London, ON - Ilena

換了一家hostel…六個人一間的dorm room，
房間裡除了有一位漂亮的智利女生外，還有個婦人，加拿大人，年約六十多歲。

第一個晚上，我們就聊了近二個小時。
她叫ilena，伊蓮娜。
一個北美外表的婦人，內心卻擁有一個墨西哥的靈魂。

in 2 hours talking, 有30%的內容一直在說墨西哥的美好。
1) 音樂<<<<佔大多數
2) 消費
3) 熱情
4) 語言 - 西班牙語
I said : Maybe you can move to there.
Ilena : I bought a house in Mexico 5 years ago. Because I love Mexico, but I don't go there often.

And I said to her : When you talk about Mexico, you seem in the heaven. I see the flower and angles around you.
因為Ilena，只要提及墨西哥，像是被打開了一個按鈕，笑容、喜悅、幸福全寫在臉上。


因為Ilena 已是一個已婚婦女，所以我問了他一些美式家庭的一些問題…以解開我心中的疑惑。
(對，這趟旅行，似乎是來解開我自己對自己的疑惑或是大家的)

Q : depend on your experience or others around you, western parents encourage their children to go outside or different counties, to see the world, culture, meet some people and learn the life skills?
(以妳的經驗或是身邊朋友的，是不是西方的父母比較會鼓勵小孩多出去看世界、文化，認識新朋友及學習生活技能?)
A : most, but depend on my experience, I don't like that. If they were teen age then leave home, and need somebody's suggestions or opinions, who can help them?
(大多數，就我來說…我不喜歡這樣，如果小孩還小就離開家，若他們需要其他人的意見或想法時，誰能幫他們?)
If they met some bad people, and smoking, drinking, pills, drug and having tattoo. What they learn about?
(如果他們遇到了不好的人，抽煙、喝酒、藥物、吸毒或刺青，他們會學到什麼?)


Q : you have two sons, one in north of Toronto and one in Vancouver.  How often do you meet together?
you can accept they leave home far away?
(妳有二個兒子，一個在多倫多北部，一個在溫哥華，你們多久會聚在一起? 你可以接受他們離家這麼遠?)
A : I don't, but if they got a better job there, they should go there.
(我不希望，但如果他們在那邊可以有更好的工作，他們就該過去)


Q : you know, some times the life is hard, what did you do and now you can go traveling anywhere?
(有時後，生活不容易，你做了什麼所以現在可以到處旅行? )
A : I don't watch TV, see the movies, smoking.....those cost a lot of money.
I love music, Mexico and Spanish, that's why I want to learn speaking Spanish.... (離題了)
(我不看電視，看電影，抽煙…那些很花錢的東西)




I think she likes talking, because... she can talks about Mexico and Spanish long long long time.
不過，有時我要問的問題，她會有點答非所問…
至少有解決我心中一些疑問…我會再慢慢去累積我要的答案的。


There was a story between Ilena and us.
One day, we went out for whole day, so we'd like to use computer and check the E-Mail and job seeking before we went to sleep.
( it's gonna be 11: 30 pm I remember.)
Chin and I still used the computer, so the light on and have some noise from keyboard.
And Ilena asked me " Carol, may I ask you a question?   in Taiwan, What time do you go to the bed? and what's your wake up time? "
I : depends, go to the bed at 12 or 1 o'clock, and wake up at 7 or 8 o'clock.
If you worry about somethings and have pressure, can't fall asleep.
$^(&)*&_(*)()+(_)(
Ilena said : Normally, Canadians go to the bed before 11 o'clock, and wake up at 7 or 8 o'clock, so we can have fully 8 hours sleep.


其實，我們知道她在提醒我們該關燈睡覺了。只不過…真的很擔心工作的事…就會想要晚上用網路找工作、投履歷，白天再上街去丟履歷。

我們立馬就關燈睡覺去了……