(1 August 103)
Friday we took a bus to Ting Ge for to visit the cermics museum and
take a pottery class. Every hired bus in Taiwan is a karaoke bus, and
Adam is a natural.
Here are students at the wheel.
Leane shows off her work,
And here are all our final products. Remember that we all started
with the same piece of clay, and came up with such different results.
At the end of the day, we sampled the millet wine that has been
featured in some of our lessons about the aboriginal peoples of
Taiwan.
(31 July 103)
We went back out to NCCU for the afternoon class. Some of the group
decided to ride bikes back. Taipei has a bike path along the river,
somewhat like the C.D. White bikepath along the Charles River back in
Boston. Here we used the rental "You Bikes." It's easy to rent them
and pay with the MRT cards we use in the subway.
(30 July 103)
Student presentations on biology were today. Here Kitch and James
prepare for their talk.
The afternoon activity was a trip to Academia Sinica.
Students had a chance to practice some caligraphy.
We're serious and we work hard, but there's still some time for
horsing around.
(30 July 103)
Some cities roar; Taipei buzzes. Motor scooters transport families of
three, goods, and personal belongings. When you exit the hotel, the
buzz of hundreds of scooters greets your ears. At each traffic light,
there is a box between the stop line for cars and the crosswalk. When
the light is red, bikes pass the stopped cars and fill up the box.
When the light turns green, the bikes start out, only to be overtaken
by the cars in the next block.
At the next light, the process repeats.