Bliss English Club

Date: Sep. 12,2020

Host: Wisely

Topic: “Adventure in New Zealand”

Attendees: Andy Liang, Summer, Stanley, Wisely, Mike Young, Jeff, Uncle Ting, Ellen, Annie, Willy, Emma

Photo link: https://photos.app.goo.gl/5uLhzhwMJXJByHo16

Meeting started…

As usual, Wisely presented his meeting by listing his meeting in chorological order.

2020 Adventure in New Zealand

2019 Hang Son Doong

2018 Black Mirrors

2017 How to prepare to go to a mountain

2015 LGBT Issue

2014 Joined Bliss English Club, started from first meeting – “Happy” by Peter

We are awed by this well-listed hosting history in chronological way for self-improvement.

Where are the movie scenes taken?

In the warm-up, he called us attention to some scenes from “The Load of the Rings”

, “The Chronicles of Narnia” series, and told us most are shot in New Zealand.

What is the difference in national flags between England and New Zealand? 1841-1947 colonized by UK, same as UK’s, after independence, their flag takes the UK’s flag smaller on the left and southern cross stars on the right.

The country—its location and map

He told us that to balance the economic importance between South Island and north island, New Zealand moved their capital from Auckland (North) to Wellington (in between both islands).

Size compared with Taiwan

He put Taiwan in the map of New Zealand, clearly about one-fifth of its size.

It is famous for being coined as living Geographical Classroom such as Glacier, Bay, Mountain, Plain, Hill, Subtropical Forest, Volcano, Coast Line and Beach.

Native (Maoli) called New Zealand as Aotearoa-land of the Long White Cloud. New Zealand only has 4 million while Japan130 million in terms of same size. But the country has over 20% national reserve, and encourage foreigners to work as their environmental volunteers.

Developed Country

UN defines Human Development Index criteria such as a long and healthy life, education index, a decent standard of living. In 2018, New Zealand is ranked 14.

Environmental Priority

They maintain and protect their environment because the citizens have environmental awareness like to eradicating exotic species, buy organic food and more than 71% citizens are willing to pay higher price to buy sustainable products. Other than that, government put their efforts on first nuclear-free nation, 3R policy, resource management Act in 1991. Most impressive of all, enterprises evocate ECNZ and ecotourism.

Kiwi—the word they call themselves and one kind of the bird in New Zealand.

Interaction with sea and nature

They determine to protect nature, build barefoot culture which reflect the spirit of looking for simple life.

The values of respecting cultural diversity

In 2013, it became first legitimate same -sex marriage in Asia.synronize with some Europe countries

Excited Activities includes canopy tour, waitomo glowworm caves, skydiving, glacier trekking, gondola, and luge in which Wisely showed us the pictures and thrilling videos he and his wife took in New Zealand.

Crisis Management

He told us when encountering car damage, people should remain calm. Before we go, we need to bring our international driving license and original driving license for rent cars, signing car rental contract and bring back the receipt.

The final picture is Bradrona Activity aiming for raising a fund for women’s cancer care. It is eye-catching and successful campaign!

Attendees’ feedback:

@Wisely I love the way you proceed the meeting. Interestingly and clearly compare NZ and TWN, national flags between UK and NZ. Eco-awareness driven by bottom-up brings NZ to success. Very impressive to watch the videos taken when in skydiving and luge exciting activities. The way they eradicate the exotic species is so determined. Nature protection and energy saving are everyone's responsibility, starting doing from our daily lives, and buying habits which will change the society and the world. Thank you again for the spirit-spread.

@Wisely

When one becomes more knowledgeable, that’s because of you.  But beyond that, you are braver. You dare to experience it doing skydiving.  Your knowledge plus experience are making you a “super power”.   Your presentation was awesome.  It was an enjoyable Saturday gathering.

Along with all the decent comments and feedback from Bro Ting and Bro Jeff and all peers, Wisely has led off making this meetup an interesting and thought-provoking one. 

“Are we feeling exotic?” Maybe yes.  But when we reach out to get a hang of something and become aware of team spirit, we become part of the community.  That’s the worth-praising & positive effect of Bliss’.

@Wisely Dear Wisely,

just love the way you made your honeymoon trip so differently by retrospection everything thing you saw in NZ, including their life style, the way they respect and connecting to nature and how their citizenship and awareness toward protecting and sustaining their environment. (and this the power of citizenships making their government change accordingly)

The comparison you made between NZ and Taiwan from all above respects do arouse not only our curiosity but also our awareness on these important subjects you found in NZ.

We've bear in our mind that these amazing landscapes and exciting activities all count on US, we human, our proactive action Right Now, Right from Ourselves toward our environment.

Thank you, Wisely, for such a great journey sharing with us, physically and mentally!!

Thank you all!

Thanks for this interesting club! I learnt a lot and enjoyed the friendship here.

Host’s feedback

Thanks for all the praise you guys give to me; they transfer into the motivation to make me keep moving forward next time.

General reflection:

We are so happy to taste chocolate, cookies brought by Summer, a friend of Uncle Ting and glad to have our new Blisser, Andy share his cookies with us. It is really a resourceful meeting ever. Stay tune!