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Archive for May, 2025

Friday, May 30th, 2025

Day 10: Travel to Kaohsiung/Fine art museum/Kaohsiung American School/Boat ride/Liuhe Night Market

We started the day out with another bullet train ride to make our way to Kaohsiung at the southern end of the island. It seems that the more south you go the less populated and dense the cities get. The streets are wider and there is a lot more space over all. The art museum was pretty cool although I only got to walk through 2 of the floors before I was invited by professor Chen to attend a recruitment like trip for one of the local high schools. It is always rewarding to talk about my place of education. […]

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Thursday, May 29th, 2025

Day 9 in Taiwan

Kyla and I started our day off with a quick hotel breakfast, trying almost everything they served, and then we walked to Starbucks to get a caffeine pick-me-up drink. Our first group activity for the day was a visit to the National Taichung Theater, an opera house. One thing that I immediately noticed was that the building was built with a curved architecture, and I believe it only contained non-geometrical lines. I thought that this was super cool since the architecture of the building itself resembled an opera as it displayed a kind of “architecture that can be listened to”. […]

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Thursday, May 29th, 2025

Day Nine – Taichung & Lukang

We got a lot done despite the later wake up. Malli and I had time to visit the Starbucks a couple blocks down from our hotel, as we wanted to check out the different menu options. I got the hojicha tea latte as it is one of my favorite teas: definitely 10/10. Our first stop with the class was the National Taichung Theater, which is a feat of architecture designed by Toyo Ito. We showed up early and were told we could wait at the outdoor amphitheater, as they were expecting some people of import (I didn’t know who they […]

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Thursday, May 29th, 2025

Day 7

Day 7 begins as we leave Taipei and move to Taichung. We got to ride a bullet train there, and I was thoroughly impressed with the efficiency and well-kept bullet trains and their stations. We visited a science expo park, where we learned a great deal about the park’s history and the types of monetary contributions that take place within it. A lot of the learning focused on technology and Taiwan’s contributions to the world, as well as how Taiwanese businesses are able to achieve these numbers. We then visited another temple, which was very large and more significant than […]

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Thursday, May 29th, 2025

Day 6

Day 6 of our trip to Taiwan was a good middle ground in terms of meeting our learning goals. We began our day by visiting a paper printing company owned by Professor Chen’s brother-in-law. It was amusing to see these two interact with each other in a professional setting, and the tour was very informative, so I thoroughly enjoyed this visit. We then went to a temple where people say all your questions about love will be answered truthfully. We got to tour around a bunch of smaller shops where I picked up some souvenirs to bring home. A lot […]

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Thursday, May 29th, 2025

Taiwan: Day 9 – Lukang & Fongjia Night Market

On our second day in Taichung we visited a large, grand opera house, which boasted really interesting architecture and interesting exhibitions. I honestly think the best part of the opera house was the gift shop, though — there were hundreds of little wooden figurines, a display made entirely out of felt, and many more hand crafted items. After eating a delicious but very spicy lunch, we headed to Lukang — historical town situated on Taiwan’s western coast. Lukang was a very charming town and I really enjoyed my time there. The streets had dozens of shops and I got a […]

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