Granny Phen"s Wonderland: 大象奶奶的美國日記

Granny Phen bought an small olive tree, though rational speaking, I should not have bought anything alive upon traveling. I bought two museum tickets in NL as most of the museums require you book time slots and it's safer to buy tickets ahead of time. If possible, maybe I will invite my Dutch friend to share some thoughts about his stay in AUS 5 years ago. Recently made two small amount of donations to two Elephant Sanctuaries. It was so soothing to watch elephants happy and freely. Please do

The first impression I had in Melbourne was, **the First Floor** was technically **the Second Floor**; the most unforgettable thing for living in a hostel-like place with a bunch of persons was, someone washed their shoes with the washer(s) you were using for your underwear. After one night I finally joined my housemates for dinner and had a half bottle of wine, and applauded my French housemate who is a dancer that she was pretty, she had stopped complaining my getting up too early to the library

Before I came to Melbourne, my senior classmate who has been there said, "I believe you would like it! There are a lot of interesting animals." After I came to the US, my previous manager heard I have been to Australia, commented that, "Oh! There are usually some animals pretty big and big enough to kill you." Nevertheless, over the six months in Melbourne, I had to say I lived it in a way as if I were a giant accidentally entered Lilliputian - every moment was in fast-paced, and

Melbourne is a special city to me, I have a lot of memories there and I met a lot of cool and interesting people. A story can be interpreted in different ways in different perspectives, I guess that is so called "subjectivity". I really appreciate the nutrition Melbourne gave me, and I hope I could re-visit all the cities in the world that have ever made an impact in my life. That will be a cool project, isn't it? Today I am going to try recording the episode in English. Since I

在第二集中，大象奶奶介紹我在台灣的工作：曾經在廣播電台及電視台打工，接著考進公職的我，如何來到美國的呢？ Welcome to Granny's Phen's second episode, in which I am going to give an overview of my job as a public servant in Taiwan, and how I ended up deciding to go abroad and quit my stable government job.

大象奶奶我來自台灣，一個東亞的蕞爾小島。 二零一八年，告別在台灣穩定的九年公職生活，大齡隻身闖蕩美國，砍掉重練還重新念了第二個碩士，目前在美國將近六年。 在科技業擔任小螺絲釘的我，萬萬沒想到可以藉由Podcast，結合我最喜歡的聲音和科技，和遠方或近處的你們交流。 想做Podcast的想法其實一直盤旋不去，但真的執行的時候，發現～啊，也沒有那麼容易嘛！哈哈～ 這是我的第一個Podcast，簡短介紹了我的背景，同時預告了我即將到來的旅行計劃。 未來要聊些什麼呢？還沒有決定呢，但我會記得跟大家分享我的旅行見聞的，也希望大家喜歡我的作品的話，請持續關注我喔～