98迎宿魂

該怎麼說呢? 迎宿，真的是一輩子。連續3年都前往九華山莊，第一年是學員、第二年是服務員、第三年是老人。

對於看著迎宿漸漸形成到上營，其實我一直都抱持著複雜的心態。要不是當時我拒絕了總召，不然站在服務長的位置應該是我。我也能帶領著服務員與他們一起努力，直到最後一起擁抱一起哭泣，這又是一條未走之路。(小小的不正經心聲：苡均是我喜歡的型啦，可惡。) 我也是第一次站在外面，李豪善的圈圈外面，第一次感受到我是外人。

那4天的心酸並沒有比感動少，應該說...心酸更過於感動。我替當年的98服務員感到心酸，也替98老人感到心酸。薪傳時，我什麼感覺也沒有。因為就我的感受而言，他們99迎宿的感動是只屬於他們的。不管再怎麼接近，我們老人終究還是圈子外的人。我所有的感動僅來自於那只有跑過迎宿才會懂的，那一路走過來的心酸血淚史。

回去當老人是要有個寬容的心，我深深體會到。我們沒有義務去幫忙，這一切都是出自於一種切也切不斷的牽絆。更重要的是，那些營本是我心中重要的朋友們。我會再次去九華，就只是為了這些所謂的情感。然而營本們對我們98老人卻是冷漠的、極排外的與巧妙的無視，這很傷感情的欸。

不過最後在烤肉場，一聽到"第一天"的前奏，一起開始微笑時... 那一剎那，什麼都無所謂了，真的。一切的心酸與憤怒，都在那一瞬間化為我們當年98迎宿的感動。跳營舞會不自覺的微笑，揮別了心中的所有疲憊跟不滿。楊馥年做的薪傳影片，在我腦海中重播，這就是迎宿。

迎宿是一輩子的。

High School Nostalgia

This is what I miss about high school. There'll never be another time when one can freely act very stupidly in uniform skirts.

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I found a picture from last year, I miss the good times that maybe I've began to forget.

但回不去了。

Hey Digimon!

After falling into the world of Pokémon, I guess I'm still stuck in this whirlpool of memories. (sighs) Pokémon was one of the three main cartoons that I remember from my days in the States, the other two is Digimon and Cardcaptor Sakura. Digimon has forever been compared with Pokémon and not without good reasons too, they're both about the adventure of kids and monster-like creatures. I've already made it pretty clear that I love Pokémon from the bottom of my heart in the last post, lol, but that doesn't mean I prefer Pokémon over Digimon! Actually, I watched Digimon 01 and 02, yep, two complete series, and I gotta say that Digimon has a much more interesting plot than Pokémon. I know that a bunch of kids accidentally trapped in an other world and then ended up being the destined saviors all sound very cliché, but hey, that cartoon was from almost a decade ago!! And it was aired in the US, where not too much JP stuff has been introduced yet in those days. Kids loved that show, and that included me!!

I do have some preferences in this show, meaning that I liked those kids from 01 much more than 02. I mean, Tai is the ultimate one and only main-protagonist-looking-goggle-wearing guy that I would never hate, lol!!! I liked Matt, the best friend that gone bad but returned good, and I recall that I prefered his looks, ah... the blonde guy. I liked T.K. and Kari, the siblings type with the matching angels Digimons! These two were a large part of the reason that I continued with the second season, I'll get into that later. I liked the feminine Mimi with her cool hat and the computer geek Izzy and the nerdy-looking Joe. Seriously, I really think this group is the BEST in all of the Digimon series!

Good ol' Pokémon

Pokémon is THE memories of my elementary school days in Chicago of the USA, it was all the rage back in those days. It was a time when kids thought Game Boy Color was the best invention like ever, I'm joking of course, that was what I thought. lol It always kind of urks me nowadays that what little kids hold in their hands are the super expensive and high-tech looking PSPs, no offense to the hand-held counsel itself. You get to watch movies, take photos, listen to MP3s, and play fancy games with that one little machine. Now this is a long way off from what I lovingly held in my hands and played Pokémon with, yep, almost a decade ago... I'm feeling old and cynical.

Pokémon was so popular, it had the anime airing on TV (note: my Pokémon memories are all in English, including the anime and the songs), mangas selling in bookstores, trading cards literally everywhere, and the Game Boy games making kids like me even more addicted. I would wake up early on weekends just to see the Pokemon anime, and would save my pocket money to buy trading cards. Pokémon was the alpha one, next to Digimon and Yu-Gi-Oh. Oh, and I still have the trading cards stashed away in the house somewhere because I couldn't bring myself to throw them away. I think of these cards like photos that bring back fond old memories of times past...