Kelly's notebook entry: Jul 28, 2010 My summer camp in Mongolia finished recently. Mongolia is astonishingly beautiful. There are vast plains and Mongolians who love being taken photos of. That’s such a beautiful country that I do want to visit again. 最近剛結束今年暑假的蒙古營隊。蒙古非常地美麗，有大片大片的草原和很喜歡拍照的蒙古人。那是一個我會想再度拜訪的國度。 June 26th, we finished our final exams in the afternoon and started the final preparation work. We rehearsed and made props, staying together in a small room all day long. After the day-long work, a lot of things were still waiting us to do, like packing luggage, preparing applications, and distributing and thinking hard to squeeze all the goods for children into the trunks. We slept only three or four hours a day. Everyone was at the edge of the amount of bearable load. However, luckily, we had a very warm group; we cheered up each other, always gave partners warm hugs and never complained about the heavy loading of works because we all knew clearly in our mind what our purpose is. And for this meaningful purpose, no matter how tired we were, we would go on. 6/26，下午剛結束期末考，我們開始最後的工作準備。從早到晚，排練劇本、製作道具，大夥兒一整天一起待在一個小房間中，準備進度還不夠，又要收行李、分裝物資、辦文件等出國雜事，每天三四個小時的睡眠，從早排練到晚，回到家中再繼續收行李。大家都快炸了，真的很辛苦，有些負荷不了，但是慶幸的是，我們擁有一個十分溫馨的團，大家都會彼此打氣，不會喊累，總是給予彼此擁抱與笑容。我們都清楚我們的目標是什麼，並且因為這個有意義的目標，再累，我們都會走下去。 It’s the leaving day, June 28th. Even though we were pretty tired these days, we were still very excited. We took pictures, chatted and practiced Mongolians we were still not much unfamiliar with. Though this is my first time to leave Taiwan, I had a group of good friends with me and I was quite relaxed. I know we were just like a family. We would mutually help and always be with each other. It is Korean Air that we took. At first I thought I would stay nervous on the plane, but it turned out that while the plain was taking off, I felt dizzy and closed my eyes. And then I just accidentally slept all the way to Korea Inchon airport. 終於，到了出發的這一天！六月二十八日。即使這幾天累癱了，但是在機場的大家還是十分興奮，我們拍照、趕快練習還沒背熟的蒙文、嘻嘻哈哈地聊天。這是我第一次出國，離開台灣，心中有些小緊張，但是因為有這個一群好朋友陪著我，我整個人很放鬆，我知道。我們是一個團，像是一個家，大家都會一直陪在彼此身邊。我們坐的是韓國航空，原本我以為在飛機上我會一直很緊張，飛機起飛一瞬間，我的頭的確好暈，有些不舒服，所以就把眼睛閉起來休息，沒想到連續熬好幾天夜的我就這樣睡著了！我就這樣整程不省人事地睡到了韓國仁川機場。 When we were waiting to transfer planes in Inchon, we found a little shop where offers free traditional Korean costumes to try on. We happily played around. The cloth that I wore seemed to be the cloth of cook or something. The two red cloths are the cloths of the King and the Queen. We arrived at Ulaanbaatar around eleven in the night. Though it was quite late at night, the airport was crowded with people waiting for their family and friends. We also found our passionate leader-Batald. (The name means hero in Mongolian.) Ulaanbaatar airport isn’t big and the light is a little faint but the immigration control is somehow strict. It took us great efforts to let all of our trunks in. The moment the plane landed, one of our Mongolian teammate said immediately: “It rained just now.” That’s maybe a unique sensitive smelling ability of Mongols. Just as she said, the time we walked out of the airport, we smelled a special, lovely scent, which combined with the cool of the night, the smell of grass and more smells that I couldn’t clearly tell. What I was sure was that it was the smell of freedom, nature and large plains. 在韓國機場等待轉機時，我們發現一個可以免費試穿韓國傳統服飾的小店面。大家便開始開心地試穿，我穿得好像是廚師之類的服裝，兩件紅色衣服則分別是國王跟皇后。大約晚上11點多，我們到達了蒙古的首都—烏蘭巴托。雖然已經很晚了，但是機場卻擠著等待家人、朋友回國的人們。我們也等到了我們熱情的團長—巴特。烏蘭巴托機場不大，燈光有些昏黃，但是入境管制卻有些嚴格，我們費了好大一番功夫才讓所有的團員跟我們的行李、道具等入關。方才飛機一降落時，團中的蒙古同學就說：｢剛剛下過雨了。｣那或許是蒙古人特有的敏銳嗅覺吧！一步出機場，果然撲鼻而來一陣奇異的香味，帶著暗夜的清涼，像是草香，卻又含了更多無法分辨的味道，嗅聞起來令人渾身舒爽。第一次，我發現可以用嗅覺來感覺廣闊的自然，雖然無法分辨，但是的確是一股，自由廣闊的自然的味道。 We got on a bus which has furry seats. We opened the window and greeted the fresh wind. When we were enjoying the cool wind, all of a sudden, the cap on one of our teammate’s head flied out of the window! Suddenly, the relaxing atmosphere froze and disappeared, and then followed by a burst of laughter. 我們坐上有毛毛座椅的公車，開著窗，迎著舒爽的風，外面一片漆黑。就在我們享受這涼爽的風時，突然，一位團員頭上戴的帽子就這麼從車窗中飛了出去，瞬間車中的陶醉氣氛凝結，隨之而來的是如雷震耳的爆笑聲。 Ulaanbaatar wasn’t lonely deep in the night. There were goats passing by our bus. FIFA live games were played at bars in the city. Whenever a player kicked in, we would hear the hoorays from somewhere far away, as if the whole city’s people all stayed in front of the same television watching the game. In this night, at Ulaanbaatar where it just rained, our adventure in Mongolia began. 深夜的烏蘭巴托不寂寞，馬路上不時有羊群經過，而且城市的酒吧也正播放著世界足球賽事，每當進球時，總會聽到從遠處傳來的歡呼聲，彷彿整個城市的人都守在同一部電視前一般觀看賽事一般。就在這剛下過雨的夜晚，我們抵達了烏蘭巴托，在蒙古的冒險，開始了。