新年快樂，總統大選即將到來，Ian 也不甘示弱的發表了一篇他的政見，請大家參考一下吧！Canada and Taiwan should be Sister Countries I think that Canada and Taiwan should be sister countries. Why is that? It is because other than food and language, Canada and Taiwan actually have a lot of things in common. Today I would like to bring these things to everyone’s attention.
Canada and Taiwan are international countries
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猜猜看，看起來高高瘦瘦的Ian喜歡看哪種運動比賽呢？"go tailgating"是什麼意思呢？這週Ian要介紹加拿大人最熱衷的比賽，我們一起來認識一些觀賞比賽會用到的單字片語吧！文章有點長，耐著性子讀完，保證你獲益良多！加油加油！！I’m sure that there are lots of people out there who love sports just as much as I do, maybe even more, so today I want to tell everyone a story about the greatest sporting event I have ever witnessed live.I was born in Montreal, and I lived there for the first 10 years of my life. In grade 5 my dad was transferred to a job in Kansas City, Kansas, so our family moved to the United States. At this time I was introduced to a new sport… football.etscriterion 發表在 痞客邦 留言(0) 人氣(113)
你愛台灣嗎？你知道我們住的地方有種魔力，能讓許多外國朋友千里迢迢的跑到台灣！
猜猜看是什麼原因，讓Ian愛上台灣，快點來看看這篇文章！
What is one reason that every foreigner loves living in Taiwan ? It’s one of the same reasons Taiwanese people love living in Taiwan . We love to eat Taiwanese food.
In Canada we rarely go out for dinner because it is not very convenient. It is also very expensive unless you want to eat McDonald’s every day. They made a movie, “Super-size Me”, about eating McDonald’s every day, and it doesn’t look very healthy. (They put a McDonald’s advertisement in our elevator, but to be honest I haven’t seen one person from our company buy it!)
However, in Taiwan you can eat out every day, and it’s not too expensive or unhealthy. In fact, I have not cooked a meal since I moved to Taiwan 11 months ago. I eat out every day for breakfast, lunch, and dinner!
A lot of the time I eat at restaurants around my office because that is where I spend most of my time. In the morning I love to visit the 蛋餅 and 豆漿 (soybean milk) shop just outside of 大安 station. I usually get the same thing all the time: 2 蛋餅 and a glass of warm soybean milk.
There’s also a nice lady who sells fruit and vegetarian sandwiches. She says “Good morning” to me every time I walk past.
Lunch and dinner are a little more exciting. For lunch there are so many good places to eat around the office. One of my favorite places is just beyond the breakfast store I visit most mornings. We call it “The Red Brick Place” because the walls at the front of the store are all made of red brick, but I think the real name of the store is Formosa Chiang (鬍鬚張)….. I think. They have the best 滷肉飯, and they also have really good soups. I like the pork-bitter melon soup the best.
There’s also another really good place called Long Hua. It’s not actually a Taiwanese restaurant, but it is still really good. They sell
Hong Kong style meat, and not only is it delicious, they also give you huge portions.
Sometimes foreigners have to go out and get some Western, so Riana and I might go to ‘Bear and Two Friends’ for some Italian food. This place has a really nice atmosphere and because Riana and I are the ‘Two Friends’, we have to stop in one in a while.
After a good meal you always need a good desert. Café 85 is an excellent coffee shop that reminds me of Tim Horton’s back in Canada , but a more Taiwanese alternative is Dou Hua. I love Dou Hua. I always get an extra serving of peanuts, red beans, green beans and barley. It’s good to know that you can have desert and be healthy at the same time.
Of course there are also the night markets. We don’t have anything like them in Canada , so I really like the way I can buy a little of everything and it’s not expensive at all. I went to one night market around Chinese New Year and I couldn’t believe how many people were there. Can you guess which night market it was?
All in all, the food is definitely a huge benefit of living in Taiwan . I am going to have to start my own hot pot restaurant in Canada when I go home so I won’t miss out while I’m gone.
看完Ian介紹的食物，肚子是不是也餓了呢？
偷偷告訴你「兩個朋友一隻熊」可是BBS美食版推薦的餐廳唷！
快去吃吃看吧！地址是台北市大安區信義路4段30巷50弄3號1樓，
說不定你會遇到Ian正在裡面享受美食喔！
Tim Horton’s 是加拿大一家聯鎖店，裡面賣很多好吃的甜甜圈(Donuts)，
最有名的就是Timbits，有機會去加拿大，一定不要錯過喔！
品嚐完美食，也不要忘記複習單字唷！
rarely 很少
advertisement 廣告
meal 餐
soybean 黃豆(不是yellow bean喔！)
vegetarian 素食
portion 一客/一份(食物)
Western 西式的(大寫)
atmosphere 氣氛
alternative 選擇
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你有養狗嗎？Ian在加拿大有養一隻狗，他的狗Mickey頂多只在家附近走走。但是Ian來到台灣後，發現台灣的狗兒們居然會坐上主人的機車四處跑，這點讓Ian感到非常不可思議！
My dog's name is Mickey. He is truly an awesome dog, I think perhaps the coolest dog ever.
