I am glad that I have the chance to participate in the World Games in Kaohsiung Foreign Language Tour Guide Training Course held by Kaohsiung Culture Bureau. During the sixty-hour training, I not only made many new acquaintances who have the same enthusiasm to promote our hometown, Kaoshiung, to foreign friends but also acquired a lot of precious knowledge about it in class.
Being residents born and growing up in Kaohsiung, many people believe that no others can know this city better than themselves. However, it is easy for the native residents to neglect some things because they are “too familiar” with the place they live for their whole lives. Actually, I am the one who was born and grew up in Kaohsiung but now realizes knowing so little about this city after participating in the course. Thanks to the course, I am lucky to have learned deeply and widely about my city and re-explore the diversity of Kaohsiung from its history and development process.
A sixty-hour course is really not enough for us to know Kaoshiung completely, but it has been a good start for us. Being qualified volunteer foreign language tour guides during the World Games in Kaohsiung in 2009, we still have a long way to go. And I believe what we, all the participants, are going to do is to keep going on filling up with more knowledge and keep in close touch for sharing experiences.
Dear partners, lets go ahead hand in hand and be full prepared for promoting Kaohsiung.
很高興有機會參加由高雄市文化局所舉辦的「世運在高雄－外語文化導覽人員培訓課程」。在六十小時的課程中，不但結識很多有志一同行銷高雄市的夥伴們，同時也獲的很多有關高雄的寶貴知識。
身為土生土長的高雄市民，很多人相信沒由別人比他們更了解這個城市。然而，由於理所當然認為太過了解自己住了一輩子的地方，反而容易忽視某些事物。我就是一個在高雄土生土長，上課後卻發現自己對高雄的了解是如此少的人。由於這次的課程，讓我有幸能深入的了解這個城市，同時透過這個城市的歷史與發展過程再次體驗高雄的多采多姿。
要完全了解高雄，六十小時的課程是不夠的，但對我們來說這是一個好的開始。要在2009年世運期間做一個稱職的導覽志工，我們還有很長的路要走。我相信所有的學員接下來要做的是不斷的自我充實，保持聯絡以及經驗的交流與分享。
親愛的夥伴們，讓我們共同攜手前進，一起為行銷高雄做好最佳的準備。
