2012-12-26 
【Aiden in English】
So, there I was with my mom, standing on the balcony of Star Princess at the crack of dawn to see the Amalia Glacier in the central part of the Chilean Southern Patagonian Ice Fields. The glacier descended from the Andes Mountains and sat like a frozen river above the sea. It had immense weight, and the oxygen had been pressed out of the ice, presenting it with a stunning crystalline appearance and a strange blue glow that caused it to have a light or dark texture. My science-loving mom gave me a quick lesson about it. Red and yellow lights were absorbed magically when majestic glaciers acted like filters. A crevasse or deep hole leaves light at the blue end of the visible light spectrum. Being a tidewater glacier along the coastline, the Amalia Glacier occasionally changed and shrank, like other glaciers, due to global warming. It was the very first experience that I had ever seen such a large iceberg! Mom looked at the wall clock as I couldn't hold my patience. It was time for me to start at the Youth Center. When I hopped wildly through its entrance, I was astonished that no one was there except the instructor and another girl named Keiry from Vancouver, Canada. Since there weren't enough people to participate in most of the activities, she and I decided to make Lego spinners. We spent hours building a foot-long spinner and had to try different approaches. The tip got crushed under the weight, and the entire body threatened to blow, which almost freaked us out. But after all our hard work, an enormous, colorful structure with random Lego pieces stuck out from here and there. We tried to test it. However, it falls out of balance and topples over. The loud crash meant that the spinner had not survived. Right then, more people showed off! Instead of one by one, they came by the tide. We could hear the doorbell ring several times in a minute, and soon it became crowded again. No more space was available for most of the Lego pieces laid on the floor. We all rushed to hang out with video games till the end of the morning. After my mom picked me up, we went straight to the restaurant. For lunch, I had the daily special, a potato soup, as my appetizer. As I slurped up the last drop, the entree, served with chicken stew, was closely followed. The flavor was so delicious that the potato soup tasted like garbage. After devouring my main course, I exited the elevator to meet my friends in the Youth Center. A teacher gave us a pop-dance lesson. Some of us were asked to sit and watch while the others were dancing. The next moment, everybody was fighting over a chair. The teacher said, "Boys, only the children with asthma could take a chair." With a blink, the other boys and I zipped away and hid in awkward places. After all were found, we began doing weird dances exclusively for Freeze Dance. Although it sounded funny, we caught a good moment to play Duck-Duck-Goose. 【紅霞譯】
破曉時分我跟媽媽站在甲板上，隨“公主•星辰”號客輪巡遊智利“土地的盡頭”阿瑪莉亞“聖作”冰川，這個由上帝打造的傑作位於智利南部山嶺冰原中央，自安第斯“高聳的山脊”山脈緩緩而來，像凍結的河流懸掛在太平洋灣峽之上；冰川體積大重量沉，內部氧氣全被排擠出來，造成表面晶瑩透亮，明暗深淺變化，着實增添了自身的厚重感。刻板 (科班) 出身的媽媽不由得津津樂道，在這裡冰川具有過濾功能，將紅黃兩色兼收並蓄，最後只把可見光譜中的藍光反射出來，致使冰川彰顯神秘幽藍的光澤。阿瑪利亞冰川屬於潮汐性冰川，因此受環境影響很大，隨着全球氣候變暖而日趨溶化變小，這是迄今為止我親眼見到的最大的冰山！
飽足眼福之後，我急不可耐地朝少年活動中心奔去，一進門口才發現，除有一位老師和來自加拿大溫哥華名叫凱里“黑髮”的女孩之外別無他人，玩伴這麼少，自然無法開展很多活動，我倆只好一起撥弄樂高積木，花了很多功夫搭建一個足有一英尺長的飛行器。開始時，飛行器頭輕身重險些夭折，弄得我們緊張兮兮；後來總算把它搞定，這兒凹進去，那兒凸出來，塊頭實在不小，接着我們拿來試飛，它失去了平衡，一下子栽到桌子底下，發出很大聲響，結果還是沒能成功。這時門鈴響個不停，片刻之間朋友們蜂湧而至，躺在地上的樂高積木不得不收攤讓位，我們隨即上網玩電腦遊戲，直到午休時刻。 媽媽來接我去餐廳吃午飯，我先要了碗土豆湯打打牙祭，剛喝完最後一口，主菜雞肉煲湯正好送到桌前，不怕不識貨就怕貨比貨，這個煲湯味道好吃得要命，而那個開胃頭台卻難喝得要死。 豪吃海喝美味佳餚之後，我乘電梯很快返回少年活動中心，老師一邊示範流行舞蹈，一邊告訴我們要麼靜坐觀摩，要麼學習舞步，大家不由分說，爭先恐後搶椅子起來，誰都不想跳來跳去，老師沒轍兒立馬補加規定，椅子只能留給有哮喘疾病的孩子，話音剛落我們立刻躲得無影無蹤。等再度集合的時候，我們成心搞怪，隨音樂翩翩起舞，甚至把幼兒園玩的把戲“捉迷藏”一起搬了出來。
Today in History(歷史上的今天)：
2009: 新西蘭達尼丁一南方的愛丁堡(Dunedin—Edinburgh of the South, NZ)  Amalia Tidewater Glacier w/ Its Intense Blue Color, Caused by the Density of the Glacial Ice & the Compression of Air Bubbles inside
(阿瑪利亞潮水冰川·因冰川的冰密度和其中氣泡的壓縮而呈濃郁的藍色)  Amalia Tidewater Glacier (阿瑪利亞潮汐冰川)
 Bernardo O'Higgins NP, the Largest of the Protected Areas in Chile
(開國元帥貝爾納多·奧希金斯“勇敢·海上行事者後裔”國家公園——智利最大的保護區)  Bernardo O'Higgins NP, the 3rd-Longest Expanse of Continental Ice on Earth Outside of Antarctica & Greenland
(地球上除南極洲和格陵蘭“綠地”島外第三長的大陸冰蓋 12-26-2012)  Eyre Fjord, the location of the Brüggen Glacier or the Pio XI Glacier & the Largest in the Southern Hemisphere Ooutside of Antarctica
(艾爾“巡視”峽灣· 布呂根“橋梁”冰川即皮奧“虔誠”11世冰川所在地，南半球除南極洲外最大的冰川 12-26-2012)  Backhand Attack (反手對攻 12-26-2012)
 Youth Center @ Star Princess
(“公主·星辰”號遊輪——少年中心 12-26-2012)  Lunch @ Star Princess
(“公主·星辰”號遊輪——午餐 12-26-2012) Crosslinks(相關博文): Chile(出遊智利)
South America(漂流南美洲) 小學四年級(4th Grade) |
