[轉錄][分享] Emma給大家的一封信
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作者: hsnu90542 (嘿!該你了) 看板: NTU
標題: [分享] Emma給大家的一封信
時間: Mon Jan 17 23:42:47 2011
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我並不想紅，麻煩大家了!!
Dear lovely Taiwanese students at NTU.
I am in a very sad and frustrated position right now.
I have just finished five AMAZING months and NTU and during my stay in Taiwan
I have met a lot of wonderful, amazing people.
I always told my friends in Denmark that Taiwan has some of the nicest people
in the world.
And it is true! I have come to love your amazing country a LOT!
In the beginning of September I moved into the Chang Shing dorm at NTU since
I wanted to live close to the other exchange students and have a social life.
I am a very sociable person and I have previously lived in Australia, France,
London and Saudi-Arabia where I have shared apartments and rooms with all
sorts of people.
When I lived in Australia I even shared an apartment with Chinese people.
And they are still some of my lovely friends today.
The first day that I moved into the dorm I wanted to call my father to tell
him that I had arrived safely and that I was doing well.
I called my father around 3pm in the afternoon in my room in the dorm.
Two minutes into the conversation I hear a knocking on my door.
I tell my father to ‘hold on’ so that I could open.
When I open the door I see my new neighbor asking me to “lower my voice so
that she could practice her French”.
I told her that it was very hard for me to lower my voice as it was just a
normal speaking voice.
Anyways, I still did and accepted her complaint.
Ever since this day, every time I would Skype, dry my hair, listen to music
(I would NEVER listen to techno and never after 10pm or before 8am), she
would complain.
I am just a normal girl trying to live my life and I did ONLY normal things.
I have also been travelling a lot during my stay in Taiwan so I was hardly in
my room at all.
But whenever I was, I always felt absolutely horrible.
I knew that if my phone rang, I could not pick it up because that would mean
that I would have a ‘knocking’ on my wall.
Even if my new friends called me to ask if I wanted to come down for dinner I
was afraid of picking up my phone.
Therefore I wrote my neighbor a letter in September, telling her that I think
that I hoped she would appreciate the fact that I have to make phone calls
and that because of the time difference I would sometimes have to call at
7-8pm etc.
This letter can be found below:
http://0rz.tw/ir5Oo
She has read the letter but she gave me back the earplugs that I had bought
for her.
Throughout my semester in Taipei, I have been away almost every other weekend
either travelling around Taiwan or to other Asian countries.
But I always hated coming back to the dorm as I knew that I could never feel relaxed in my
room.
Therefore, I wanted to ask some of the other exchange students if they had
similar problems and I sent them this email:
Me: 19 September 2010 at 11:53
GIRLS!!!
I have to ask you if you know what the rules are regarding talking in your
own room... It can't be true that my neighbour has to knock on my door every
time I skype with someone. It's not like it's loud at all. It's just a normal
conversation... I can't imagine it is illegal to speak in your own room???
Have you had any problems with your neighbours, or am I just super unlucky
regarding my lucky pick next-door ;o) ????
I wanna find out if she's actually allowed to tell me not to speak (isn't
that a human right) ;o))) ??? But I wanna ask you before I ask in the
reception. No need to create a drama. She just ANNOYS me ;)
See ya later for a late dinner ???
xoxo
Michelle Heaton: 19 September 2010 at 11:58 Reply‧ Report
Hahaha, I think that u just are super unlucky. I skype all the time and play
music and everything and no one has told me anything! Of course u should be
allowed to talk in the phone or skype in your own room!
I am definitely up for a later dinner, maybe at 19.30?
Sofia Hansson: 19 September 2010 at 12:06 Reply‧ Report
hahaha OMG, i just met my neighbour, she is actually the birthday girl that's
why i haven't had any complains... Im also playing the music all the time or
wathever... I guesse there should be a rule or something that allows u to
make noises untill 10pm and then to be quiet, u should ask downstairs, but
she seeems so annoying!
Or we should find her a boyfriend so that she can actually get out of that
room and get a life... hahaha (ok that was me just being mean! sorry!
Yeah sure lets meet for dinner, but not to early if thats okay because im
suppose to skype... so 7.30 or 8pm seems perfect!
Me: 19 September 2010 at 12:12
Pheeeeeeeeeew. Thank God. It seems like I'm not super crazy. I feel like I'm
doing something wrong every time I skype etc.
She has never complained when I listen to music but every time I speak she
knocks on my door and asks me to lower the volume - and it isn't loud at
all!!!! I feel like a prisoner and I feel guilty every time I skype and I
don't like nor want that!!!
