The earliest moment is when you think it's too late. 觉得为时已晚的时候，恰恰是最早的时候。
十九. A Misunderstanding
In general, spoken statements are the major way of communication, but body language and facial expressions also have such kinds of function. For example,yawning means being not interested and turning one’s back to someone or swinging your fist shows your anger. But what those gestures really mean issubjective in different cultures. Thus, misunderstandings happen now and then in today’s world of cultural crossroads.
Once, representing the Adults’ Education Association, I went to the airport to meet an official of high rank from Columbia and take him to his dormitory and then to thecanteen. After the flight arrived, I saw a man looking around curiously. So Iapproached to greet him. He suddenly dashed to hug me and kissed me on bothcheeks. As a young girl, I felt truly embarrassed and put up my hands to defendmyself. His false smile told me that he had lost face.
Later, I received a cassette from him, in which he recorded his apology. On hearing that Columbians were more likely to kiss others, I soon felt at ease.
二十. A Unique Theme Park
As soon as our shuttle got close to the theme park by the freeway, everyone came to life and put on cloth sneakers in advance for an outing. Our translator paid for theadmission, and we started enjoying the various attractions in the sunlight.
According to the travel brochure, this unique park is famous for its well preservedminority culture. We experienced many deeds of the early settlers, such as swinging across rivers, hunting creatures in the jungle, or taking part in swords fightingtournaments.
This park is also famous for its wooden souvenirs. Whichever we bought in the centralshop was made of wood, and wherever we went we could see minority carpenters working. They made wooden tools, wooden cartoon figures, wooden athletic products and so on. They even built a huge wooden engine with a length of 20 metres, whichwas modeled after a real one.
This theme park is really a fantasy amusement park. No wonder it has become thebrand of local tourism.
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