澳洲生活論壇成立

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My treasure

Something I treasure which is significant for me is my cell phone.
My cell phone is very costly, because the new one costs $800. It has many functions, and it is similar to a little computer. I can install many programs like English dictionary, games and personal documents etc. I save many songs in it, so I can listen to music everywhere. The other important function is that it is a simple camera. When I go shopping it can help me to remember the prices of the many things that I want to buy. I can compare the same things on different shop's prices, so I can make a good decision.
It's very valuable and useable, but it's not the main reason that I treasure it. It's a gift from my student's parents. I taught their children for 4 years, and we have become good friends. It belonged to the mother before, but she gave it to me when she knew I wanted to go to Australia. When I use my cell phone I can remember many interesting things about my students and their parents. I don't feel lonely anytime.
I don't think how valuable it is by money. Something is the most sentimental value, because it's a part of my memory.

10/16匯率

citibank新台幣 掛牌參考匯率

幣別	代碼	單位	電匯		現鈔
			銀行賣出	銀行買進	銀行賣出	銀行買進
美金	USD	1	32.6966	32.5334	33.0231	32.2076
英鎊	GBP	1	66.7729	66.0081	N/A	N/A
瑞士法郎	CHF	1	27.7428	27.3876	N/A	N/A
日圓	JPY	1	0.2819	0.2759	N/A	N/A
澳幣	AUD	1	29.3108	28.6947	N/A	N/A
歐元	EUR	1	46.5809	45.8252	N/A	N/A
加拿大幣	CAD	1	33.5287	33.052	N/A	N/A
港幣	HKD	1	4.2423	4.1703	N/A	N/A
新加坡幣	SGD	1	22.4112	22.0592	N/A	N/A
馬來西亞幣	MYR	1	8.1998	7.9361	N/A	N/A
瑞典克郎	SEK	1	5.1149	4.9772	N/A	N/A
紐西蘭幣	NZD	1	24.6761	24.1403	N/A	N/A
泰銖	THB	1	1.0671	1.0103	N/A	N/A
印尼盾	IDR	1	0.0042	0.0033	N/A	N/A

 

兆豐國際商銀

幣別	即期買匯	現金買匯	即期賣匯	現金賣匯
美金[USD]	32.6100	32.3400	32.7100	32.8600
港幣[HKD]	4.1840	4.1140	4.2440	4.2840
英鎊[GBP]	66.4400	65.5400	66.8400	67.4900
日圓[JPY]	0.2770	0.2707	0.2811	0.2816
澳幣[AUD]	29.2100	28.9900	29.4100	29.6600
加拿大幣[CAD]	33.3500	33.0800	33.5500	33.8200
新加坡幣[SGD]	22.1900	21.7800	22.3700	22.5300
南非幣[ZAR]	4.7200	0.0000	4.8400	0.0000
瑞典幣[SEK]	5.0200	0.0000	5.1200	0.0000
瑞士法郎[CHF]	27.5900	26.9900	27.7900	28.0400
泰幣[THB]	1.0180	0.9330	1.0600	1.0780
---	0.0000	0.0000	0.0000	0.0000
紐西蘭幣[NZD]	24.5100	24.2600	24.7100	24.9200
歐元[EUR]	46.2000	45.7000	46.6000	46.8500

 

臺灣銀行

幣別	即期買匯	現金買匯	即期賣匯	現金賣匯
美金[USD]	32.6100	32.3400	32.7100	32.8600
港幣[HKD]	4.1840	4.1140	4.2440	4.2840
英鎊[GBP]	66.4400	65.5400	66.8400	67.4900
日圓[JPY]	0.2770	0.2707	0.2811	0.2816
澳幣[AUD]	29.2100	28.9900	29.4100	29.6600
加拿大幣[CAD]	33.3500	33.0800	33.5500	33.8200
新加坡幣[SGD]	22.1900	21.7800	22.3700	22.5300
南非幣[ZAR]	4.7200	0.0000	4.8400	0.0000
瑞典幣[SEK]	5.0200	0.0000	5.1200	0.0000
瑞士法郎[CHF]	27.5900	26.9900	27.7900	28.0400
泰幣[THB]	1.0180	0.9330	1.0600	1.0780
---	0.0000	0.0000	0.0000	0.0000
紐西蘭幣[NZD]	24.5100	24.2600	24.7100	24.9200
歐元[EUR]	46.2000	45.7000	46.6000	46.8500

 

The more Difficult it is, The better the progress.