Mickey was always a smart dog. He learned how to understand our words, so if we said the word 'walk', he would get really excited because he thought he was going for a walk. We started to speak out the letters of the word, like this 'W - A - L - K', instead of saying the word, but he learned how to spell the word too.
When Mickey got older, he didn't like to walk very much, so we would encourage him to go outside by giving him a cookie every time he came in from out to the bathroom. He caught on to this pattern pretty fast.
He would bark to go outside, and when we let him out he would just stand on the porch. Then he would bark to come back in after 20 seconds and he would walk directly to the cookie cupboard and stand there and bark for a cookie.
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大家應該都發現了，Ian很少在部落格放他的照片，因為他沒有數位相機。
但是今天Ian特地請他的媽媽找出他小時候的照片，要與你分享他以前所做過的瘋狂事蹟！
Hey everyone,
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I'm really excited this week because I have a good story to tell. I fought in a war as a soldier this Sunday, and I was killed in battle 4 times.
My coworkers Paul and Winston took me out to play war games on Sunday. A group of friends get together every weekend and go to play in different areas around Taipei. I didn't have a gun, but Paul has a few in his collection, so he lent me one.
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你知道嗎？來自北美洲加拿大的Ian居然會怕冷！
其實Ian也不是怕冷，只是在台灣炎熱的天氣型態下，冷氣房的溫度時常與戶外溫差過大，因此進到百貨公司或電影院時，常常讓人有瞬間溫度下降，冷到受不了的感覺。來看看Ian怎麼說吧
I have lived in Taipei for 6 months now, and one thing I’ve noticed is that the weather is really hot, but hotels, department stores, and movie theaters are really cold.
The more expensive and high class a department store or hotel gets, the colder they set the temperature. In the summer, it is really refreshing when you walk past a department store and the doors open, allowing the cold air to blow out from inside the store. It’s like air conditioning for the sidewalk. Maybe department stores set their temperatures low to make customers cold so they’ll buy clothes, but when I get cold, I just leave.
Movie theaters are cold here too, but when you go to the theater, you can’t leave until the movie is over. When I went to see a movie for the first time in Taipei , my Japanese co-worker decided to buy a sweater before the movie started. He was raised in Taipei and went to the Taipei American School , so he knew about the cold movie theaters. I said I didn’t need a sweater or jacket because I’m Canadian and can handle the cold. By the end of the movie, I was freezing.
I always wonder if 7-11 is considered a high class variety (convenience) store, because I find it is really cold too. When American people visit a Taiwanese gas station they are surprised by two things.
1) There are no gas pumps at Taiwanese 7-11s (all American stores are gas stations).
2) They're FREEZING.
From now on, I know that if I’m going to a movie or a department store in Taipei , I have to bring a sweater or a jacket. I get cold in these two places even though I was raised in Canadian winters.
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Ian高中的時後在加拿大和朋友們一起組了一個樂團，還製作了一張CD。你可以點選下方的連結網址欣賞一下他的作品給他一些回應喔！
When I was in grade 10, I moved from Kansas in the United States to London, Ontario, Canada. Not London England. We get more snow in London, Ontario.
It was hard moving in grade 10 because everyone had already started high school and made new friends, and I had to start all over again at a new school.
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你在喜歡的人面前會有什麼樣的表現呢？是害羞、故做鎮定、還是耍帥呢？
Ian在認識她的第一個女朋友前，以耍帥的方式想要吸引女生的注意，沒想到卻意外受了傷，讓自己看起來很狼狽....
不過這個意外卻的確促成了Ian和他喜歡的女生Sarah交往！
今天Ian要與你分享這則有趣的小故事。
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Ian還有Riana都非常喜歡吃台灣菜，今天Ian要跟你分享他平常常吃的東西，如果你也在大安捷運站附近，可以去試試看Ian介紹的餐廳，或許下次你在用餐時也會遇到我們，別忘了跟我們打招呼喔！
Hey,
Canadian people are proud of our hockey teams, because we're the best! Taiwanese people are very proud about their food, and I understand why. It's amazing. I eat Chinese food every day. I rarely eat Western food anymore, and I don't miss it either. Sometimes I go to McDonald's, but I always feel strange when I'm there. I feel like I'm reinforcing the stereotype that Americans only eat hamburgers (even though I'm Canadian, people always think I'm American).
I go out for lunch every day, so people from my office show me good places to eat. I want to show everyone some of these places, and if you are around 大安 you can find one of the better places to eat.
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