It’s been a while since I’ve made a vlog and a lot has happened ever since

從我開始當影音部落客之後已經過了一陣子了，發生了很多事情

so I was kinda indecisive about what to share today.

所以我很猶豫今天該和各位分享些什麼好

My life is so meaningful.

我的人生真有意義

But among the many things that I could talk about in my vlog today,

不過在這麼多我今天可以講的事情之中

there’s one particular thing that I must talk about, and it just happened last week.

我必須要講一件特別的事，而且上個禮拜才剛發生！

First of all, I need to provide you guys some background information.

首先，我需要給各位一些背景資訊

For all of you out there who doesn't know yet, I live on top of a mountain.

給還不知道的人聽，我住在山頂上

It’s true. It takes at least 30 minutes for me to get to more... civilized and populated areas.

這是真的，我得花至少30分鐘去到比較文明跟有人住的地方

There’s some pros and cons to this, first of all it’s much more quiet up here and second of all we never get any floods.

這有優點也有缺點，第一這裡安靜許多，第二我們從來沒有淹過水

The one time we did get a flood was the time when I broke the pipe in the bathroom

有一次我們真的淹水是我弄破了浴室的水管

and ended up destroying all of (our) expensive furniture,

最後把我們家裡貴重的家具都弄壞了

which I should not be talking about.

我好像不應該講這個

On the flip side, well, here's your story for today!

相反來說，這是今天要跟各位說的故事！

With a residence so embraced in Mother Nature, I sometimes find some things that are not so typical

身為一個處在大自然中的人，我有時會發現一些不太尋常的事

in a regular bedroom. Well come to think of it, not so typical in any kind of room.

...在一般的房間。仔細想想，在任何形式的房間都不正常

So last week when I was in front of my desk minding my own business doing stuff,

上禮拜當我在我書桌前想著我工作要做的東西

I heard some buzzing right there, the right hand side of my ceiling.

我聽到一些嗡嗡聲，在天花板的右手邊方向

That’s where I have my overhead light and I call that place “the spot”,

那裡有我的吊燈，我叫它"那個地點"

you’ll see why in a moment. Now what I saw was a dozen of winged termites, so termites with wings,

你等一下就會知道為什麼了。我看到了很多飛蟻...就是有著翅膀的白蟻

that are just flying around the light. So no biggie, they're there, they're not bothering me, just buzzing away.

牠門在燈的周圍飛來飛去。不過沒什麼大不了的，他們沒有打擾到我，只是發出嗡嗡聲

They're happy, I'm happy. So, I just went on and continued with my work.

他們開心，我也開心。所以，我就繼續做我的工作

Then my sister came barging into my room like it's the end of the world and

然後我妹妹闖進我房間，好像世界末日一樣

told me that she also had “a dozen” of winged termites in her room.

告訴我她房間也有很多飛蟻！

So I came up with a brilliant idea,

所以我想出了一個聰明的點子

I was like, why not we open the lights in our corridor and open our doors,

我在想，為什麼不打開走廊的燈然後打開房門呢

then the termites in our room will be attracted to the light in the corridor,

房間裡飛蟻就會被走廊的燈光吸引

voi la! Problem solved.

你看！問題解決！

What a brilliant plan it was, until... about 10 seconds later.

好一個聰明絕頂的計畫....直到大約10秒鐘過後

So I went out there, being the genius I thought I was, and turned on all the lights in the corridor.

所以我去到外面，自以為自己是天才，把走廊上所有的燈都開啟

And for a moment, my genius plan did work, our “dozen” of termites in the room did fly out into the corridor.

一會兒過後，我的天才計畫的確奏效了，一堆飛蟻的確飛到了走廊

But like I said, it only took me about 10 seconds to realise how dumb I was.

但就像我剛剛說的，這只花了10秒就讓我了解我有多麼愚蠢

So at the end of the corridor is our semi-open balcony and as soon as we turned on the lights,

走廊的末端是我們半開放式的陽台，當我們一開燈

we saw that there were also a dozen termites just flying around at the end of the corridor in the balcony.

我們就看見了走廊末端的陽台也有一堆飛蟻

And my sister was like, holy shit holy shit you shouldn’t have done that.

我妹妹就說: 該死！該死！你不該這樣做的

And so I looked to where my sister was pointing and I saw a swarm,

然後我看了我妹妹所指的方向，那裡有一大群飛蟻

an enormous swarm of termites just flying into the corridor.

超級大的一群白蟻飛入了走廊

I kid you not, it was like hundreds and hundreds of them and they made a big, threatening, buzzing noise.

我沒開玩笑，牠們感覺有成千上百隻，他們發出了非常大而且嚇人的嗡嗡聲

I was half expecting it to form into the bug devil in the Constantine movie and attack me or something.

我幾乎快覺得牠們要變成驅魔神探中的昆蟲惡魔了，然後會攻擊我或是對我做其他事

What made it worse was that our walls, they're white. Guess what?

更糟的是，我們的牆壁...是白色的，猜猜看發生了什麼？

That just emphasized how fricking enormous the swarm was.

它只更凸顯了那該死的飛蟻有多大群

So I shut the lights as fast as I could and me and my sis,

所以我盡我最快速度把燈關掉，然後我和我妹妹

we were squatting there pondering about the meaning of life for like a full 5 minutes.

我們蹲在那思考人生的意義長達5分鐘

So eventually, we thought of a solution, we're gonna light a candle

最後我們終於想出了解決辦法，我們要點了根蠟燭

and put it outside the window so that the light will lure out the termites.

