2008/07/30

Ciao! Bocconi - 5



(跟我最要好的乖乖牌Alberto,我們在政大的星巴克聊了將近40分鐘,他是個健談的人!!)

Today is their last day for the Summer Campus in Taiwan.

Besides they had their own final exam,

we held a farewell party for them.

Jean prepared lots of food including pizza, spaghetti, cakes, and some soft drink.





(他們的presentation course,感覺外國人就算是穿西裝,也還是有幾分雅痞的味道)

After the exam, it was a total release for them to make it done.

So were us. We did our one-week job to receive them with our best efforts.

In the farewell party, we still had to pretend to be friendly to them.

Cause all the photos would be on the web site and would become another promote for other foreign campeigns.

Surely, for me, Stefano, Ilya, and Baolo were inclined to talk to me for each other.

It would not be so easy to make a friend with them in such a short time.

And they had  28 themselves to talk to each other in Italian.

But Jean encouraged us to try our best to make more outstanding accomplishment.

After the big mess, everything was done.





(大人氣的隨課助教I-An,常常受到Stefano和Raffale的包圍!!)

Their teaching assisstant, Laura, and Professors Bonini said thanks to us to receive them with our sincerity.

They also said that these 28s were difficult to manage, but still lots of thanks to our efforts.





(英文很罩的Angela,也是個多才多藝的小提琴手!!)

I had some reflections after this buddy program.

Will I have such a good budy or friend when I am abroad?

Do I have this kind of behavior that makes people feel down?

Even people talk with the same language, but talk in different mood and thoughts.

2008/07/28

Ciao! Bocconi - 4



(在會館等待出發時,右二是Anita,不但是此buddy program的leader,人緣也很好喔!!)

周末,跟家人外出,接到James的電話,

說後半的行程都取消,只需要等候支援就可以了,

因為助教Jean跟這群幫忙的buddy吃過飯後,

認為一開始太把他們當作"好"外星人來接待,

加上安排的行程我們本地生都有派人去旅館standby,

造成他們覺得選擇性的行程有點人情壓力,(明明有壓力的是我們啊=..=|||)

另外呢,Professor Bonini也出了不少作業和最後的考試預告給他們,

所以他們損失了很多機會繼續體驗台北fun。





(所以成員在101外等待時的一幕)

不過他們體驗了台北101和Room18之後,

總是意猶未盡地想再去那邊鬼混。

唉呀呀,果然是典型的外國人啊,

另外呢,他們自訂的行程中,周末是去宜蘭,

他們有多麼地期待啊~

而且颱風剛過,完全沒影響到他們的計畫,

但事後卻聽說他們玩得不是挺開心的,

因為一路上都很趕(沒辦法啊,台灣人喜歡這樣...)

然後原本預期下水的,也沒有下水啊~(真慘,他們多想曬得brown一點)

而取消的行程中,包含我自己要帶她們吃麻辣鍋的部分也取消了,

所以由我們幾個碩班的同學去馬辣享用(生意真夠好的!!)



(歐洲人最熱衷的運動:足球,不過沒有政大學生敢在這邊打吧!!)



還記得Boconni的Andrea說他想買something cheap in Taiwan,

我說他可以在夜市買到,或是到公館、士林去買(他們會搭捷運了),

不過事後問他,他卻都沒甚麼買,因為他說他不是想買某些sneakers或是T-shirts,

而是他想買cheap but fake......這有甚麼意思嗎,怪咖一個,要買不是買有紀念性的東西?

買假貨是要帶回去義大利,聲稱台灣是fake-maker嗎??



接下來的後面幾天,就任由他們各自上課囉...

(該Bonini上課時,所有人變得超認真,剛來沒戴眼鏡的都戴上了......)

2008/07/22

Ciao! Bocconi - 3



(S&P亞洲區負責人,殷先生)

這趟淡水之旅因為Kalmaegi所以延至下午開始,

早在出發之前的兩天,我們就收好款項也說明不退還(因為要訂餐廳),

雖然有說明大家參予與否是optional,

但28位Bocconi學生中,仍有21位參加。

而當日,因為颱風加上他們有人要"念書"(I supposed they wanna more sleep.)

所以,下午我們幾個本地生就先去淡水喝個下午茶,

然後再去淡水站接她們用晚餐。





(Gledis似乎很怕吃到腸子類的東西...一直問我這是甚麼、那是甚麼)

晚上六點的集合時間一到,

他們人來得很稀稀落落,21個人分兩匹集合,

先在淡水出口那邊閒晃、照相、哈根菸,

然後再搭公車前往"小英的故事"(裡頭的擺設就是古早的台灣社會家庭、教室)



(萬姐正在招待Valentina等人)

上公車造成許多台灣民眾的恐慌,

因為開始想起熱鬧的義大利文~~~

還有人以為自己上錯公車,怎麼被這麼多金髮碧眼的aliens包圍

到了餐廳,享用晚餐之後,咦!!有七個有繳錢的人打電話通知在場的朋友,

他們說,現在要過來了.......心裡除了覺得困擾之外,又擔心他們搭錯公車,

幸好,他們順利地與我們會和,不過又開始問起晚餐的事情,

此時已經八點多了(明明約六點集合咧!!!)

簡單來說,28位學生有21位繳錢,淡水站接他們的時候剛好21位;

有7位沒繳錢但先混進來,另有7位繳了錢但是遲到,

我們只好請他們自己處理"錢"的事情。





(整車都是義大利人,畫面中的帥哥左邊是Federico,右邊是Alessendro)

接著,前往漁人碼頭,所以,又有一部公車被義式外星人占據......

