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Friday, May 30th, 2025

Day 9: Taizhong opera house, Historical District, and a Very old Temple

This opera house was pretty interesting because throughout the basic structure of the building the building there is no straight lines which made for a cave like interior which I guess would be good for opera singing and what not. I was a little disappointed that we could not actually take a look into where the performance take place but the many of the assessable areas where still cool to see. After the opera house we made our way over to a historical part of Taizhong where a lot of buildings where preserved. Here we got to sample some local […]

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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 8: Travel Day/Science Park/Temple/Night Market

Our Day started out early with a 6:45 wake up to catch a bullet train to Xinzhu Science park. Xinzhu is 1 of 13 science parks in Taiwan and it is also the biggest. It currently has 600+ companies in the park. These could be companies HQs, research and development, factories or any other kind of building. We started the tour with a visit to small museum that showcased some of the technology that is being or has been developed in the science park. There are 6 main fields/industries in the science park; IC industry, Computers , Communications, electronics, pressions […]

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Wednesday, May 28th, 2025

Day 6: National Taiwan University tour

After our class lecture and reflecting on the now week we have been in Taiwan we made our way to National Taiwan University. This happens to be the place that one of our leading professors, professor Chen, had graduated from. We where given a great tour by a couple of first year political science students. The tour was informative and I was able to have some small talk with them in mandarin as we walked along. We got to walk down the famous street with rows upon rows of palm trees. This was clearly a popular spot for pictures. A […]

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Tuesday, May 27th, 2025

Day 7

I can remember as a little kid every once in awhile i would visit my grandparents print shop. The smell of the ink, paper and the machines when walking into the factory was immediately recognizable. Small businesses like this one used to be the back bone of America and even though it is in Taiwan its still nice to see that they still exist. The process and the machines where very interesting to learn about and see. Many of the machines are advanced enough so that it only really requires one worker to operate. It is interesting to hear from […]

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Saturday, May 24th, 2025

Day 5: University visit, the Jade market, and the Raohe night market

View From the Top of Taipei National University of the Arts A university student and alum gave as a tour of the campus despite the rain. We got to get a an idea of the lay out of the campus and also got to see some of the art work created by the students. I have never actually been on a college campus that is fully dedicated to the arts but it was interesting to see pieces of work throughout the entire campus and not contained with in a building or two. With the students that we met and with […]

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