Bed & Breakfast by the coast of Hualien- My Dream
Everyone has their childhood memories. I was a real rascal as a kid.
Next door to our house was a famous local movie theater, and I used to sneak other kids to the movies from the second floor of our house. Everyday after school, I would catch fish as I go home along the Ming-yi canal, and everyday my mom would send people out to look for her missing girl. There was one Chinese New Year, me and some kids across the streets were throwing firecrackers at each other, and it ended up in some stranger’s cloths, and of course he chased us. In the earlier days of Hualien, there was this lady who would freak out whenever she sees anyone in red cloths, and my mom would always put me in red. Being naughty myself, and kids loving to play around her, the banyan in front of our house became my place of refuge.
After I got a little older, I couldn’t resist the ocean’s charm, I brought my dog with me all the time, I used to throw stones at the sea, get chased by the waves. Typhoons didn’t stop me from wanting to go to the seaside. Come to think of it, the storms were pretty scary!
Back in junior high school, when our school bus was headed for my home, I would get off halfway and chase the sunset. My passion for the ocean became my drive to settle by the sea.
Then I met my husband, who also had his father running behind him all the time, lucky for me! He said “Hualien is as beautiful as anywhere else in the world.” I guess he is one of the reasons I still get into trouble in my middle age.
I took over a restaurant without knowing how to cook. The cook stood me up on our opening day, and the rice turned into porridge. Fortunately Hai-chuan’s ocean view was so beautiful, the costumers didn’t mind.
Twelve years just went by like that with our restaurant; I’m not even sure whether or not we’ve accomplished anything. I just did it so that nothing would get in the way between the ocean and our window. With the help from fiends, we purchased the open ground next door, and do what? I didn’t have a clue. “Build a bed & breakfast place.” a friend of mine said, and I thought “oh, okay.” The blue print was this little piece of paper, it wasn’t till the building was fully constructed did I found out what I’d got myself into! This is the way of “Ku Hui-chu of the Hai-chuan Bed & Breakfast”, it’s a way of life.
My worried husband keeps on begging me not to get into trouble. But hey, I don’t know, maybe I’ll be ready for some more trouble someday!
每一人都有童年的回憶,我的小時候是超頑皮.
隔壁隣居是花蓮有名的電影院,常帶著一群小朋友從我家二樓偷爬屋頂去看電影,
放學天天是順著明義街水溝一邊抓魚,一邊回家,媽每天派人找丟失小女孩,
過年,和對街小孩互丟水鴛鴦,結果,丟到路人衣服裡,被人追,
更有趣:花蓮早期有一個女瘋子,看到穿紅衣服的人就生氣,偏偏媽媽最愛讓我穿
紅衣服,自己又皮,一群小孩愛逗她,家門前的一棵大榕樹成了我逃跑的避難所.
後來,迷上海邊的浪,常帶著狗在浪來時,玩丟石頭,被浪追,颱風天浪大也去,回想真恐怖!
初中,校車坐半路就下車去追日落,愛海,成了我定居海邊的目標.後來遇見我家老頭子,
年少時,也是跑給老爸追的同志!哈,是幸運也,他說:花蓮比國外不差,很美,影響了我中年又
繼續闖禍因素.
從不會煮飯,去跟人家接餐廳,第一天開幕,就被廚師放鴿子,只好飯煮成稀飯,還好,海傳
的海太美了,客人不在意.
餐廳一做十二年,到底有没有成果也不知,只為了海傳大玻璃的海不被人家擋住,朋友的幫忙,
去買隔壁空地,要做什麼,不知?朋友說:"蓋民宿". 喔!建築圖小小的,蓋好才知自己禍闖太大了,
這就是"海傳民宿的古貴珠",人生如此.
老頭子一再拜託,他心臟無力,要我不再闖禍.我也不知,我哪天會不會又闖禍.哎.......
The ocean view is fascinating
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花蓮海景民宿 - 海普普的自傳
