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Saturday, May 24th, 2025

Day 5

Today was our first Saturday in Taiwan, and it started off really well. We toured a university located in Taipei, where some students gave us a guided tour. We had the chance to see art exhibits at two locations on campus, and it was fun bonding with fellow students from Taiwan. However, things took a turn when I realized I had lost my backpack, which contained my journal that I’ve had for about two years. This made me really upset, as it was something so important to me. Thankfully, my new friends from the university worked hard to find where […]

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Saturday, May 24th, 2025

Day Five – Taipei

Today we visited Taipei National University of the Arts and were guided by a current student, Daniel, and a past student, David. At last, it has begun to rain more consistently. I didn’t think to check the weather and bring my new umbrella, but luckily there are many ways to procure one. There is a rack at some MRT stations with old, lost umbrellas that you can borrow and return, and there are also rentable umbrellas that ultimately cost about NTD$20 a day. We were shown around the campus as well as a few of the students’ art exhbits. The […]

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Saturday, May 24th, 2025

Day 4 in Taiwan

Day 4 began at a glorious 6am in the morning when Kyla and I woke up. Us, along with Hanna and Mikey unsuccessfully attempted to rent U-bikes to go on a morning bike ride and settled for a 3 mile walk along the river. We saw a bunch of crabs, fish, turtles, and birds, as well as a beautiful view of the city skyline and river. We met a man who was walking one of his 1100 5k’s for love and he posted a nice video of us on instagram!  We next headed to a small restaurant to get some […]

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Saturday, May 24th, 2025

Day 5 – May 24, 2025

Today we visited Taipei National University of the Arts, and it was a really eye-opening experience. We met two theater students, David and Daniel, who were incredibly kind and showed us around the campus. From the outside, the buildings looked old and worn down honestly, some parts seemed like they were crumbling. It made me realize how lucky we are to have the facilities we do at Bucknell. David and Daniel had to walk around in the rain all day just to get from one class to another. But once we stepped inside, it was a completely different building. The […]

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Saturday, May 24th, 2025

Day 3: Taiwanese’s Religions and Temples

SInce we’ve been in Taiwan, we have mostly learned about the political landscape and history of the country. One thing we have not looked into are the religions and their history inside of the country. To do this, we decided to go to important religious temples of both Buddhism and Daoism to spot not only the differences but their significances towards the people of Taiwan. Buddhism and Daoism are the major religions in Taiwan, with their being many temples all over Taipei City and locals praying inside of them around any part of the day, especially in the morning. We […]

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Saturday, May 24th, 2025

Day 4

On Day 4, we swap back to the business side of our learning objectives in Taiwan. The morning of day 4 was particularly hard for me because I got sick in the morning from something I ate. I powered through as we headed to the annual Taiwan technology expo held yearly in Taipei. This place was cool to see all the latest innovations of modern technology in Taiwan so far. I saw some gaming technology and contributions to the field of AI which were super interesting and engaging. After the tech expo, our group went and did some shrimp fishing. […]

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