So thank you girls for saying that you are doing the same. I have the
impression that she is just studying (her French apparently) ALL the time.
She's one of those 5am - 11pm student.
Maybe I should ask Steven to pretend he works here and tell her that it is
allowed to speak in your own room (what a great plan that is)! :D And of
course after 10pm, noise it is a different story ;o)
8PM for dinner = perfect!!!
See ya downstairs ladies ♥
Cher Lloyd: 19 September 2010 at 13:26 Reply‧ Report
so sorry, I'm late.
I do not have any problem with my neighbours, even if I 'm always making
noise. Indeed, I can hear one of them singing sometimes. It is quite fun. So
sorry, but I think you are really unlucky.
Good luck.
See at 8 pm
These mails clearly show that I was just having a very unlucky pick of
neighbor.
I always told the reception about this also as well as the management of the
dorm.
However, their reaction was always: “yes, she is very sensitive”.
Nothing else ever happened.
And I have been informed that last year, another poor girl living next to my
neighbor was the one being bullied by my neighbor constantly knocking on her
door asking stuff like ‘where does this water sound came from’ as she wanted
to know who was taking a shower.
This shows that my neighbor, indeed, is very sensitive.
But that does NOT give her the right to knock on walls late at night and
disturb other people.
Throughout the last two months of my stay I started to hear her scream in her
room.
Even when I was super quiet in my own room.
I do not know why she would scream, but it did sound like something was wrong
in there.
I also informed the reception about these screams and knocking, and all I
received was smiles and a nod.
One Sunday afternoon I was skyping with my old grandmother for maybe 20
minutes.
Throughout this whole conversation my neighbor was CONSTANTLY knocking on my
wall so much that I could not concentrate on what my poor, old grandmother was
saying.
I also informed the reception once again and the management and the response
were none-existing.
I did not lower my voice when I spoke to my grandmother as she has a bad
hearing and because I was only talking with a normal speaking voice.
As revenge my neighbor woke me up at 4am that same night by knocking on her
wall right next to my bed.
I usually do not wake up easily but this night I did, as it was a CLEAR attempt
to wake me up.
She knocked for maybe 15-20 seconds.
This left me awake for 2 hours as my heart was beating SO fast and I was so
angry and frustrated.
Once again I told the reception.
Every time I had some of these incidents and knocking on walls I would ALWAYS
tell the other exchange students.
They have all been following my story throughout the whole stay.
They all thought that it sounded crazy and wondered why nothing happened from
the management’s side.
So everyone was aware of all of this.
Unfortunately, my Chinese is VERY poor so I could not post about my thoughts
and frustrations on the PPT page.
I could only do Facebook and tell my friends in Taiwan about it.
The 19th of September I sent this message to Steven who is an amazing guy and
friend to all of us:
http://0rz.tw/tjCeD
Then on Friday the 14th of January 2011, I had been out shopping with my
friend to buy presents for the exchange coordinators as we think they have
done an amazing job for all of us exchange students throughout our stay.
I came back to the dorm around 3pm and I opened my door as QUIETLY as possible
because I knew that if I my neighbor would hear me come home, she would
knock, AGAIN! S
o I entered slowly and I was sitting on my bed on my computer not making ANY
noise at all.
No Skype and no music. Still, I hear my neighbor knock a couple of times even
though, she did not know if I was in my room, or not.
But all of a sudden I see her face looking through my window.
So my neighbor had jumped out her window to look through MY window and invading
MY privacy to see if I was in my room so that she could start knocking.
I yelled at her and told her to “GO AWAY!” At this point I was VERY upset,
SAD and frustrated.
I went straight to my friend’s room and asked her if I could please sleep in
her room, as I could not live in my room anymore.
Also, I told the reception about it and their response was: “I am very sorry
to hear about this!”
That same night on Friday the 14th of January, some of us exchange students
were having a couple of beers in the common room since it was the last night
for some people.
We are talking about my neighbor and my friends are so annoyed about it all as
well.
I went up to my room to pick up my jacket which only took two minutes.
AGAIN, she knocked on my wall and I went down to tell the others.
So we agreed on that we should go to my neighbor’s room and knock on her door
and window and ask her why she would do this kind of stuff to people.
So six of us entered the female dorm around midnight and went to room 905.
Our aim was NEVER to threaten anyone; it was never to hurt anyone, or the
like.
We simply wanted to ask her why she did what she did.
Since the dorm did not do anything, we thought we should all talk to her.
So we entered my room and one of my friends jump out the window and knocks
slowly on her window saying “Excuse me, can you please open the window. We
want to talk to you,” nothing else.
