My Unforgoten Trip to Tain-Ren Rock House

On May 16, I visited Tain-Ren Rock House(天人岩屋) in Nei-Wan(內灣) to join some interesting activities. Tain-Ren Rock House is founded by a priest who makes lots effort to improve environment and education. He holds many activities to make people learn environmental-friendly attitude, cooperation, ethic and love. This time, I participated in two activities: going upstream and watching firefly and I really learned a lot from them.

Going upstream is an exciting activity which includes climbing waterfall, climbing rock, diving and sliding through the stream. To achieve this activity, cooperation and courage is necessary. In fact, when climbing the waterfalls and cliff, it is easy to be flush away since the torrent, the nature power, is so strong that human can hardly compete. Besides, it really needs courage to climb the rock and dive into the water from cliff. However, though these activities are kind of dangerous and hard, we can conquer them with adequate preparation and cooperation. That is, with life jacket, diving suit and friendship we can do this adventure safely and happily. All in all, I not only enjoyed the exciting experience of going upstream but also learned how important and sweet the friend can be.

Besides the going upstream, I watched the glowworms as well. Because the period of the firefly was near the end, there were only a few fireflies in the mountain according to the guide. Nevertheless, for me, there was already "many" fireflies and I was astonished at that amazing scene. Watching that small light flashed around the road, I admired the natural beauty but felt guilty about human’s destruction to the environment and wild lives. According to the guide, glowworms only have a few days to live and as long as they meet more strong light they won't shine anymore, which means that they will die without mating. Therefore, we should be awareness of our behavior and attitude to the nature.

This Saturday, undoubtedly, is an unforgotten memory for me. I experienced some special activities and got many value ideas from them.