到了漁人碼頭,大家就開始遊走,



(我用很爛的數位相機拍的......The Fishman Wharf)

遲到的那7位外星人也得以享用晚餐,

有的人拍照、聊天、玩投籃機(沒想到,這是他們最喜歡的local game)

大概快11點時,大家也累了,所以就分別離開,

不過用晚餐的那群人想晚點走,所以我們就提醒他們在原本的地方等公車,

可以回到淡水站,但是不要超過12點,因為這樣就沒有接駁車了~



(開始忘情的跳起舞來,外國人文化果然不同,好玩也可以摟摟抱抱)

我和Angela先帶一群人走先,

後來接到Karen的電話,說有"R同學"抱怨我們不讓他跟剛剛那群吃晚餐的人留下來...

我的天啊,又是一場language misunderstanding

所以"R同學"就決定在淡水站等那7位不匆不忙的外星人...

2008/07/21

Ciao! Bocconi - 2



(第一天初來乍到的全體人員,裡面有我啊XD")

第一周接待他們的感覺,

在義大利的學制是三年的大學、兩年的研究所,

基本上,他們是年輕的一群小朋友(這是就心態上),

雖然他們的外表都很成熟......

感覺上是每況愈下,或許是因為態度上所呈現出來的樣子吧!!

前三天的課程,早上是由本地的講師介紹他們各自實務的工作經驗,

包含了了Venture Capital和Private Equity;

but, 他們不感興趣(或許對於裡面學法預或管理的人來說,太痛苦了)

下午,則是介紹一些中國與台灣文化、政治上的介紹與差異,

but, 有些人已感覺無聊,偷偷溜出去6F其他地方翹課了...



或許對於世界上第九強國的人來說,

中國文化或東方文化比較不如他們感興趣,

畢竟,我們自己也西化的很深,

他們的前一站又是殖民西化極深的香港,

怪會有Bocconi學生第一天來就問說:Where's the most famous night club here?



(第一天來就問夜店在哪的R同學)



當然,夏日移地學院,這是我們字面上的理解,

但實際上,對於"學生"來說,可能是比較重要的。

只不過,或許大多數的小朋友(我必須說包含我看過的本地學生),

他們不太擅長伺機而動吧...

對於一個Foreigner來說,不是應該去是讓異國文化和自己有些衝突,

然後得到一點點心得和想法,由衷地去欣賞,不是嗎?

Maybe what I think is too idealistic.





撇開上課不談,玩的部分倒是很投入,想當然爾......

像是台北101、碧潭、中正紀念堂、Room18等地方,

必須說,大學部的支援人手比我們這些老人更擅長「招待」他們。

我們負責的是周末的去淡水的行程,

不過因為颱風來襲,所以行程改至下午開始。

然而,第一周的第四天開始,由他們的熟男教授Stafeno Bonini來上課;

當然對她們來說是很「硬」的,他們還得分組討論和演戲,

去說服彼此來投資我這項"創投事業"。

所以,周六中午去會館接他們時,才知道,他們剛剛起來吃早餐,

有些人還在睡(聽說凌晨三、四點還在旅館別處聊天啊~之類的)

或許是因為我們的助教Jean希望好好接待他們,

要求幫忙的學生設計好一連串的"課後"活動,

不過顯然地,他們比較偏好自由行動,然後不要太準時...

加上文化上的差異,晚上六點的晚餐,對他們來說"too early",

他們說那個時候是tea time!!



我的老天爺啊...這Buddy Program會怎麼演下去呢?

下回分解...

2008/07/14

Ciao! Bocconi - 1





Today is the first day to receive the students from Bocconi.

As I mentioned before, they are all first grade of their master degree in Italy.

Not to mention that the Italian are one branch of heritage of the Latins,

most of them have a high nose, gray with blue eyes, and solid figures on their face.

Though they are Italian, they can speak fluent English with a little Italian accent.





(正在跟我聊義大利高等教育的Ilya,是一位聰明的學生!!)

The first student I knew today is Paolo,

and some of my classmates said that his face in profile is like the actor of Miranda's husband in Sex And The City.

Paolo was a nice guy, making himself stylish, and had a good chatting and interaction with me.

I had to say that most of them knew how to stylishly dress and make-up.

Compared to them, local students seemed kind of DRAB.

Alberto looked knowledgeable and talked in a soft way.

Mattia, was a two-seats far away from me so that we did not have deeper talk.

Valentina, a really shy girl majoring in law, was of composition but looked tired and was seated by my left side.

Ilya, a white nice guy, who shared the life and education in Italy with me tried his best to take challenge on his degree.



   

("熟男系"教授Bonini & "動感攀岩高手"助教Laura) (我們上課的教室:寶來的白先生所捐的!!)

It was a exhausting day for me to receive them all day cause I had to wake up earlier 

and gave my hands to colleague who joined in this reception campaign;

besides, some local graduates and me had to take courses with them.

Later after the class, I rushed to book the seats in 公館 for the hot-pot dinner next week.

Moreover, I rode my motor to 大坪頂 to make sure their hotel.



That's the first day as a war starts.

Let me call it a day!!!

I will make up the pics of some foreigners for the blog later.



(第一天在水岸餐廳用餐的情形,大家還真是一派和諧呢!!)