Farewell, Sabrina, my Germany friend.

Yesterday (Sep, 28, 2005), a friend came from Germany will leave Taiwan back home. It was a strange story to have this friendship; cause the process was so amazing.

Sep, 20, 2005 (I guess), about 0:20, my home phone ringed. It means there got something emergence. As I thought, my friend told me that there was a foreigner asking the way to Tucheng (土城), but my friend who worked in National Petroleum Corporation (全國加油站撫遠站, see the photo at right) near my house cannot have a good conversation with her in English. So my friend asked me to go there to be a translator. It was so interesting beginning, wasn’t it.

When I arrive there, I saw a girl who rode a motorcycle talked with other attendants at the corner (see the photo below right). I was so surprised that it was almost midnight, and somebody who cannot speak any Chinese stood at the gas station near Sec. 5, Minsheng E. Rd. (民生東路五段), Taipei City, and asked the way to Tucheng, far away form here. How uncommon it was.

She told me that she wanted to go to Hsimending (西門町) for sightseeing, than she rode to Chiang Kai-Shec memorial hall (中正紀念堂) and Taipei101 (台北101). At the end, she arrived here, and lost her way home. What ? By a Chinese map book, she wanted to find the road. And she just learned Chinese about five days; she told me that she only discriminated the Chinese letters like “中山”, etc.

Ok, I thought it was a impossible and important mission to be a translator between her and my friend, he knew the way. After muddledom, in brief, she got the way to destination. When we got time out, she told me her name “Sabrina”, an exchange student of Foxconn Electronics Inc. (鴻海精密), came form Germany, etc. In the end of this story, we exchanged some information, like accounts of MSN messenger and email address. She found the way, and I had a new friend in the world.

Yesterday, she had a farewell party home and invited me to join them. I was so happy to do so; even the way to Tucheng was so far. Because it was first time for me to go to Tucheng, I also did the same way which I lost my way there; it was so difficult to find the road she live at in Tucheng. But I felt so sorry because our promissory time was 19:30, I was late when I arrived there in 20:40. In that party, I met some people who engaged in another area and had fun there. It was so pity that happy time was always so short that I didn't have enough time to talk to each other, to drink and eat much. Briefly, it was an amazing experience for me and the members in the party, I believed.

In the end, I am afraid that I have to write my blog in English, cause she told me that she would read some article here and write some comment. So, if you need to read my article but have some language problem, you could write comment to tell me, too. I will translate my main point in Chinese for you, my dear friends.

And farewell, dear Sabrina. I don't know what imagine of Taiwan in your mind, maybe was more and more scooters here, the always bad traffic, or the funny experience to ask the way home in the filling station in the midnight, but you've really got some sincere friends here, you know. Maybe some day in the future, you will miss the Taiwan beer, again. Ha, Ha. God bless you at all.

In the photo, there are my friend working in the gas station and me.