一隻肉球在翻滾

如題, 沒有更貼切的形容了!

還是牠

笨得有夠可愛!

真可愛

看起來很搞笑對吧?! 實際上它真的在搞笑玩耍....

倒掛的熊貓

我們本來還以為他是無支撐自己才滑下去的, 搞了半天原來是因為他自己好動愛玩.....

熊貓吃竹子

實在是真可愛

熊貓

這兩隻雄貓很有趣, 一前一後相互輝映, 前面那隻正在滾, 後面那隻則從頭到尾都笨笨地趴在那根樹枝上面休息, 我們這天來本來想說能看到雄貓就很開心了, 結果前面那隻大約滾來滾去玩來玩去了近半小時吧, 聽工作人員說他也很難得那麼愛玩, 平常頂多就是休息跟吃東西而已, 我們今天真是值回票價呢! (BTW, Smithsonian的展館全都免費啦)

EMU

Emu是個很像鴕鳥的動物, 牠很誇張喔, 遠遠地看到我拿起相機, 就主動地跑到欄干旁邊擺起姿勢, 你瞧瞧, 他很自豪的ㄌㄟ...這樣也好, 省得我們又要到處追逐找好位置, 不過牠又不像孔雀一樣會開屏, 一直站在那邊也沒有什麼過人的可愛之處, 很快地就失去了我的興趣了...

Chita

Chita好像頑皮豹, 不知道是因為人圈養的關係, 這隻豹看起來亂沒殺傷力的, 還被我拍到正在打呵欠說....有趣的是, 旁邊一欄關的竟然是斑馬, 或許是因為這樣的關係吧, 豹兒永遠看得到獵物, 所以也降低牠追逐獵物的興趣...靜靜地躺在草地上睡午覺...實在太爽了!

Annapolis City

Annapolis是Maryland州的首府, 這個地方跟Alexandria很像, 而且都有一個特色---白人超多, 跟我住的地方不同, 這個城市就比較有味道, 走在路上的人們氣質看起來也比較不一樣, 我們要來這裡的路上, 從橋上看河岸景色可真是非常地優美, 尤其是Bay Bridge(跨過Chesapeake Bay), 如果是黃昏來那更是超美. 本來想說可以看看船啊河啊, 結果碰到他們的Boat Show, 把整個港都封住了, 重點是那個Show要價16.50美元, 真狠! 那個show的目的是賣船, 竟然連要買船都要交入場費, 可憐我們這些窮學生連想偷看一下有錢人怎麼爽都沒法子, 看來還是乖乖地去買彩卷吧!

Jiun-Yun

Alexandria 河港

我有一個室友, 常常跑去Virginia玩耍, 害得我跟Amy都一直很想去, 終於在何宗憲的引介下跑到這個港市---Alexandria. 這裡以前是個商港口, 現在變成私人渡假的港口, 而這條河是Potomac river---華盛頓特區所濱臨的河, Alexandria旅遊書上寫著---沒有Potomac River, 就沒有Alexandria City, 果真有河就有文明, 這點在地球上可真是通行無阻啊! 我們到的這一天是星期五, 所以黃昏時就已經有人開始來這裡玩弄他們的寶貝遊艇了, 我偷偷地在看美國人在遊艇上做什麼, 結果得到跟我在希臘玩時一樣的結論---歐美人真是愛念書, 日光浴時要念書, 在遊艇上要念書, 是那麼無聊喔, 我整天都在家裡寫功課, 閒書到是好久沒空看了說.....不過美國人還真是懂得享受, 看來我也要好好地融入一下他們這樣的生活態度, 重新拿起我的F1跟Football來研究研究....

Jiun-Yun @ Alexandria 10/08/2004

Alexandria 街道

這裡的街道名稱很有趣, 從King到Queen, Prince, Princess, Duke, ....一直下去. 而主要街道想當然爾是King St., 這裡的房子跟Maryland差很多, 比較像我還沒來美國前想像我應該要住的地方, 而這裡的房子聽說很貴, 很多DC裡面的議員跟官員都住這裡. 此外, Alexandria最著名的就是吃東西的店很多, 我們只待到傍晚就去趕去買菜了, 下次再來好好大快朵頤一番!

Jiun-Yun

Lake around.

