Oct. 3 - 5, 2010

My first charity trip to Mongolia

I got up early Sunday morning with my team to fly to Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Upon arriving in the Chinggis Khaan Airport, I was greeted by so many people, children and adults alike. I was excited to be here for the first time – especially for something that I love to do, which is charity. Mongolia has some of the worst air pollution in the world and even before I landed, I could see the smog. The new government wanted to do promotion for clean air and asked me to help out. I didn’t just want to come to Mongolia to do one thing, so I asked if I could do charity as well. Now the journey begins!


With the Mogolian Investment Group and Joyful Care Charitable Foundation, we had a press conference to discuss all of the things I wanted to do in Mongolia. Did you notice that Joyful Care Charitable Foundation is also JCCF? Like Jackie Chan Charitable Foundation? Ha ha.


They also showed me a statue that they made of me. What do you think? Does it look like me?




I changed into my running suit and moved to the Central Sports Palace where I met with over 500 people to run against air pollution. There were so many people! I saw the signs that you all held up for me – thank you very much.




It didn’t take a long time to get to Sukhbaatar Square. When I got there, the city mayor presented me with the honorary citizenship of Ulaanbaatar. I saw a lot of kids crying; I think it’s because they were very emotional.


Soon I said goodbye to everybody at the square and went back to my hotel to change for the charity banquet that night. It was sunset, so I took a photo of the view from my hotel room.



During the charity banquet, we raised a lot of money and saw a lot of wonderful performances. My babies LA & ZY accompany me everywhere in the world I go, but I was especially happy that they were here doing charity work with me.



Here are some photos of the performances:


Soon the fundraising started. The first item was my limited edition Hermes Jackie Chan scarf. At first, they were just showing the box. Who is going to auction for it if they only see the box? So I ran on stage to explain to everyone that it was the first time Hermes made a special scarf for a person, not a company. There were only 600 made in the whole world and I was down to the last 2 or 3 scarves. Then I took the scarf out of the box so everyone could see how beautiful it was! Two tigers printed on the scarf were revealed. Do you all remember when this scarf first came out? Click here to refresh your memory.


I also signed a black and white photo to auction as well! I was very touched throughout the whole night that I donated $100,000 US and 100,000 HK. I love charity work.

Day 2
The next day, I got ready with my team to go to the Chinggis Khaan statue. In the morning, I usually just like to drink a cup of freshly squeezed orange juice or eat fruit, but I was able to get some rib soup, which is one of my favorites. I added a bowl of rice into the soup and it was a perfect way to start my day. A big change from just eating papaya or mango for breakfast right?
After eating, I was ready to go but they told me that the cars coming to pick us up were stuck in traffic. I found out that a few days before I got to Mongolia, they started doing a lot of road work, so many of the roads were blocked. I didn’t mind; I just turned on my computer to listen to music and organize my pictures.
When we drove to the big monument, I saw nothing but mountains and grass. Since the roads were not yet paved, it was bumpy, bumpy, bumpy. We finally arrived at the monument, which will be fully completed next year.
The statue that they presented me with yesterday will be a giant, life-sized statue. It will not be as big as the Chinggis Khaan monument, but there will be 10,000 of those statues below the monument. They showed me the blueprint and if it’s 80% like the picture, it will be beautiful. We will see next year because I want to go back to visit!



I am here with beautiful Mongolian children and my babies LA & ZY:



Then I got on the horse to see the judo kids:


Before I sat down to watch the wrestling, they presented me with a horse! I didn’t know what to name him because I have two pandas, Chen Chen and Long Long. I have two stuffed pandas, LA & ZY, two cats Ding Ding and Dong Dong and two dogs, JJ and Jones! So I decided to name him Jack. Why? Because jack also means fast. Don’t underestimate a small horse like this. Why? They can gallop a thousand miles in the daytime and 800 miles in the nighttime. The big horse can run maybe 2,000-4,000 feet then stop. These horses can run forever! Just like me! Ha ha.


I sat down to watch several wrestling matches with everyone. I feel like no matter where you go, martial arts is martial arts. Even though there are many different types from different countries and different styles, I think all in the end, its pretty much the same.

 
When we went inside for lunch, we had more performers show us traditional Mongolian music. When I saw this woman and remembered the two girls from the charity banquet – I asked myself and everyone, does every Mongolia woman know how to do this?


When we went back to Ulaanbaatar where I visited a state orphanage. If you know me, you know that I love children because they are the future of this world. I donated 38 wardrobes and 10 lockers and donated some money to renovate their rooms.


I also bumped into a bunch of Australians who were volunteering to fix the library at the library. I was especially touched when I found out that they were from Canberra! [Note: Jackie's parents lived in Canberra for many years and are both buried there.]


