🏡 在同個屋簷下的我們，不能一直低著頭做自己的事，週更挑戰讓大家慢下腳步，探頭看看身邊的人，You can speak aloud, but don’t speak alone. 四月主題為 Discovery 探索，週更挑戰的目的除了學習知識，更要發現巴奈學校裡臥虎藏龍的同學！ 共同奮戰的情感 Camaraderie 可以讓你： ✔ 慢下腳步認識他人 ✔ 更願意行動 ✔ 不僅學英文，更「用英文」學知識 HOW TO 怎麼玩週更挑戰？ - 四月的每星期日 4/5、12、19、26 - 在現在這篇貼文下面留言「這週學到的英文相關知識」 - 單字片語、文化、歷史、衝擊都歡迎 - 主動出擊創造牽引力：分享、留言、按讚 ✌️ IMPORTANT 觀念是： 不用害怕你寫的東西沒價值，我們要「分享」是因為你以為的無聊常識，可能是別人的寶物，在週更挑戰裡，我們結盟學習。 You in?

Ok. To be fair, Lunar New Year is his number one but it’s a given so I’m going to say that Qingming is a very close second. 故事時間，單字就讓大家自己找囉！ - 🌈 他在清明連假跟我父母「提親」 February 2017, he proposed to me (with no ring 😂 but we will save the story for another day). We knew that he also had to "pass" my parents' test because at that point, we only knew each other for 1 year. April 2017, during the Qingming Festival long weekend, he sat down with my parents and some elders in my family to formally "propose" to my parents. He spoke Chinese, prepared notes and wore a nice shirt. It was a big deal! 🌈 跟我回台東掃墓的經驗讓他大開眼界 On the same long weekend, he visited my grandparents' graves and my uncle's, going through the rituals of praying, preparing offerings and even "speaking" to them. He saw the big tents outside of 靈骨塔, tables full of food and air filled with burning incense. It was crowded, smokey and noisy but there seemed to be an order. He was amazed. 🌈 深刻感受靈性和精神上的心理療癒 He felt a spiritual connection when I "showed" him to my late uncle. This uncle was a special person in my life and I always said that I wish my uncle could have met him. And on that long weekend, he did. It was a deeply emotional and intimate experience for the all of us. 🌈 他本身跟自己爸爸就會有去看爺爺奶奶墳墓的習慣 My husband and his father always had the habit of visiting grandparents' graves. Not all the time, but often, compared to average American families. They would light a candle, clean the graves and talk about memories of them. So it is safe to say that the concept of 掃墓節 is not strange to my husband. 🌈 希臘人的家庭觀念比一般西北歐國家深 You may be surprised to learn this but Italians and Greeks (and Hispanic) have quite strong family values. They stay close. It is also common to see grandparents taking care of grandkids, even in multi-generational homes（多代同堂）. Doesn't it sound similar to Taiwan families? - 我自己都驚訝，但是也很欣賞老公對我和家人的尊重。老實說，我身邊聽過的案例常是女兒變成「潑出去的水」，搬到國外後跟家裡的交集願來越淺，家裡也覺得因為老公是外國人，所以妥協很多傳統觀念或習俗。我覺得有點可惜了！ ▀

在想像力訓練營的第二集「10個聯想技巧」，其中之一是分享自己的意見或觀點。 常聽到的 What’s your take? 或 What is your take on XYZ? 問的就是你對某事的「個人觀點」。 加以延伸的一個用法就是 hot take: It refers to an “unpopular opinion”, or a viewpoint that you personally think others may disagree, or it may offend someone. You may want to use the term when testing the water in a conversation 對話中試試水溫。類似口語的「逆風」。 影片前段逐字稿 ⬇️ -What is the main difference between Chinese and Japanese?（中國和日本的主要差別在哪裡 -People?（你指人嗎？） -Let’s say people. （假設是人的話。） -This might be a little bit of a hot take. But umm, I think Japanese people are extremely polite, but not friendly. And Chinese people, they are extremely friendly, but sometimes not polite. （這可能聽起來有點逆風，但，我覺得日本人極度有禮貌，但不友善，但中國人，他們極度友善，但有時候不禮貌。） 原影片 @kaja_kyoto 🧠 Food for thought 延伸思考 - 學習 take & hot take 的用法 - 探討 friendly vs. polite 之間的細微差別 想了想，你覺得影片有道理嗎？

