Spanish speaking country. We talked about the language and the infrastructure of that country. Another intern from Haiti talked about a conference that she attended; the conference was about North-East Congo. The phenomenon that she mentioned was really interesting.

August 28, 2007 @DC

我現在在櫃檯當接待，要值班到早上九點，本來九點半又有一個一小時的班，可是我不能做這個shift，等一下九點要立刻趕去實習的地方，今天是上班的第一天呢，對今天有種小小期待，希望會是一個很愉快的環境。

剛回來就面臨Naomi直美小姐要回去日本的事情，不只是她，其他三個朋友也要回國（Danny、韓國大哥還有韓國男生），直美跟我是一起到宿舍的，累積兩年的革命情感，對我來說，她的離去比別人的讓我難受。星期五一回去就幫直美打包（其實是我在她那邊玩的比較多），星期六我們一群同時間住進來的人一起去茶樓飲茶，後來去一個韓國漂亮姐姐家裡泡咖啡聊天，我想到以後不會有這種機會跟直美這樣消磨時間，其實很感傷。直美等一下的飛機，雖然日本台灣很近，但是我也不知道什麼時候會聚在一起？（也許要等她跟Danny結婚吧，哈哈！）

July 20, 2007 09:34
DCA--->Detroit 西北航空 NW 227

July 20, 2007 15:40
Detroit--->Osaka Kansai 西北航空 NW 69

Liang跟我說 現在剛好是12th Annual Made in Hong Kong Film Festival
正在Smithsonian舉行

星期五晚上七點 Freer, Meyer Auditorium
又可以看免費的無間道了

剛好看到一個活動 跟大家分享一下

Kenilworth Park and Aquatic Gardens這個禮拜六有活動
是一年一度的蓮花節慶
剛好七月二十一日是蓮花的高峰期 最盛開的時間
所以當天會有導覽還有很多活動

昨天在寫McKinsey的履歷的時候，他們問的一個問題是，「講講你是怎麼樣的人？」我覺得很有趣，所以把我寫的東西貼上來。


I am the eldest child in my family and I have always been asked to be independent and be a role model for my younger brother. I am from Taitung, one of the smallest cities in Taiwan, and I left my hometown for Taipei, the capital, when I was 15. I was studying in the best girls’ high school, Taipei First Girls’ High School. It was the first tough challenge in my life. I have to live without my family and I lived alone, trying to take care of myself. There were a lot of difficulties and I got Hyperthyroid when I was in the first year of high school. My teacher told me that maybe I was not made for that high school, but I did not withdraw from the school. I took a year of rest to control my ailment and work on my English in Oxford. I came back to school a year later and I was the top student in my high school. Hence, throughout my studies and my path of life till now, I believe that hard work and determination can overcome a lot of difficulties.

le 15 juillet 2007

讀諾貝爾文學獎得主的書有時候是一個考驗，考驗我抽象思考的能力，但是有時候卻是種快樂體驗，讀好書的感覺就是讓我開心得不得了。讀Orhan Pamuk的【雪】（Snow）的時候，我常常有種停滯不前的感覺，Pamuk營造故事的功力或是他的風格讓我覺得有點冗長。但是，當我翻到了科慈（J. M. Coetzee）的【屈辱】（Disgrace）的時候，科慈一掃Pamuk的沉重裝飾，營造出另一種強烈但是像是雪地一樣清冷的氣氛。

科慈成功地告訴我一個教授的故事，第一章就非常有震撼力地道出教授對於性的喜好以及衝動，告訴我教授召妓的故事還有他的感受，在中文版裡面相當撩人的筆調，不過在英文版裡面科慈擁有一種神奇的力量，他可以用很簡潔的文字創造出深刻的情感，當他描寫教授對女學生的細微感受的時候，我沒有辦法不感到害羞，但是顫抖的手還是忍不住翻下一頁。

一個人被剝奪到幾乎一無所有之後，他的人生會有什麼轉變呢？教授因為女學生的事情而辭職，中年失業而且聲名狼藉的他去鄉下找女兒，本來只是想度假，但是卻留了下來，本來只想留一陣子，卻因為一場襲擊讓他決定要留下來「保護」女兒，當大家都叫他走的時候：「你在這裡幫不上忙的」，他卻想留下來，可是他到底能做什麼呢？在每個時刻，教授心裡都有很多思索，關於人生、文學、親情跟愛情，關於慾望也關於對困境還有人的性格。

I went to watch the latest Harry Potter yesterday night with Naomi and Leonel. Leonel is from Venezuela; you met him before. I like Harry Potter very much and I enjoyed the movie although the movie is a bit too quick. The movie is too short and forgets to treat a lot of important details in the book. However, it is still a good movie.

Do you like Harry Potter? What do you think of it?

I am going to a camping trip during this weekend. We will go to Cape Henlopen. It is in Delaware. I have never been to a camping trip after middle school. I am quite excited about the trip but I don't think I will want to sunbathe. Haha, I cannot be more suntanned. (I am very tanned already. )