I didn’t want to say goodbye to the kids, but we had to get into the car to head to the next place – the ger area of the eastern Mongolia. Remember in my last diary entry I asked you to do research on the 1911 Xin Hai Revolution? Many people did research and left me answers on my website and that makes me very happy that you have learned something new. For this diary entry, try to find out what a Mongolian “ger” is.

Every citizen of Mongolia has the right to own a piece of land. I personally donated 2 gers to two deserving families, as well as rice and flour. I wanted to show you the difference between a lived-in ger, compared to a newly renovated ger, but without the family’s approval, I don’t think I can show you the picture.

Here is a newer ger:


Here is a lived-in ger and me with the family. When the translator was telling me their story, she started crying and she made me cry too:


Here are more beautiful children:

The groundbreaking ceremony for drinking water well:


Then we drove into the city and I showed up in a theater to surprise 500 orphaned and homeless kids. Although we were stuck in traffic, we made it in time for me to catch the end of The Karate Kid, which the kids were watching in English, dubbed in Mongolian. These children have never been to the movie theater before.


I got together with everyone at the theater afterwards to say thank you and goodbye.


At night, we had a dinner thanking everyone who raised money and made the charity trip possible. A lot of people said to me, “Jackie, thank you for coming to Mongolia.” I said, “Why not? The planet belongs to us. I am the citizen of the world." When I am in Mongolia, I am Mongolian. If I am in Beijing, I am Beijingnese. Ha ha. If every person thought that they belonged to the planet, they would treat every country as if it were their own country. They would treat people as their own people, no matter if they were white, black, red or yellow. Also if we belonged to the planet, we would treat the environment better too.
Thank you Mongolia, hope to see you again!

2010年10月3 - 5日

首次到蒙古的慈善之行

星期日一早起床后，就准备与工作人员一起飞往蒙古乌兰巴托。到达成吉思汗国际机场时，看见很多朋友们来机场迎接我。今次之行令我感到非常兴奋，因为这是我第一次来这里 - 而且，今次来也是做些我最喜欢的事情，就是慈善工作。其实，蒙古拥有世界最差的空气污染。我们还没到达前，在空中已经看见城市起烟雾。新蒙古政府邀请我来为他们宣传清新空气和参与「防止空气污染大行动」。其实，我来蒙古不净只想做一件事情，所以我问他们可以同时做慈善工作。现在，慈善之游开始了!

到达后，马上出席蒙古投资集团和Joyful Care Charitable Foundation(欢乐关怀慈善基金会)联合举办的记者招待会，与大家商谈我将来在蒙古想实行的计划。其实，你们有没有留意到，Joyful Care Charitable Foundation的简体是JCCF? 与Jackie Chan Charitable Foundation(成龙慈善基金会)是一样的! 哈哈。

他们制造了一个石像给我看，跟我很相似的。你们觉得呢? 像不像我?

之后，我回去换衫，穿着运动衣，然后到蒙古国家体育馆与超过500多人参加「防止空气污染大行动」的活动。我看到很多人! 我也看到你们为我举起的牌子 - 谢谢你们!

很快，我们就到达苏赫巴托广场。到了之后，我被市长封为乌兰巴托荣誉市民。活动期间，看见很多小朋友在哭，我想他们也很感动。

活动完毕之后，跟广场的观众道别，然后返回酒店换衣服，准备出席慈善晚会。刚好，回到酒店时看到日落，所以拍下这张照片与大家分享。

我们今天的慈善晚会筹了很多善款，还有看到很多美丽的表演。无论我去到世界各地那个地方，我两只宝贝熊猫LA和ZY也与我同行，但今次我是特别开心，因为它们与我一起做善事。

表演的时候，我拍下几张照片:

没有多久，慈善拍卖活动开始了。第一件要拍卖的物品就是我的Hermes成龙限量版颈巾。起初，他们只把盒子给大家看。坦白说，如果观众们只能看到盒子，谁会投标呢? 因此，我跑上台为大家说说这条颈巾的特性，因为是Hermes第一次为一个人，而不是一间公司，特别制造的颈巾。全世界只做了600条，现在是最后的两三条。讲完之后，我打开盒子，把美丽的颈巾拿出来给大家欣赏! 颈巾上两只老虎。你们还记得这条颈巾何时现世吗? 请到这里刷新你的记忆。

还有，我在一张黑白照片上签名，送给慈善拍卖会! 其实，我真是很感动，因为整个晚上非常顺利，所以我也慷慨解囊捐了10万美元和10万港币。我非常热爱慈善工作。

 

第二天

第二天，我和工作人员起床后，准备前往成吉思汗雕像。平时早上起床后，我会饮一杯鲜榨橙汁或吃一些水果做早餐，但是今天，我饮到我最喜欢的汤，就是排骨汤。我在汤里加了饭，这样开始新的一天真完美，与平时吃木瓜或芒果当早餐有些不同，对吗?