I would talk about my experience at CIC.

This is good for me that I go to CIC by a tram or a train, because it is near the trams' stop and the Melbourne center station. I don't have to walk a long way, so I can save a lot of time to study or visit the city after school. I don't worry about getting up late every morning.

The other is that there are many students. They are from different countries, and I can make lots of friends here. They are friendly and kind. We can know more about foreign culture. It is very interesting to me.

Listening and speaking English is always difficult for me. My teachers at CIC are very different from my teachers in Taiwan, and their pronunciation is different from American. My classmates have their special pronunciation and me, too. We often spend a lot of time to understand each other and repeat our sentences again more again. Sometimes I want to answer my teacher's questions in class, but I don't understand the question. I sometimes feel depression and setback.

Difficulty doesn't always mean that it is bad. I think it is good for me, because it prompts me that I have to improve English even more.

英文闖關遊戲景點之一

Chloe by Jules-Joseph Lefebvre She has graced magazine covers, had wine named after her and poems written to her. She has experienced fame and adoration and has won high acclaim from critics. Her career began, like the many models after her, in Paris but she was created and moulded by a Master. She is a Melbourne icon, mascot for the HMAS Melbourne, an extremely fine work of art, she is an ingenue, a nymph, a celebrity. She is Chloe, the famous nude portait which has graced the walls of the Young and Jackson Hotel since 1909. Throughout her life, Chloe has kept company with artists, poets, wharfies, Prime Ministers and drunks, soldiers, sailors, celebrities, bushies, labourers and art connoisseurs. Her history involves transformation, death, intrigue, love, war, depression and passion. Chloe was brought to life in Paris in 1875 by the artist Jules-Joseph Lefebvre, one of the most respected and leading academic masters of the painted nude figure in the late 1800s. Marie, a young Parisian woman, modelled for Lefebvre's Chloe when she was around the age of 19. Of Marie there are many tales, but the most probable is that told by Lefebvre's contemporary and student, George Moore. Moore noted that she was a model who posed for several artists and, after throwing a party for her friends, spent her last money on poisonous matches, boiled these up, drank the concoction and died. Moore alludes that the reason for her suicide was love. It is believed that when Marie died she was about 21 years of age. Chloe's debut at the Paris Salon - a showcase exhibition for the leading French academic masters and their prize works - was a raging success. Chloe and Lefebvre won the Gold Medal of Honour, the greatest official award to be bestowed on a French artist and the first of three gold medals Chloe was to win. In 1879 she was the central figure in the French Gallery at the Sydney International Exhibition and at the Melbourne International Exhibition of 1880, Chloe scooped the pool, winning both the highest awards and acclamation. Chloe was purchased by Dr Thomas Fitzgerald of Lonsdale Street, Melbourne, for the princely sum of 850 guineas. In 1883 Dr Fitzgerald approached the National Gallery of Victoria and offered Chloe for extended exhibition while he visited Ireland for three years. However, while Chloe had won the highest of critical acclaim, she had not yet won the hearts of the Melbourne people. With new Sunday opening times in effect and a naked woman at the Gallery, the Presbyterian Assembly worked themselves up into a frenzy of religious protestation. Melbourne society found Chloe's presence in the Gallery quite scandalous. Meetings were held, letters were written, the Sunday Observance League and the Presbyterian Assembly had to be heard. The Argus newspaper was so inundated with letters of both complaint and passion that they dedicated a column solely to the issue of 'Chloe in the Gallery'. Chloe only lasted three weeks in the Gallery before being withdrawn from exhibition and shipped to Adelaide where she was found not to be such scandalous company. On return to Melbourne Chloe remained with Dr Fitzgerald for a further 21 years causing scandal while hanging in his front salon. Passers by on the street could ellicit a view of Chloe, complaints arose and Fitzgerald was forced to move her, this time to the back of his house. Upon Sir Thomas' death in 1908 Chloe needed a new home. This was provided by Mr Norman Figsby Young, the ex-gold digger, art collector, Irishman and entrepreneur of Young and Jackson fame who bought Chloe at Sir Thomas' estate auction for £800. She then graced the public bar of the Young and Jackson Hotel