Hey, I’m going to tell you about my wax museum story. Um, so I would go with my little host brother, Javi, on our little dates because he never went into the city, although he lived really very close to the city, he would just never go into Madrid. So, he was always wanting to go, so I would, you know, pack him along and, "Alright, Where do you want to go?" and he wanted to go the wax museum one day. So we go to this wax museum and we were by ourselves in this creepy old building and it was really dark, and there were like a lot of wax, like figures everywhere, and they’re full size and you can actually touch them and take your picture with them, but the lighting, it was low lighting, so it was really dark, and it was kind of scaring him, you know cause, at the time he was like 10, or something, so he was going up to all the wax figures and like saying something to them, just to try to like combat his like fear, he’d be like, "Oh, you’re ugly" or "Oh, look at the hair on your head" and things like that. So he was insulting all of them, um, you know as you do when you are little, and so he went up to this one not realizing it was a real man, cause the man was standing absolultely still, he wasn’t moving at all, and he was like,"and you!" and the guy said, "What about me?" and I swear to God, Javi, screamed like a little girl, and ran at me, and I was like, "I’m sorry, senor. He didn’t mean anything by it. It’s OK." But he get a chance to insult him, thank God, but yeah it was cute. It was really cute.

嗨，我要给大家讲一个有关我去蜡像馆的故事。嗯，我是和我弟弟贾维一起去的，我们去小小的约会了一下，因为他从来没有去过城市，他其实住得离城市非常近，他只是从未去过马德里。所以，他总是很想去看看，所以你知道，我就和他一起去了，“好吧，你想去哪？”有一天他想去蜡像馆。于是我们就去了蜡像馆，我们自己待在这座令人毛骨悚然的老建筑里，那里非常黑，而且有许多蜡像，到处都有蜡像，这些蜡像都是真人大小的，你可以触摸他们，和他们合影留念，但是灯光很暗，非常黑，这有点吓到他了，你知道，当时他只有10岁左右，他走到所有的蜡像旁边，好像和他们说了什么，他这么做只是为了减轻自己害怕的感觉，他会说：“哦，你真丑”或是“哦，看看你的头发”这样的话。他就这样冒犯了所有的蜡像，嗯，你知道，小的时候会这么做，他走到一个人身边，并没有意识到那是一个真人，因为那个男人站在那里一动不动，我弟弟说：“还有你！”那个男人说：“我怎么样？”我向上帝发誓，贾维当时像一个小女孩一样尖叫，然后跑向我，我只能说：“对不起，先生。他这么做没有恶意。没别的意思。”但是至少他得到了冒犯他的机会，谢天谢地，不过那很有趣。那真的很有趣。

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2017-02-12

远足 Hiking

Todd: Every year my company gives me three weeks holiday, in summer, in August, and usually I go home and I see my family, but two years ago, before I went home, I took a hiking trip in Japan and I went hiking across the "Minami Alps", uh, "Minami" means "south" so they’re the Southern Alps in Japan. It was a really good hike. The hike took me five days. Before I went on the hike I needed to buy some gear so I bought a tent, a backpack, some hiking boots, and a good map of the area I was going to traverse. When I did the hike it was really, really hard. I was not prepared for how difficult it was going to be. Each day I had to hike about 12 hours, and the hardest part about each hike was having to carry lots and lots of water because you’re walking all day, you have to drink lots of water or else you’ll get dehydrated. The mountains were really steep, but once I got over the first mountain, it was just beautiful, really, really beautiful, and I met lots of really nice hikers, especially elderly hikers on the trail and I just had a great time. I just remember the beautiful views from the peaks and at night I could see the stars really clearly, probably more clearly than I ever had before. It was a really really good trip.

托德：每年公司都会给我三周的假期，时间基本是在夏季8月份的时候，我通常会回家看家人，而两年前，我在回家前，去日本远足了，我徒步穿越了南阿尔卑斯山，嗯，“Minami”是“南方的意思”，所以就是日本的南阿尔卑斯山。那真是一次非常棒的徒步旅行。这次旅程用时五天。在远足之前我要买一些装备，所以我买了一个帐篷，一个背包，几双远足靴，一张我准备穿越的地区的地图。当我开始远足时，我觉得这真的是非常非常艰难。我并没有为可能遇到的困难做好准备。每天我都要徒步12个小时，最艰难的地方就是每次徒步旅行都必须要带大量的水，因为你要走一天，你必须要补充足量的水分，否则你就会脱水。那些山非常陡，但是当我越过第一座山的时候，那简直太美妙了，真的非常非常美妙，我在途中遇到了许多很好的远足者，特别是一些尝试远足的老年人，那真是美好的经历。我记得顶峰上美丽的风景，晚上我可以看见星星，看得非常清楚，可能比我之前看过星星的都要清楚。那真是一次非常愉快的旅行。

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2017-02-12

蜘蛛 The Spider

It was interesting as well while we were out on the farm, there were thousands of trees I think out on the farm, so we saw lots of different insects and little animals as well. The most exciting thing I saw was a red back spider, because the red back is one of the most poisonous spiders in Australia. So I had been traveling there for over a year I think at that stage and I’d never seen a red back spider, but I’d seen lots of colorful spiders, so that every time I saw a new colored spider I’d go and have a look and maybe play with it a bit or take a photo, something like that, so while I was picking the macadamia nuts with my friends I saw a really brightly colored spider, so I decided to, to get a stick and and kind of turn over a leaf and see what it was doing, and then I was kind of looking at it for awhile and then suddenly I realized, "Oh, my God! It’s red and black, it’s a red back spider!" So I thought, OK, I’d better stop playing with this guy, and leave him alone. So after over a year in Australia I saw my first red back on this macadamia farm and then later on that night, just before I was going to bed, I walked into the room I was staying in with my friend, and there on my bed was baby redneck spider, red back spider, sorry and I couldn’t believe it. After one year, no red backs and then two in one day. It was a bit crazy really so I had to get someone to help me to get rid of it, cause it was a bit scary.

这非常有趣，我们去农场的时候，我想那农场有数千棵树，我们还看到了许多不同种类的昆虫和小动物。最让我兴奋的是我看到了一只红背蜘蛛，而红背蜘蛛是澳大利亚最毒的蜘蛛之一。当时我已经在那里旅行了一年多的时间，我从未见到过红背蜘蛛，但是我看见了许多颜色鲜艳的蜘蛛，所以当时我看到一只不同颜色的蜘蛛我就会过去仔细端详它们，可能还会摆弄一下那只蜘蛛，或是给它们拍照，我会做类似这样的事情，我和朋友在摘澳洲坚果的时候，看到了一只颜色格外鲜艳的蜘蛛，所以我决定去找个树枝或是类似的东西，翻开树叶去看看它在做什么，之后我观察了它一会儿，突然我意识到，“哦，我的天哪！它是红色和黑色的蜘蛛，它是只红背蜘蛛！”所以我想，好吧，我最好不要再摆弄它了，就让它待着吧。那是我在澳大利亚一年多的时间里第一次在澳洲坚果农场看到红背蜘蛛，那天晚上，就在睡觉前我走进房间，和我的朋友待在一起，当时我的床上竟然有小的红颈蜘蛛，哦，对不起，是小的红背蜘蛛，我当时简直不敢相信。之后一年以后，没有红背蜘蛛了，有时一天会出来两只。那真有点疯狂，因此我不得不找人来帮我除掉它，因为那真有点可怕。

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