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2013-04-04 
【Aiden in English】
North Seymour Island was formed through a series of uplifts of lava that was originally erupted underwater because of the discovery of marine fossils on its plateau surrounded by low cliffs. These sporadic uplifts took more than a million years to bring the island to its present level. The island was now home to abundant and diverse wildlife.
After lunch, we lined up for deep-sea snorkeling a
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2013-04-04 
【Aiden in English】
Santa Cruz Island was the center of the Galapagos archipelago, where the volcanic activity had long ceased. It had the largest human population among any of the few islands that people inhabited.
By 9:00 am, the sun was already steaming hot. We just began to walk along the northeast coast of Santa Cruz Island. There was a hideout where two US military barges for WWII broke their moorings and ran aground on the b |
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2013-04-03 
【Aiden in English】
Bartolome Island consisted of an extinct volcano that mixed its colorful with red, orange, green, and black volcanic rock formations like Mars. It was considered the most spectacular setting in the Galapagos. As one of the relatively younger islands, its volcanic origins were easy to be seen with an excellent example of volcanism.
This afternoon, we took a short but steep hike on the slopes o |
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2013-04-03 
【Aiden in English】
Here we had the opportunity for a morning hike over a blackened landscape that was nothing less than a geologic wonderland in Sullivan Bay, the northeast of Santiago Island. At every step, we would see the hardened twists and turns of lava that flowed during a volcanic eruption in the 1900s.
If you were talking about an "evil island", would it be jagged rocks, skeletons, scattered b |
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2013-04-02 
【Aiden in English】
My first statement after I went outside was: "It's foggy." And that was absolutely true. The fog wasn't the kind you saw every month in your front yard. It looked like a white pillow on top of everything in sight. Even in the old days, superstitious pirates would call the Galapagos Enchanted Islands because the islands would fade away into the mist and disappear for no reason.
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2013-04-01 
【Aiden in English】
Mom and I had a quick lunch and then began to get ready for our afternoon activity. This time we visited another island called Rabida, an uninhabited island of red sand, rocks, and dirt made of lavas rich in iron.
Rabida Island looked as if the top of an old volcanic cone bathed in crimson. The ground was hued brilliant red and sat amid coves and lagoons with clear blue wa |
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2013-04-01 
【Aiden in English】
The rocks crunched beneath our feet as we walked through tropical forests with singing mockingbirds and buzzing insects. This morning was our first shore excursion to take place on the west bank of Santiago Island in the center of the Galapagos archipelago.
Puerto Egas was one of the most popular sites in James Bay of Santiago Island, where salt mining operated until the 1960s. After a wet la |
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Easter，2013-03-31 
【Aiden in English】 I yawned loudly as Mom and I entered our cabin of Celebrity Xpedition. For the whole morning, we were sitting on a seat of LAN Ecuador from Quito, the capital city to Galapagos Islands in the Pacific Ocean after stopped over Guayaquil, the largest Ecuadorian city. Galapagos Islands were a volcanic archipelago about 500 miles/926 km west of mainland Ecuador and became a living museum o |
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2013-03-30 
【Aiden in English】 Pew! Pew! Pew! It went my 3DSXL as Mario got zapped by Bowser Junior's Wadoo magic for the fifth time. Mom and I were waiting for our tour guide for about 10 minutes now and we're getting awfully bored. We were going to cross the equator and heading the northern Sierra for Otavalo in a two-hour drive north of the bustling Quito to see the famous market, particularly on Saturday. |
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Good Friday，2013-03-29 
【Aiden in English】
Today was Holy Friday and we stayed in Quito, the capital city of Ecuador. At an elevation of 9,350 feet/2,800 meters above sea level with the latitude of 0o15"S, Quito was the highest and only capital situated on the Equator in the world.
After I put on a new set of clothes, Mom and I went down for breakfast |
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2013-03-28 
【Aiden in English】 Nothing was better to start my trip than waking up at the break of dawn and driving to the Philadelphia International Airport (PHL) at 4:000 am. On the road, I was extremely tired, sleepy, and stressed. By the time we arrived at PHL, my eyes felt as if they weighed over 100 pounds/45 kilograms. Just after I sat in our plane seat, I comfortably propped myself against mom and fell asleep. I was awok |
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2013-03-27 
每年三月底或四月初，适逢耶稣受难日─复活节宗教活动，我家童少所在的北宾州学区都要特别选定这个时段，停课休学放羊三天，从星期四至星期一囊括周末，春假满打满算少说足有大半个礼拜。 坦率地讲，我做梦都没有想到，但凡适龄青少年儿童，都可以向春天讨价问假。在国内，我从未经历这般欢度春假的学生时代；来美后，虽然早有听说，南边墨西哥坎昆城可谓女生笑傲加勒比海的胜地，而东面佛罗里达州代托纳海滩(Daytona Beach)则是男生狂飙大西洋的 |
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2013-01-11 International Parity at Work Day 
【Aiden in English】
〖Prelude〗 There was no place on Earth like Rio de Janeiro as the natives proudly said.
Founded in the early 16th century, Rio was once the capital of Brazil up to 1960. The city remained the nation's cultural and spiritual center with an amalgam of Latin and African heritage. As Brazil's |
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2013-01-10 
【Aiden in English】
This summer, torrential rain was extremely unusual in Rio de Janeiro. We spent the whole morning watching the rain pour on and on. By noon, nothing was improving unless somebody called raindrops the size of bird pellets growing to the size of golf balls as "improving". When a streak of sunlight came through the clouds, mom took the chance and set up the tone that we should explore. At the back of my head, I t |
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2013-01-09 
【Aiden in English】
We missed the tour bus in the morning. So mom and I decided to set foot on our own and look around the Brazilian capital created ex nihilo in the center of the country in 1956. The glaring sunburned my neck as my mom and I walked around the Monumental Axis of Brasilia.
Like the newly built Anzac Parade of Canberra in Australia we visited three years ago, the Monumental Axi |
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2013-01-08 
【Aiden in English】
To start the day off, mom and I were overwhelmed with a breakfast banquet in Brazilian style from ham to ice cream cake. It looked like quite a delightful cuisine as its neighbors like Chilean and Argentine in South America. I did not eat much but felt full already once I was floating in the food sea. Mom indulged herself with Brazilian fresh roasted coffee and couldn't even walk to our room.
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2013-01-07 
【Aiden in English】
The cool wind blew in my face as a ferryboat zipped along with the docking of the water on the beach of San Martin Island. San Martin was a small lush island right in the center of Iguazu National Park in Argentina, which offered the closest views of the falls. The island was rough and strenuous to climb. The stairs never seemed to end! By the time mom and I arrived at the top, I felt as if my legs were made of jelly, |
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2013-01-06 
【Aiden in English】
One thing good about the plane flights was that I could sleep all the time as much as I wanted between takeoff and landing. I bonked my head against the seat in front, which disrupted my wonderful dream of dancing with bunnies.
When the full blast of heat like a sauna from the outside started to melt me at Iguazu International Airport of Argentina (IGR), mom quickly |
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