Tennis
One of my favorite things to do in Taiwan was to play tennis with the TAs and the students. After class, Dwang and I would go play tennis and the TAs and students would come join us sometimes.
Food
The tea was so good but also so fun to open because we decided not to open it in a conventional way. Anne was scared that when I was going to spray the tea everywhere. Then Dwang and Eshao had the great idea to race each other to see who could finish the tea first.
Flora, one of our students (she participated in one week of the high school program and then also in the 2week college program), brought us these muffins that I believe are Korean and very well known in Taiwan. Another student also brought us this cake (the one nick is cutting up) that is well known from another part of Taiwan and filled with tarro (i believe). also very delicious. Anne had her friends bring us back pineapple cakes from another part of Taiwan so we could try really good pineapple cakes and they were so good and delicious!
My favorite breakfast and then a picture of another breakfast we got. Every morning some of the TAs would bring us local breakfast food from a place outside of campus. It was delicious and such a great way to be introduced to the local cuisine.
Learning to Dance
For one of the music lessons we (Dwhited, Dwang, and I) decided we were bored of continually just showing music videos to the students to introduce them to American Music so we decided we would teach them some of the dances we have to different songs (during class...). Danielle's re-freshed their knowledge about "soldier boy" while I showed some more you tube videos. We also taught cha-cha slide.
Room
This was what we slept on for a month. it has taught me to be able to sleep on anything no matter how hard it might be.
Computer Lab
We had them go to the computer lab to work on their presentations and their computers were awesome. We had the power to change their screen whenever we wanted so we felt very powerful. We also learned how well they listen to the rules and about leaving their drinks in the hallway. I would never see this in the USA.
Tent Activity
We decided to do the tent activity again with the University students because the high school students seemed to really enjoy the activity. the college students enjoyed it too and came out with some really impressive tents. The rules were no different but the tents looked very different from week to week.
Culture Lesson-Food!
For one of the culture lessons we taught the students about different foods that are eaten in the USA but we did not want to lecture about food for 1.5hrs so we decided we would also have them try american food. We made puppy chow as well as ants on a log (celergy with peanut butter and raisins). They all thought the puppy chow was too sweet but had fun learning to make it as well as just having free time to talk. We also really enjoyed having an excuse to eat the type of sweet food we are used to. I wanted to make brownies but decided that would be too difficult during the middle of class.
Dinner with Professor Li
Before leaving Taiwan we had a goodbye dinner with Professor Li. She is an MIT alum who is a professor at YuanZe University and was always very welcoming and knowledgeable about Taiwan. She often would join us and the TAs at lunch. We ate dinner at the canteen on campus where we would sometimes also grab lunch. The cafeteria served really good fresh juices as well as lots of vegetables so I always enjoyed my meals there.
Professor Li also brought us different desserts to try. All of us (minus Dwang) in Professor Li's office.
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