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学 海 无 涯 PAGE PAGE 1 Unit 01 Working Holiday Abroad How My Working Holiday Changed Me Hayley 1 Now that I have been home for a while and have had time to reflect on my working holiday in Vancouver, I’ve thought a lot about who I was before I left for Canada and who I am presently. 1 我回到家已经有一段时间了，有空回顾在温哥华的打工度假经历。对于去加拿大之前的自我和如今的自我，我思考了很多。 2 Prior to leaving, I was not in a good place. I had suffered a lot of personal blows and felt emotionally stretched. I lost my grandma, my job and had two car crashes in five months. I needed something to change in my life, and that came in the form of a working holiday visa. 2 出发前，我的境况不好。 个人生活上经受了许多打击，精神压力很大。 我失去了我的祖母，我的工作，5个月里遭遇两起车祸。 我需要生活得到改变，于是便有了打工度假签证这回事。 3 In less than three months I filled out the necessary paperwork, booked my plane ticket and fled Brisbane. I spent fifteen months living and working in Vancouver, Canada and eighteen months in total away from Australia. This is how that working holiday changed me and my life. 3 在不到三个月的时间里，我填写了所需的表格，订好了机票，逃离布里斯班。 我在加拿大的温哥华居住工作了15个月，离开澳大利亚总共18个月。 下面就谈谈打工度假给我以及我的生活所带来的改变。 I Grew (Like a Beanstalk) 我成长了（如同童话里的那棵豆茎一般飞快地成长） 4 I have always been a quiet, shy person and meeting people and making friends has always been a constant struggle. I’ve always had a few friends but never a large social circle. Then I moved to Vancouver and began working at Starbucks. My co-workers were so welcoming and it wasn’t long before we were meeting up after work for dinner, ladies night and sightseeing excursions. I taught them an Australian word of the day and they helped me understand the Canadian lingo, eh? Oh, how I laughed whenever someone ended their sentence with those two letters. 4 我向来是一个安静、害羞的人，同人见面、交朋友总是非常艰难。 我倒是一直有那么几个朋友，但从来没有一个大的社交圈子。 后来我搬到温哥华，开始在星巴克工作。 我的同事们非常友好，很快我们就在下班后一起吃饭、光顾女士之夜、短途观光旅行。 我每天教他们一个澳大利亚英语中有趣的词，他们帮助我理解加拿大英语中特有的 “eh?” 。 每当有人在句末加上这两个字母时，我都会忍俊不禁。 5 My time in Vancouver was the most social in my life and for once I didn’t hate it. I enjoyed seeing new places and doing n