for the cultured viewing and criticism of a wholly new audience. Chloe has kept soldiers company through two World Wars, a Korean War and a Vietnam War. During these times she has held a special place in the hearts of our soldiers, as witnessed on Anzac Day this year when more than 2,000 people went to Young and Jackson's to have a drink in her company. During the World Wars diggers came to drink with Chloe before being shipped out. Letters were written to her from the trenches of Turkey, France, and Papua New Guinea, swearing their true love and promising to return. During World War II a crewman aboard a German luxury liner was accused in the US of being a spy. As an alibi he recalled that at the time of the offence he was in Melbourne. Remembering it well, he noted a railway station with a hotel opposite and a nude in the bar - case dismissed! American GIs fell so in love with her during World War II that plans were made to abduct her. At this time one particular GI, before he went home, was so besotted with Chloe that he threw a glass of beer at her exclaiming that 'he would give her something to remember him by'. In 1943, after this incident, Chloe underwent conservation work followed by a two-week exhibition at the Kozminsky Gallery as her first effort for charity. At sixpence a view Chloe raised money for returned servicemen's repatriation. She was a smashing success and raised £300. In 1987 Chloe moved upstairs into her own salon. Two years ago Foster's Brewing was thrilled to acquire, through its Australian Leisure and Hospitality Group, two of Melbourne's most famous and recognisable icons, the Young and Jackson Hotel, and Chloe. Having put up with each other for almost 100 years, Chloe and Y&J's have become inextricably linked as part of Melbourne's heritage. The National Trust and Heritage Victoria decreed several years ago that they remain bound together forever. The Foster's Brewing Group, as custodian of this heritage, is presently refurbishing Chloe's home whilst Chloe has been enjoying popular acclaim on exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria. While she is away from home, Chloe is again raising money, this time for Challenge: a cancer support network. Through the provision of a full range of recreational and support services, Challenge improves the quality of life of Victorian children and their families living with cancer and other life-threatening blood disorders. The original block of land was bought in 1837 for £100 by John Batman, one of the founders of Melbourne. and was used as a girls' school. A hotel was later built on the site which, after several changes of ownership, was bought by two men who had been successful on the gold fields in New Zealand - Messrs Young and Jackson. Meanwhile, in another part of town, another story was emerging. At the grand exhibition of 1880 held in the Exhibition Buildings, a nude painting, Chloe, by Chevalier Jules le Febvre had won a gold medal. When this painting was exhibited at the National Gallery in 1881, a scandal broke out. Chloe was much too brazen for the puritanical 'wowsers' of Melbourne society, and the trustees of the gallery were abused in the newspapers for allowing her to flaunt herself in the gallery - and on a Sunday afternoon! Messrs Young & Jackson were eventually able to buy Chloe in 1908 and hung her above the bar in their hotel. Custom increased dramatically. Young and Jackson's and Chloe have been inseparable ever since. Chloe was allowed a brief excursion recently. She was allowed out to hang in an exhibition of nudes. Where? At the National Gallery! She was removed in a rather undignified manner by a crane through the first floor window. But she has returned from that little outing, back to the bar now named after her. Y & J's has become almost as famous a meeting place as 'under the clocks'. Many diggers during both world wars arranged to meet their mates afterwards at Young and Jackson's. And Chloe still smiles down on them.

Rich, then Happy

I think it's better to be rich than happy.

The first reason is that I can get more time. If I was rich, I wouldn't have to work. I would travel everywhere all my life, and my dreams would come true.

The second reason is that I could take care of my family. They wouldn't worry about money. They would have enough time to find their dreams. If they were happy, then I would be happy, too.

The third reason is that I could earn more money, and I could use my money to earn even more. I could give jobs to other people, so they could take care of their families, too.

These reasons are why I would rather be rich than happy. I would have more chances to be rich in my life.

天阿!我會肥死!

Homestay Dinner

Melbourne Show

2007-09-30-Melbourne Show

門票17元,每項設施都需要花錢去玩,

像摩天輪一個人8元,包廂28元,澳洲人的錢還真好賺,

不過那天有看到主廚秀

還有酒與起司搭配的試吃活動,

還算滿意啦