She of course does not open.
Furthermore, another guy knocks on her door and tells her to stop harassing
others in the middle of the night and that she needs to treat others the way
she wants to be treated.
He said: “Hey there, open the door!! Do you really think that it is funny to
knock on others wall every day and night? If you want to study in total
silence, please go to the library, people have right to live their own life
in normal day time! She is going to leave in a few days, Why dont you just
let her go????!!!!" We even have pictures of the knocking on the window which
CLEARLY shows that is it NOTHING compared to the reconstruction that was on
TV Saturday the 15th of January. I have attached the picture of the knocking
beneath. Please notice how the hand is knocking silently with just one finger.
http://0rz.tw/MEJ1E
http://0rz.tw/RwN5D
There were NEVER ANY death threats at this night.
No one mentioned the word ‘death’ and no one wanted to hurt anyone.
All the exchange students are some of the nicest and most lovely people you
will ever meet and none of us would ever hurt a mouse.
We are all very normal people who see the best in everything.
We simply wanted to ask my neighbor WHY she was constantly annoying other
people around her since we do NOT think that this is okay!
YES, it was WRONG to walk into the dorm at night.
But in our countries we do not separate male and female and we probably did not
think of it to be as wrong as the local people do.
To us, it is just a dorm. We totally understand and respect the local rules and
we apologize for breaking this rule about boys entering the dorm after 11pm.
When we walked past the reception we just said that we would be back in 2mins.
We did not make any other excuses saying that we had to pack and carry stuff,
or the like.
We simply said: “we will be back in 2mins!” and entered the dorm.
After this we left the dorm and some people went to bed and some went out.
The next day we wake up hearing that someone has created an untrue story on a
local forum.
Since none of us speak Chinese, we do not have the possibility of interacting
and tell our side of the story.
So instead we all of a sudden receive HORRIBLE messages on Facebook, phone
calls and the like.
Some of these messages are very childish and it was clear to us that the local
students of NTU did not know the real truth at all.
We were all very sad that judgments had been taken without hearing the story
from the other side.
Remember! There are ALWAYS two sides of every story.
Whether it is a couple that breaks up or it is a person that gets fired from
work.
ALWAYS talk to both sides before making a judgment!
At this point we are all having a meeting with the management at the school
and we inform them about our version of the story.
They understand our situation and frustration and listen to us.
Still they say that it is hard for them to stop the false allegations on the
local PPT.
We are all very sad that we cannot tell our side of the story and instead we
have to wait for the school to do something.
At night we hear that 200 people turn up at the dorm to demonstrate and still
none of these people know the real truth.
Now we have given an interview to a newspaper and we all hope that the lovely
students at NTU will understand that this is a very sad situation for us all.
We came to Taiwan to learn about your wonderful country, smiles and people.
And we have had an AMAZING time. Taiwan really is fantastic!
I also want to add that Steven Chiu is one of the friendliest guys you will
ever meet.
He has done so much for us all and he is the one who helped us when we could
not find our way home, wanted to go to Carrefour or other things.
Steven has not done anything wrong at all and he only deserves good things in
life.
Steven has introduced us all to your lovely country and he has done A LOT to
inform us about everything that we need to know about Taiwan.
He has been our link to a lot of things.
Everything that he has done is simply amazing!!!
We are just sad that we had to leave like this and we hope that you all have
read our story and will believe that we are all good people who would never
hurt or harm anyone.
If I had not lived in my room, it would have been someone else.
I was just unlucky and any of you would have gone crazy with a constant
knocking on the wall every time you dry your hair, call your parents or listen
to your favorite music in the afternoon for a couple of hours at a low level.
These are things that should be legal and essential in any dorm room.
Of course people should respect each other, but as I sad earlier, I have always
lived with other people in very different countries, and I never had any
problems with anyone, EVER!
They are all still my friends today!
Thank you for your understanding and please create peace.
The world is so beautiful and we need to make it more beautiful!
Keep smiling and thank you for reading!!! I love Taiwan!!!
Ps: Finally, I want to add that I am a very normal girl who loves all my
friends and family. I have visited Asia MANY times and I am in love.
Furthermore, I have a LOT of friends all over the world from England, to the
US, to Malaysia, and now Taiwan. I am positive, open-minded and very easy to
talk to and I see the best in everybody.
My home country, Denmark, is one of the safest and nicest places in the
world. Last year we were nominated ‘The Happiest Nation in the World’. We
are all very open-minded and for the Danes, Taiwan and Asia is very
interesting.
We are big fans of your culture here in Taiwan.
Danish people are as quiet, peaceful and sweet as the Taiwanese!
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