把它放在窗戶外面，讓蠟燭的燈把飛蟻引誘過去

You see, this is the time when being me sucks, while my sis can provide the candle, provide the lighter, provide the love and support,

你看看，這時讓我覺得我好不想當自己，當我妹妹拿出蠟燭，點亮蠟燭，還給我愛和支持

guess who has to go through the devil-possessed swarm of termites that threatens to eat you alive

猜猜看是誰得通過被惡魔附身的一大群飛蟻，好像隨時會把你活吞

and put that freaking candle outside the window? The elder brother.

然後在窗戶外面放那該死的蠟燭？就是哥哥......

My life is so meaningful.

我的人生真有意義

And so I did. And the plan worked. The next morning we found out that there was like,

我完成了之後，計畫也的確奏效了，隔天早上我們發現...

a golfball-sized hole up on our ceiling and that's where all the termites were coming through from.

我們的天花板上有個高爾夫球大小的洞，那就是所有飛蟻的來源

So that’s what happened to me last weekend. Cool story huh?

所以...這就是我上周末發生的事，很酷的故事吧？

I’m a big fan of nature, I really am, but I can’t say that I’m passionate about

我很喜愛大自然，我是真的喜愛，但我無法說我對它有熱情

nature coming barging into my room and scaring the crap out of me.

大自然闖進我的房間然後嚇了我一大跳

This is not the first time something like this happened though.

但這不是第一次發生像這樣的事

I’ve had beetles, bats, all kinds of strange stuff in my room before.

我之前遇過甲蟲、蝙蝠，還有各式各樣奇怪的東西在我房間

No I’m not talking about baseball bat "bat", I’m talking about Batman "bat".

我不是在說球棒喔！我在說蝙蝠俠的"蝙蝠"

It was when I was in high school, when I was again sitting in front of my desk minding my own business doing stuff,

這發生在我還在讀高中的時候，我也是一樣坐在我書桌前，想著我工作的東西

when I heard scratching noises from “the spot”, yeah, remember the spot? Yeah, that spot.

當我聽到"那個地點"發出刮擦的聲音，記得"那個地點"嗎？對！就是它

For some reason I only had my lamp on that night and what I saw in the spot

基於某些原因，我那晚只開了檯燈然後我看見"那個地點"

was this little tiny shade of shadow as it spread into a canvas and swooped down.

有一個小小的影子，然後它展開變成一大片，俯衝下來

I’m not gonna lie, I screamed like a little girl and charged right outta my room.

我不打算說謊，我像小女孩般尖叫並衝出房間

And no, I'm not gonna demonstrate.

歐不，我沒有要示範的意思

It turned out to be a baby bat and I hired my dad to capture it and after we captured it, we released it into the wild.

結果是一隻小蝙蝠，我僱用我爸去抓住牠，我們抓住牠後，就把牠放生到野外

So yeah. I live with bugs and bats, just the normal lifestyle, I guess.

所以...，我與蟲跟蝙蝠住在一起，這是很正常生活方式，我猜啦~

Ok so, I hope you guys enjoyed that little story of me, my house, my room, and sometimes my accidental companions.

希望你們喜歡這個我的小故事，我的房子，我的房間，還有有時我意外的夥伴

It's been a while since I vlogged so I think I'm gonna keep it a schedule,

我在YouTube是頻上記錄生活已經有一陣子了，所以我想應該要排個行程表

like once per month so that you guys can catch up on some of the interesting stories

像是每月一次，讓你們能聽到一些有趣的故事

that happened to me during this period of time.

近期發生在我身上的故事

And I've been really busy recently, I've been working on my website, renovating it.

我最近會非常忙碌，我正在經營、更新我的網站

I've been producing an online course, as you guys requested. So I've been pretty

我正在製作一個線上課程，依各位的需求，所以

packed in my schedule and I'm going to go visit a few campuses for speeches. Next week and the week after.

我的行程表會很滿，下禮拜和下下禮拜我將要去一些學校演講

So life has been pretty stuffed and meaningful for me and I hope you guys are doing well as well.

所以我覺得我的人生很忙碌而且有意義，希望你們也過得很好

So as always, right here you can see my previous video,

就像之前一樣，這裡你可以看到我之前的影片

right here you can listen to me on air on ICRT on VidTalk.

這裡你可以聽到我在ICRT的VidTalk講話

Right here is my website, it's not done yet, so when you click on it I'm not sure where it'll take you.

這裡是我的網站，還沒有完成，所以你點擊它，我不清楚它會帶你到什麼地方

But for future viewers, it might be done. So I hope you guys will like it when it is done.

不過未來可能就完成了！希望當他完成的時候你們會喜歡

Right up there is the subscription button, please subscribe to me if you want to hear more from me,

這裡是訂閱的按鈕，如果你想要聽更多的話，請訂閱我喔！

if you want to see more English vlogs, if you want to see me talk about English learning and basically just language in general.

如果你想要看更多的英語視頻，如果你想要聽我講關於英文學習，基本上就是語言方面

Or if you're just interested in me, and want to become a fan.

或如果你只是對我有興趣，想變成我的粉絲

Er, why would anyone want that? I don't know.

嗯......為什麼會有人想要？我不知道

So subscribe! And...as always, that is a wrap, thank you guys for watching and I'll catch you guys next time.

所以快訂閱吧！還有...就如之前，今天就到這邊！謝謝各位的觀賞，我們下次見！

See ya!

再見！

I said no demonstrations,

我說過不示範

but for those of you who stayed until the very end, I was like...

但...送給那些看到最後的觀眾...我當時就像這樣...

(screams like a little girl)

啊~~~~~