It's the lake near my place. It's a artificial lake and people can swim until it was found with some poison elements. I like the US for its profound "green" and the space. Larger the space you have, wider the mind you own. Believe it or not, living here make me more comfortable due to the green, the forests, lake, ....They are all nature. But ironically, Americans always waste the materials to an unbelievable extent for Chinese. They use a lot of plastic bags, papers, waters, gas,.....I think we chinese have more real attitude toward the nature. Hope I won't be affected or tainted by this country. We have only one Earth.

Jiun-Yun

Stuffs...

Wow! It's the first week we arrived at the Greenbelt. Nothing was here and nowhere we knew. Time is always the best pacifying pill to people. We did a lot and finally got a wonderful place now. But we picked this photo to remind us to cherish our properties we own and give the very thanks to the guys who ever gave us a hand. Hopefully we can help more guys next year and in the future.

Jiun-Yun

Crazy Red

Everyone without red clothes won't come in UMD terps game. In the states, color is very important for every school. You can see yellow-blue represents UMich, purple as Northwestern U., Green for MSU, Orange for U. of Texas, and Blue for Duke. In Taiwan, you could hardly see so many bright colors in people or their logos. Before here, I am not used to red. But now, red is better and better for me.

Jiun-Yun

Scoreboard of Byrd Stadium (of UMD)

The scoreboard of UMD Byrd stadium. This was the first football game I attended and also the start of 2004 season for UM Terps. It's an exciting game and we won by 3 points. Due to our rookie QB, we just have a tie record (3-3) and on the consecutive loses. Football is one of three sports I like most. If you watch very often and understand it more well, you will figure out why Amercians craze for it. It's the standard spirit of America--- Hero, Team work and Win.

Jiun-Yun

Chesapeake Bay

It's Hardrock's guitar and you can see from the boat's side "Chesapeake" standing for the name of the inner bay of Maryland. Here I found one Barnes & Noble but it seemed not better than Eslite or PageOne in Taiwan. So Amazon becomes the medium between knowledge and me.

Jiun-Yun

Inner Harbor at Balrtimore

It's the inner harbor at Baltimore cutting Maryland State into two pieces. It's my first city here but I am a little disappointed about this city. Maybe you have heard about Baltimore for a long time, but it's very old , boring, and nothing special for me.

Jiun-Yun

Terrapins (Terps)

What's that? He is our mascot- Terrapins or Terps. We have a very good basketball team and a fair football team. Some good guy you may know is from the former-Steve Francis(NBA star @Orlando Magic). However, the latter is worse, at least I think it's not so good. Well, the professional teams in Maryland also sucks. Washington Redskins, Baltimore Ravens and Orioles are not so strong as before, though Ravens is NFL champion in 2001. BTW, if you are a professional sports fan, the states is a good place for you.

Jiun-Yun

Campus

I think it's one of very few ways on which people can walk because UMD is a University for vehicles rather than human. It's not like the campus in Taiwan or even other campus in the states. Nontheless, it's wonderful being here for study.

Jiun-Yun

McKeldin Library

The Mckeldin Library is the main one in UMD. It's the view from the administration office to it. I think the books here are more than those in NTU. But NTU has a very beatiful new Library. Nothing can be always perfect. Just enjoy what you have now.

Jiun-Yun

Main Drive at Univ. of Maryland

It's the main drive in the campus. Every evening the traffic in the campus is always like that in Taipei, even worse. You can always walk on the sidewalks to see a lot of squirrels eating. I often think if I should call this country as a squirrel country. Why am I here? Could somebody tell me what's in your mind?

Jiun-Yun (Munio)

Turtles School !

What's that? It's Terrapins or you can call him "terps". Go Go Terps! Someone may wonder why our web system is called "Testudo". My dear girlfriend told me that it's kind of a Turtle.What? You don't understand. The real thing is UMD is a turtle school. T-shirts, caps, sweat-shirts... are full with Terps....How sad! I am a turtle student.....

Jiun-Yun (Munio) 10/16

(MMM) M Mark in Maryland...

Big M means the University of Maryland, College Park. Of course, you can also say that stands for Michigan, Maine, Mississippi,...etc. However, the color would be changed with time by our staff. It may depend on the events, football or basketball games (I guess). Anyway, welcome to my BLOG to see some photos. I will try to make it updated more often.
Jiun-Yun (Munio)