【我的故事】《舍利的第一天 Shely's first day》|林颖昭 Amelin |

刚下过雨，天气很明媚，空气中还传来waffle烧烤味，实在令人垂涎三尺。但是舍利在行走的路上，现在真要赶去附近社交区刚刚建好的小熊图书馆，并没有时间停下来买可口的waffle。

舍利是要到小熊图书馆报到，因为今天是她第一天要到那里当义工，怎样排排书，扫扫地，把图书都电脑程式化，有人要借书就方便多了。她是非常非常的兴奋，因为一个美丽的图书馆就是舍利的梦想，而小熊图书馆就是一件十分漂亮的作品。是一位年轻力壮的建筑系毕业生建起来的，他与三位好友花六个月的时间慢慢把图书馆从一间破屋子改造。

在走几步路就到了！顺着干净的住宅区街道还有美丽欧洲式古典房屋可以观赏，舍利心情宜人。她穿着轻松的格子外套，里面一件背心，还有松蓬蓬的及膝米色麻布裙子。配上她最爱的素色平底鞋，再把刚及肩的乌黑黑头发绑上一个小小的马尾，舍利已经是把开心的心情装备好，要开始今天让人期待的任务。

一到达小熊图书馆，那个年轻力壮的小熊图书馆主人就已经站在门口迎接舍利了。
“哈咯，早安，你来啦。”建安正在清扫门前的满地落叶。
“早安！” 舍利向建安道早安后，便望进去图书馆，看来其他的建安的朋友们都还没有到达呢。

由于图书馆是由一间破旧的老屋改造的，现在图书馆看上去还有一种返乡土的人情味。小熊图书馆的构架很高，所以人们进到里面也会感觉到很有空间感，让呆在里面的人时间长了，也不会感到厌烦。图书馆设置了许多窗口，有一面墙可以说是整面都充满着窗口，是舍利最喜欢小熊图书馆的一个特点，因为到了晚上当图书天开满温馨的黄灯时，站在外面看着那建筑物，就会觉得它像一间会发亮的玻璃屋，刹是好看。

而且图书馆还是使用了以前旧屋很大的天窗，并没有把它遮盖掉，只是在天窗上方加上一层透视得到天空的透明屋顶所以下雨时雨水不会淋进图书馆。早上阳光得以照亮图书馆，提供充足的光线给读书的人。然后建安同舍利解释道，天窗还有一个优点便是下午天气热时，风从四面八方的窗口吹进来，热气往上升，便可以从天窗排出去。这样图书馆不会那么热，不需要装冷气，而建安只是在几根柱头上装了墙壁风扇。

他还在门口利用用几根粗木头搭了个俊俏的秋千，让前来图书馆的男女老少可以摇摇秋千散散心。图书馆内还有一个咖啡厅，就是由建安的几位好友来经营。“这样小熊图书馆才可以sustainable,你明白sustainable吗？就是。。。“
舍利笑笑，说：”明白。“
”因为图书馆不是我们买的，而是租的嘛，所以有了咖啡馆赚的茶水糕饼钱就可以交房租咯。“
建安满脸笑容地解释着，十分热情，看似对舍利有一见如故的感觉。

舍利第一次会有幸会遇见建安也是在她第一次光临小熊图书馆的时候。建安正在图书馆外庭院设立的一个rojak小卖挡做rojak,舍利望着梦寐一般的动人图书馆不敢踏进一步，于是问初次见面的建安：“是谁都可以进去吗？”
建安说：“是啊，你不是已经进来了吗？”
他在想这有趣的女孩是谁呢？

The air was cool, the rain had just had a nice pour last night.  The breeze brushed Shely's face and hair like a silk handkerchief. The sky has turned fully bright, but the sun was still hiding behind the lush carpet of white clean cloud. The beautiful day has started. Shely could smell waffle in the air, it made her empty stomach growled and mouth watered, but she couldn't walk to the waffle place because she had a place to hurry to. She needed to be at the newly built Little Bear library on time.

Shely had volunteered herself to help out in the library. She could use to swept some floor, arranging the books or computerise the books to enable effective book borrowing. She was supremely excited because a delicate library is equally be Shely's dream and heaven. In fact the Little Bear library she's about to visit was built by a sturdy young lad who had completed an architect degree with his three fellow friends with determined manners. They had successfully turned an old wood house to a brand new society library by just causing pretty minimum destructions. They also used very least amount of new materials by recycling the usage of woods teared down from the old house and manufactured them into new furnitures. Little by little, they endeavored six months of hardships and finally completed the magnificent piece by a week ago.

Shely's heart was cheering because she would soon arrives her destination by a few more turn of alleys. Today she is wearing a casual cotton block-design blouse with a white singlet inside, an almond milky coloured knee-length linen fabric skirt, and her favourite somber coloured flats. Then, she also tides up her shoulder-lenght black glossy hair into a low pony-tail, she is full of happy energy and she is ready to head on any challenges that might come.

When Shely arrived at the Little Bear library, there are already one man standing at the front porch of the building sweeping the floor full of fallen leaves by yesterday's rain. It is the owner and the creator of this library, the stouty young architect named James with a tan and healthy tone on his skin.
He acknowledged the approaching of Shely and immediately stopped his motion by half way.
"Hi, good morning, Sherly."He greeted the beautiful girl with a warm smile and Shely greeted back, " Good morning James."
She absent-mindedly peeped into  the airy and spacious library to see if James' friends had arrived. Nobody was in the library.

The library is transformed from an old chinese style house to a new library, so overall it has preserved the old town kind of taste when Sherly looked at it. The Little Bear library has a high roof and a bulky torso, it renders comers to indulge in a spacious and comfartable area to read books and it confirmed that after stretching long hours of staying indoor of the library, one wouldn't feel like escaping at all. The library has managed to packed with loadful of windows and that made Shely drawn to it by the first sight. There was one huge wall made up just by windows, at night when the sky became dark and the stars emerged, the library was alight with warm cosy yellow light like a little glass house. Super romantic.

Another exquisite fact of the book sanctum is that James made excellent use of the former opened sunroof, he didn't seal it up but added a transparent piece on top of it to keep way the rain. During daylight, the place would be overflowing with superfluous of gold rays, while when the rejoicing wind blew in through the beneficial mouths of the windows, the hot air will be vanishing through the sunroof. " So that," James explained proudly, "I don't have to install air conditioners. Instead, a few of electrical fans hanging by the pillar will satisfy the readers."

James had even built a handsome swing by the left side of the front porch of the library, by using some old blocks and pillars dismantled from the original model. It is a sound recreation for the tired bookworms.

A cafe was available in the library too. “In this case," said James, “when the money we'd been able to scratch from the consumers by those pieces of waffles and cups of teas, the library will be a sustainable choice, and I could pay the rental to the land owner.”
James explained wholeheartedly to Shely with enthusiasm as if they had been good companions all along.

Shely with much fortunate met James for the first time when she visited the library for the first time a few days back. James was standing in the rojak stall at the right side of the front porch of the library, making homemade rojak.
Sherly wondered if he is just an employee in this library.
Sherly stood by the door and absorbed in all the goodness of the library but couldn't decide if she'd be allowed go in. So she asked the rojak lad, “ Can I go into the library?”
James smiled, and answered,“ Sure, you're already inside.”

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