Mount Titlis (Second Version)

"It will be a wonderful paradise," I told to myself when I was sitting in the bus, and I knew that even though I hadn't been there. This was a sunny day and our bus was traveling in the tranquil champaign. The air was fresh and chill. The champaign was green and live. The sky was enormous and azure. My heart was excited and glad. I was in Switzerland! The bus was still heading for our destination, Mount Titlis, to see the glacier.

As a Taiwanese, I had never seen the snow before. Because Taiwan is a tropical country, people are hardly to see the real snow. Let alone the glacier! As a result, it would be my first time to see the glacier. The elated feeling was beyond description, not only to me, but also to my friend and my younger sister. After the two-hour distance, finally, we arrived at our destination, Mount Titlis.

After I arrived at Mount Titlis, I found the scene were very different. The landscape of the foot of the mountain was bright and beautiful. The grass and the trees are virid. I even saw the animals, such as pigs, cows, horses, on the hillside. And then, when I was on the half way up the mountain, the view changed a lot. The grass and the trees were disappeared. The mountain was bald and sometimes I could see the white pieces of ice cap scattered on the mountain just like the pattern of a milch cow. Eventually, when I arrived at the mountaintop, the only thing I could see was the glacier and the fog. It was my first time to see the glacier! It was also my first time to realize that walking on the ice was not an easy task at all. Because it was so slippery, people might tumble easily.

Just as the moment that I saw this view, I was really moved. I realized that the Creator was so mighty that it created various landscapes on the earth such as deserts, oceans, glaciers, mountains, streams, and so on, and each of them had their own features. This time, I knew more about the glacier, not from the textbooks, but from my personal experience. Until that moment, I started to understand why some people say “He that travels far knows much.”