Read ten thousand books and travel ten thousand miles; only by uniting knowledge and action can one broaden one's horizons.

I was so happy to take this course. After starting university, there are few opportunities to go out and do field surveys like this, much like the outdoor education trips in junior high and high school. Since my freshman year, I have felt that most courses are based on "introductions", with relatively few courses involving hands-on work and going out to investigate for yourself. This kind of experience is truly hard to come by, and these reflections have gradually come to me since I began studying in the College of Engineering. What we learn is mostly theoretical courses, and when we really have to do hands-on work, we actually still get nervous and do not know where to start. If there were many opportunities to experience things or do internships, that would really be very important for us.

From junior high to high school, I learned a lot of knowledge from geography textbooks. Much of it was about the names of landforms, the reasons they formed, and what results they would cause, and all of it was verified one by one today. My realization was: "Wow! So this is what the textbook was talking about. So what I learned as a child is no longer just like myths and legends, something you just listen to and forget." This is probably the thought that touched me most. If it were not for today's professional interpreter, and if it were not for Teacher Yang Hung-yu, who accompanied us and worked hard all day today, I probably would never have had the chance to understand nature this deeply, this beautiful land. Or rather, I had seen it, but I had no idea at all, because I had no preparation before the trip, I had no deep background in geography, and I had no teacher to guide me. But today was completely different, because I was very lucky. I happened to choose this course, and I also happened to have the chance to meet such a wonderful and professional interpreter. I want to say here, and deep in my heart, that you have worked hard, and thank you.

Finally, I want to speak to this land of nature. Over the whole day on Sunday, although some terrain was a bit rugged, I could still feel that this is the power of nature. We should uphold an attitude of accepting it, getting used to it, and enjoying it, rather than pointlessly resisting it. The sea and the rivers feel to me as if they are invincibly fierce. They have incomparable vitality, not to mention erosive power. This also reminds me of that idiom -- dripping water wears through stone. Water can break through almost everything in front of it. Perhaps all they need is time. We must respect them, rather than only resisting foolishly. Living with water is now an urgent matter for us. At this moment, I also thought of something the teacher said, that over in Danei someone had said: "Can we be a little dumber?" I think this really needs some careful thought. Perhaps sometimes we really are too clever, or rather, too self-righteously clever, and outsmarted ourselves. All things truly have their own reasons for existing. We are merely a species that happened to appear in this period, and by learning the spirit of mutually beneficial symbiosis, perhaps we would all get along a little better.

BY Classmate Xiao Zhuo

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