July17-July20, PROJECT~!!!!!

It was raining nearly all the day, but the project did not stop. Our group seems to be one of the most hardworking one among the four groups. We were talking about the project all the time and even have no time to visit the skywalk in Sitou~!!!  There are four group members have four different academic background in our group. Mei is major in library information and Kohei’s major is civil engineering, Andrew is major in environmental science and mine is finance & accountancy. It seems that we have no advantage among those who have biology background, but I think we have our own advantages.  Such as Mei can do the research things which talking about the research methods and Andrew can help us editing since English is his mother tongue. What I can do is data collection and data analysis. Kohei is in charge of the mainly idea. The work is not easy but it worth it to work with brilliant peers.  I went to the monster village with others and it was really really amazing and fun.  I love the special seals and postcards there and bought a lot and sent to my friends everywhere all around the world. It was a great place to have fun.

The lectures related to the experimental design were really useful, and we learn a lot from them. It seems that our group spent too much time on our project that we have no time to hang out and have a lot at the scenery in Sitou, but we thing it is better to consider the project work seriously instead of playing everywhere. None of us are biology related major which means we should pay more attention and spend more on the project than others. It was tired and sometimes we even quarrel with each other because of different ideas, but I thing that’s exactly the charm of teamwork. Through discussion and quarreling, we got the topic and the experimental method, even the conclusion as well, and that’s what everyone really wants.

We visited the earthquake museum in the last day outside Taipei, I was young when the earthquake occurred, but I can clearly remember the shocked pictures from the news at that time. The nature is great and we should spare no effort to protect it instead of destroy. Finally we came back to NTU after a long trip,  we were so happy to be back to the “real” world.

The 21th day, long march in Taiwan~!

It was extremely cold in the wooden house last night and I woke up at around 4:00 this morning. But I waited to get up at about 7:00am.

The breakfast was light but enough, we all have strong emotion to finish the long march today. After our professors who taught us knowledge about bird watching, we didn't feel tired at all~!!!!! I bought a big corn after we arrieved the giant tree, then we went back to the youth center and have a sweet nap.

Then came the project discussion section, we were tired but exciting about telling everyone about our project. To realize our dream, we still have a lot of work to do.

The 20th day, new experience in wooden house~!

The breafast here in Sitou is much better than the perious ones, I had a big breafast today~!

We had lecures about the introduction of Sitou Experimental Forest and a simple guide tour of this amazing "campus " out the main campus of the National Taiwan University. It was such a great place not only for students from NTU to practice what they learn in the class, but also a wonderful place for the coming tourisms. The lecture about the birds in Taiwan and the interesting bird nest practice was attractive, and we all had a nice time.

What really new was the special experience in the wooden house. Though the weather tonight was not that kind of food for moon and star observation and it was really cold tonight, we still have a lot of fun together~! I did feel the interests of teamwork~!

The 19th Day~! July 14th, Brooke's birhday~!!!!!

After such a nice birthday memory of Ashley, we welcame Brooke's birthday today.

We had a lot of tea in the daytime and visited Phoenix Tea Plantation and Lugu Farmers' Association. As a Chinese, I really really love drinking tea. Usually during the school days I bring about at least 1kg tea to school every semester and finish it at the end of the school days. I love the feeling to have a cup of hot tea after dinner, it is pretty enjoyable. But our foreign friends may be not that kind of used to it, M even told me that she suffered a favor because of drinking too much tea~! It sounded interesting for our Asian people but maybe that was the fact.

We checked in Sitou experimental forest in the evening and I am happy to be the roomate of Mei and Christine.

Happy birthday~!

The 18th day, Happy birthday Ashley~!

We visied the Endemic Species Research Instiue and had two lectures today. The animal conservation center was really cool, which gave me a brand new version of the relationship of humanbeings and animals. The lectures and guide tours were interesting, too. The mini bat was sooooo cute and the guide were really nice.

We arrived at the tea garden in the evening and the weather was very forggy, which looked like a fairy world. It was Ashley's 21 birthday today and most of us were out and celebrated her birthday tonight.

Happy birthday to Ashley and those who will have birthday tomorrow~!

The 17th day, nice tribe visiting and bench making

Actually I thought a lot last night and the whole day today.

About each of my reactions yesterday and whether it is correct or not. I am the kind of people who may check every step occurred again and again after something happened. I have to say that I was not logical enough when was asked some previous things. Since we cannot agree with each other, maybe what I can do is just try to forget everything and learn from it, but he scar of it will be there forever and reminds me of this extremely bad experience in Taiwan.

Half of the trip already, I believe most of us have already feeled tired and exhausted, but we still have some more work to do in the following days.

Visited the wangxiang aboriginal tribe in the morning and the wine factory was really cute~! We tried some samples and experienced the special aboriginal dishes for lunch. The vegatables and pork were very good and we was told that the lady who served us at noon was the one who won 2nd place in the BBQ competition among the tribe.

Back to the wooden factory where we live, we began to make our own bench after walked aroung the factory. The bench looked pretty but it was not that kind of easy to make. I curved my name and the date today in the calendar of the Republic of China. It was special gift from shuili.

We have a mini match after the discovery video about the wooden world. Practice makes perfect, and this is what I should always remember.

The 16th day, rainy

I don' know what to write about the things happened today, I wished it would be as fine as usual, but it seems not.

Half hour's trip took us from MeiFeng Farm to Chunyang Subfarm, then the lecture began. Though not as interesting as usual, it was not that kind of bad. We tried the pepper the professor provided us, it was soooooooo spicy~! But tasted like lemon at first, and it existed in one of the dishes of lunch today.

The suddenly tain stoped us from harvesting tomatoes,nearly ten days' sunshine gave us enough reasons to leave our umbrellas inside of the luggage. Luckily the farm offered each of us a raincoat and enabled the activity to go on smoothly. The golden tomatos looked like yellow lanterns and we were allowed to fill one box each. Decision was always difficult but we have to. Finally nearly everyone got what him or her want and left for the next stop.

After more than two hours' drive, we arrived at the wooden factory.

Then came what I will never forget.

Maybe it was about the gap between different cultures, but the so-called "common words" still hurted me a lot. Though regarded it somthing meaningless and kind of shame when I was told feel free to ask anyone about the words, I did ask some local students about the words hurted me in the end, and the answer was different from the explanation. When was asked if I want to go back home now, I just said yes, definitely. It's hard to believe that those were the exactly words came from a senior clark who has already run this program successfully for 3 years, but it did happened. Especially at the moment when I suffered a cold and otitis media, in this brand new area, I missed my family and friends a lot. When stood at the flat between two floors with my luggage and endured the suddenly silence and the stares from the crowd, I just felt nothing can be more embarrassed than this moment during this trip. Maybe in some occasion it is nothing but a joke, but his expression at that moment and later when we talked with each other told me that was not something it was supposed to be. Till now, I still cannot totally accept the explanation I got, it was nearly a kind of offense, at least from my point of view.


Went to a hospital and got some medicine, I have to think about my health seriously. To Jack and Iris, thanks a lot for your help, without the affair before, never will I tell you about the problem of my ear, I swear.

I tried to tell my friends in the mainland how interesting this program is and show off the pictures and knowledge I get here through the SNS website everyday, and they admire me a lot. Unfortunately I have nothing to show today, or even have to hide my feelings instead. Hope all will be fine tomorrow, maybe what I suffered today was just the costs to choose the road not taken.

Wish all of us will have a happy ending two weeks later.