[ 夢土上 ]

我將你設置，在畫境之中
街道像飄帶，白色的飄帶一樣
深入烟靄，深入綺夢
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二十里長，在傍海的小鎮
我們可以不倦地走完
路的涯岸是冰柱，夏天凝凍在此
你化為透明的森林
每片新葉說著芬芳的話語
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你諳悉這境域，我心是白極
二十里的街道，可以收穫你的步音
芬芳的
那一朵白花，一朵白花，一朵白花

The Gadabout Traveling Film Festival
I attended a traveling film festival last night, in a little soccer course near the campus with two guys...my friend Keigo, a Kyoto boy who was a drummer in Japan, and my roommate Fil, a rock music guitarist. There were 6 bands played music until 9, then more than 20 creative films were showed as a roll. This festival was founded by one of the guitarists in those bands, and he is my roommate Fil's friend.
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It was really a small activity. In this community soccer course, there were only two tables with their CDs and T-shirts, one household stand lamp as a spotlight, 4 old speakers, and a piece of canvas hanging on the frame of a soccer goal as a screen. However, the music was good, and films were amazing!! Awesome!!! It is too difficult to tell you how great they were, but I think most of films in this “gadabout” film festival were even more interesting than those films in some official festivals in Taipei. In these three months, these rock music musicians are going to travel through more than 10 states in America by their old trucks. They will play their music, show their films, and make friends with people all around this country! Wow! So cool! I want to go with them > <
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It is about 10°C in late night now. The temperature was going down again in these two days. Last night, I sat behind a boy and a girl. They sat on their quilt and hugged each other when the cold wind blowing through the soccer course. I can’t help watching them…so enviable!! Meow~~

Yesterday, my friend Catgreen wrote an article about me on her blog, and many of my friends also sent their good wishes to me. I have quizes tomorrow and a report on Tuesday, so I prepared them in the library today. The Autumn Festival has gone, but I have to say...I really really miss you and love you all.
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Wanted!!
Could anybody take a beautiful and detailed moon cake picture for me?
I am really really missing moon cakes~~
If you have one, please sent to my email box:
strwang@yahoo.com.tw
Thanx > <...
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The Mid-Autumn Festival is coming. I've been seeing some moon cake ads on the Internet. They really make me homesick. There are also some cake companies in NYC, which have delivery service. However~~the prices are so expensive~~~ Including delivery fee, I might have to pay more than $30 dollars to get 10 little salty egg moon cakes. Hooh~~~Moooon caaaake > ___ <
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I went to an art history lecture class to be an auditor this Monday evening. The name of the class is INTRO VISUAL ART. The class takes three hours in a cold and dark lecture classroom. I have to say, it is definite a boring class and the English is also very hard for me. Fortunately I have taken some art history class in university, so I can somewhat understand what the professor was talking about. A Taiwanese girl who went to the class with me almost fell asleep. She escaped in the break......
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Anyway, let's wait and see~It was just the first class.

翻開這頁次，以時間的纖指
那面容將走過，而塵埃將展微小的翅
飛起，在記憶之上，在懷念之上
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黃昏總不轉暗，總漸漸透明
總從六時三十分亮起
那面容走過，影子是一束喜悅
那面容走過，跫音很輕
　　翻過這頁吧，塵埃飛起
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而這些是你的。命運那黑臉的婦人
也將被翻過去
而塵埃飛起，在憂悒之上，在牽掛之上

I moved up from Intermediate Level to Advanced Level yesterday. New classmates' English ability in the new level are much better than the level which I was, but most of them are still not active and diligent in learning enough. I am a bit confused that why I was in the lower level. Anyway, I moved up, and I bought my textbook yesterday. Ahhhh...how expensive they are>_<
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I study in the library almost every night after dinner. The library here is small but quiet because there are always few students. I can't study in my room because my neighbors play Hip Hop and dance music loudly every night. Recently, they even began singing on the hallway... I meet many friends in the library. Most of them are hard studying Asian students. One of them is a Korean who is a Fine Arts graduate student here. He is much elder than me, has a graduate degree and some university teaching experience in Korea. I met him in the library yesterday. We talked more than one and a half hour in the main lounge. He did traditional painting in Korea. Now, he makes some multi-material art work.
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He told to me, if he were as young as me, he wouldn't study in New Paltz. He would keep on trying until he could enter an art school in New York City. He always feels his time is not enough because his family is waiting for him. He said, we artists always need to throw ourselves into a group or a society to agitate each other, and this is what New Paltz lacks for. Yeah! We have to keep on moving and being challenged.
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He is a lonely artist. What he learned in Korea for 20 years is traditional Korean art. Now, new artists and arts pop up everywhere. He is working hard to rebuild his art to catch up the wave of art in the world. He rarely talks to other Korean students because he has to improve his English as soon as possible. After he finish his studying here and come back to Korea, he might still have many problems to get a job in an university because there are so many old professors don't want to retire and so many people are still waiting on the line. Maybe the environment of art in Korea is worse than Taiwan. He said, his professor in Korea even required them to follow "his style", and each professor has his own style and his "followers." He told me that sometimes he thinks he is on a wrong way in his life.
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I have seen his art before. I think his art is somehow has love and happiness inside, but his is not a happy artist. How about me? How do I look like? I really reflect about this.

Fall is coming. My birthday is coming.
I took a long long nap this afternoon. Outside of the window, there are sunshine, breath, and it is a relaxed Friday afternoon.
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The weather is getting colder every day, trees are changing their color, and more and more leaves are flaying in the air...I am really looking forward to fall and winter in New Paltz. All the trees might be red as fire, no clouds in the sky. When the last leaf leaves its branch, it's the snows.
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I know more and more people now. Some Japanese, some Korean, some of them came from Latin America and I have the first friend who was from Africa. Of course there are a lot of American, and I also have some Taiwanese and Chinese friends here.
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Sometimes I feel lonely, but this is the way that I chose. I'll be strong and do well.
Happy Birthday to Me~~