 

吃完早餐后，我已经预备好去出发，但是工作人员跟我说，来接我们的车辆遇到交通堵塞，所以迟了。后来得知，到蒙古的前几天，他们开始做很多道路工程，所以很多道路被封锁。其实，我真是不介意；我开了自己的电脑，听听歌，还有整理好电脑的照片。

我们到达成吉思汗的纪念雕象后，除了看到山和草原之外，什么也没有看到。往雕象的路程非常凹凸，因为路面还未铺柏油。我们终于到达成吉思汗的纪念雕象，明年将会全部完成。

他们昨天送给我的雕象将会成为一个大型雕象，尺寸像真人的样子这么大。虽然这个不会像成吉思汗的雕象那么大，但是成吉思汗的雕象下面将会有一万个尺寸像真人的雕象。他们把设计图给我看，如果将来的计划真是与设计图有八成相似，我可以跟大家说，这里真会很漂亮。明年我想再回来看看，所以到时就会知道结果!

我与两只宝贝熊猫LA和ZY以及可爱的蒙古小朋友。

之后，我骑马去看小朋友们耍柔道。

当我想坐下来观看摔角表演的时候，他们献了一匹马给我! 我真是不知道应该改什么名给它。我已经收养了两只熊猫，叫成成和龙龙，还有两只公仔熊猫LA和ZY，两只猫儿叮叮和当当，以及两只狗头JJ和Jones! 所以，我决定叫它Jack。为什么呢? 因为Jack的含义也是快的意思。大家不要低估这匹小马。为什么? 虽然它身体小小，但它能一日行千里，夜行八百里。那些大马一日可以跑2,000 - 4,000尺，但这些小马可以马不停蹄疾驰到永远! 就像我一样! 哈哈。

我跟大家一起坐下观看几场摔角表演。其实，我觉得无论你去到那里，武术就是武术。虽然武术有很多不同的变化，不同国家有不同的风格和招式，但对我来说，武术最终都是一样的。

之后，我们进入去吃午餐，他们又为我表演传统的蒙古舞和蒙古音乐。当我看到这位女士的时候，她让我想起昨天在慈善晚会见到的两位小女孩 - 之后我心里问自己，还问身边的人，是不是每位蒙古女士都能这样做吗?

后来，我们返回乌兰巴托，探访本地的孤儿院。熟识我的朋友都应该知道，我挺喜欢小朋友的，因为他们是世界的将来。我捐赠了38衣柜和10个有锁的存物柜。

我也遇见了一班澳洲人的志愿者，他们正在维修图书馆。而且，当我得知他们是来自堪培拉的时候，我真是感到特别感动! [大家还记得吗，我父母在堪培拉居住很多年，后来又葬在这里。]

我真的不想跟小朋友们道别，但是我们要开车前往另一个地方 - 就是蒙古东部的蒙古包区域。大家还记得，我在上个日记里叫你们搜查关于1911辛亥革命? 我真是感到非常高兴，因为看到很多人在网页里写下很多留言，这也证明你们学识了一些新的东西。好吧，这次我就问大家搜查"蒙古包"是什么。

据我所知，每一位蒙古市民有权拥有一块地。这次，我捐赠了两个蒙古包给两户应得的家庭，还有捐赠了米和面粉给他们。其实，我想让大家看看一个住过的蒙古包和一个新装修的蒙古包有什么分别，但是没有得到这户家庭的同意之前，我不能与你们分享他们的照片。

 

这是一个新型的蒙古包。

还有，这是一个住过的蒙古包，我与这户家庭拍照。翻译员跟我说他们的故事时，她开始流眼泪，看着她我的眼泪也情不自禁地流了下来。

我又拍下更多可爱小朋友的照片。

之后，出席饮用水井的奠基仪式。

仪式完成后，我们开车到城市一间戏院，给了500位孤儿和无家可归的小朋友一个意外惊喜。虽然途中遇到交通堵塞，但是我们最后赶到看功夫小子的尾声。小朋友们正在看蒙古字幕的英文版本。其实，这些小朋友从来没有去过戏院看电影。

电影播完之后，我跟他们说谢谢和再见。

到了晚上，我跟安排这次慈善之游和帮助筹款的工作人员一起吃饭，感谢他们的努力。其实，很多人都跟我说: "大哥，谢谢你来蒙古。" 我就说: "为何? 这个世界属于我们的，而我是这个世界的市民。" 当我在蒙古的时候，我就是蒙古人。如果我在北京，我就是北京人。哈哈。如果每个人都这样想，自己是属于地球的，大家就会把每个国家视为自己的国家，大家会把所有人视为自己人，无论皮肤是黑色白色红色或黄色。还有，如果我们是属于这个地球，大家会对地球的环境更加好。

谢谢蒙古，希望我们很快可以再见!

 

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