感謝同學 @Erin Lin 繳交給我的自習作業！ 在 🧠 想像力訓練營的第三集，我們運用「聯想技巧＋實用例句」成功將點子串接起來。 💡「思想列車」在此指從一個點子（Ａ）一路開車到終點站（Ｚ）的過程，如何逐一聯結（associate）、串接（articulate）是這個訓練營的最大焦點。 來看看 Erin 的練習 ⬇️ 思想列車 (1) ：Camera ➽ National Geographic ➽ books exhibition ➽ Thailand ➽ moon shrimp cake ✏️ "I go from camera to National Geographic because they have the 國家地理女性經典影像展 in Taipei. And National Geographic reminds me of books exhibition. Cuz they attended to the Books exhibition this year. There’s the theme of Thailand 泰國主題館 in Books exhibition on January . Thailand leads me to moon shrimp cake." 思想列車 (2) ：Snowflake ➽ Let it go ➽ Kpop demon hunters ➽ Oscar ➽ Thong ✏️ "When I think of snowflake, it brings me to Let it go the movie. Then Kpop demon hunters came up, cuz both of them are great musical animation. The song “Golden” from Kpop demon hunters wins Oscars for the best original song. Robert Downey Jr. and Channing Tatum did a bit over a silver thong, that’s why it ends up w thong." - 我們可以從中而學的句型： - go from A to B - A reminds someone of B - A leads me to B - When I think of A, it brings me to B. - Something comes up - I end up with something. - 第二條列車有台灣＋美國的文化梗，能顯示腦袋裡多樣的「假設和可能性」（assumptions and possibilities 是第一集的重點）。另外一點是，適時用中文讓腦袋的點子引流出來是沒關係的！ Erin did a fantastic job. You can do it too!

「好奇心是愛的語言」...嗎？ 這篇文章呼應的我們三月的主題「想像力」，在人跟人之間的互動，想像力會被認為是「關心、在意」. Personally, I couldn't agree more. 程度中高級 ★★★☆☆ 部分精選單字看文末解釋 語氣自然不做作（雖然用了太多的『because』），相當適合開口朗讀！這個禮拜還沒開口說英文的你，跟我一起唸唸看吧！ 全篇文章 ⬇️ I was in a relationship for 6 years and he loved me in all the ways you could see. We went on dates, we bought each other gifts, we talked every single day. For a long time, I thought that was all you needed, but what was missing was the depth. He just wasn’t really curious about me. And it sounds silly but he as really into planes so I’d always ask him about them. Every time he picked up a new hobby, I’d ask him what drew him to it but I didn’t realize how much I needed that back until I made a bid for connection. A while ago, my dad and I went to Boston to see this artist I admire. When I came back, I was excited to tell mu boyfriend about it and he said, “oh cool, when you gonna be back?” That was it. It was always like that and I remember thinking “maybe this is something we can work on”. So I’d make more bids for connection, but he never changed. Then one day, around 6 months after we broke up, and I became friends with this girl and one day we were just hanging out. I casually mentioned that I liked this artist, and then she caught me off guard with “what is that you actually like about these paintings?” And I was surprised and said “Oh well it’s the strategy. Impressionism is harder than realism because realism is just copying.” She thought for a second and then she just said, “why do you think that?” And I just froze. It was such a simple question and we barely knew each other then. But I felt oddly seen and heard in that moment because it wasn’t just “oh she wanted to know more about art”. It was that this girl I barely knew was still curious to know more about who I really was and in that moment, I felt more sense than I felt in my past 6 years of relationship I was in. Because talking, dates, and gifts are all rituals of love but being curious was the actual intimacy and making someone feel seen requires a level of genuine interest in who they are. Because love is more than just rituals. It’s remembering that the person in front of you is deeper than the version you already know. And being curious enough to keep discovering because if I love you, I just want to know who you are.