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    • Gün 11

      Day 6: The Longest Day EVER!

      12 Ocak 2018, Tayvan ⋅ ⛅ 13 °C

      大家好!
       
      今天过得很充实!
      首先,今天由我们给开平学生介绍澳洲的节日。我们安排了一些活动,从教他们怎么唱澳洲的Jingle Bells、怎么说澳式英语,到怎么踢澳式足球(因为台湾没有澳式足球,我们用的是一个排球)。活动很成功,我们都一直笑。
      在我们把学校到窗子笑破以前,我们和一些学生离开了学校,去士东市场。午饭我们在那儿吃日本菜,然后在市场里参观。今天是一个叫Medusa的同学陪我。她和我 一起尝试了“刀疗”!刀疗是用刀来按摩。做刀疗以前,我们很怕,但是尝试了以后都觉得很舒服。Medusa也教我很多花的中文名字,我特别喜欢兰花,台湾的国花。

      接着,我们去故宫博物馆,但是在进去以前,我们发现有木乃伊展览。对,在台湾我们看到了来自大英博物馆的木乃伊!两个博物馆都很有意思, 故宫博物馆最有名的展品是一个白菜的玉雕,叫“翠玉白菜”。
       
      这一天还没结束!晚饭的时候我们去了士林夜市,吃了很多小吃和玩小游戏。我们吃了鸡排、葱油饼、香肠、蚵仔煎、鱼丸汤、木瓜牛奶和胡萝卜汁、烤杏鲍菇等等。我们还玩了很多游戏,费兹玩游戏,玩得特别好,但是在花了很多钱以后(台币四百=澳币十七.一元),我们都赢了奖。
      今晚我们会睡得非常好!

      Hello Everyone!

      It was a very long day today.
      Firstly, we introduced Australian festivals to the Kaiping students. We organised a few activities , from teaching them how to sing Australian Jingle Bells and how to speak "Australian", to how to play Australian Rules Football using a netball(because there are no Aussie footballs in Taiwan, we had to use a netball). The activities were a success, we couldn't stop laughing!

      Before we broke the school windows, a few students left with us for Shi Dong market. We ate Japanese cuisine for lunch then we were left to explore. A fellow student, Medusa, accompanied me and we had a "knife massage" together! A knife massage is where knives are used to massage around the back, neck and shoulders. Before we got the massage we were a bit afraid, but afterwards we felt very comfortable. Medusa also taught me a lot of flower names in Chinese. I especially liked the Lan Hua, Taiwan's national flower.
      Afterwards we went to the National Palace Museum, but before we went in we went discovered the Mummy exhibit. Yes! We went to see the British Museum's Mummy exhibit in Taiwan! Both museums were very interesting, the National Palace Museum's most famous exhibit was a jade cabbage, called "Jadeite Cabbage With Insects".

      This day still isn't over! In the evening we went to the Shi Lin night market, ate a lot of small snacks and played some small carnival games. We ate fried chicken cutlet, spring onion pancake, Taiwanese sausage, oyster omelette, fish ball soup, papaya milk, carrot juice and roast mushroom. We also played a lot of games. Fitzie played the best, but after spending a lot of money (400NTD = $17.10), we all won a prize.

      We will sleep very well tonight!!

      作者:凯丽 Written by Kelly
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    • Gün 56

      Ancient sculpture techniques

      25 Mart 2019, Tayvan ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C

      Fresh off the plane, 80+ year old Great aunt Yumei decided it was about time to hit the National Palace Museum故宮博物院 after getting a quick bite to eat. She sure has a ton of energy! Hadn’t seen her for 20 odd years or so, but that sure didn’t stop her from getting right in there on everything from Davy’s backpack being too heavy (apparently it would stunt his growth) to Meg eating too much meat (hence the mosquitoes being attracted to her blood)!

      The National Palace Museum is very popular with tour groups from China because it houses many of the ancient Chinese treasures brought over in 1949 to protect them from destruction during and after the Chinese Civil War. We only visited about half of the exhibits, mostly the sculpture, jade and calligraphy rooms, which had more interesting pieces in them for the kids. Meg had lots of fun pointing out as many tian天 and yu玉 words as she could find, while Davy and Mommy marveled at the workmanship given the simple tools the craftspeople would have had in ancient times.

      We also discovered that Great aunt is not a big fan of being in pictures! Still managed to capture a few memories on the sly.
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    • Gün 3

      World Tourism Day

      27 Eylül 2018, Tayvan ⋅ 🌧 29 °C

      Today's plan is to take advantage of being a tourist by going on a free Historic City walking tour and then to the National Palace Museum which is normally around £10 but free today!

      After an amazing night sleep we went for our Historic Walking tour. Molly out tour guide spoke fantastic English and really knew her stuff. We saw the Longshan Temple, bought ice cream at the oldest ice cream shop in Taiwan, learnt about the various rulers of Taiwan, saw Taiwan's equivalent of Times Square, learnt why the Chinese design curvy streets (to prevent attackers and the Chinese Zombie), saw and heard about history of the 228 Peace Park and the stories of Chiang kai-shek. During the break me and Will ran to a bakery where we had a voucher for a free tourist gift, a pineapple cake and two nougat bars. Then we saw the Presendital Parliamentary building, the concert hall, theatre Hall and finally the Chiang kai-shek memorial.

      For lunch we headed to Nanmen market hall for beef noodle soup and then to the National Palace Museum. By the time we got to the museum it was about 4pm and we had been wandering round since 9:30am so we were quite tired with pretty sore feet. The museum was free so we decided to make the most of it anyway. Overall it was quite interesting and had a few pieces of interest but I was very much looking forward to a proper sit down. At the museum we saw various paintings with calligraphy, a meat shaped stone that looked like pork belly but was actually a mineral known as banded jasper, a jade bokchoy and much much more. The museum was huge, we only got round one section before having to stop due to throbbing feet.

      We are now both starving for dinner so it's time to head off in hunt of food. We tried Raohe Night Market and having been to 3 night markets in Taiwan, I'm convinced they are the same with different names and size. We had beef bone soup, pan fried dumplings and a Peppered Pork Bun again and then headed home to plane for our next day.

      The original plan was to stay one more day and do a day trip to Jiufen, a neighbouring town. However the hostel tried charging us double as its a Friday and the rain from the passing typhoon is supposed to be worse tomorrow and therefore worse on the north east of the island. So we are going to go to Taichung, famous for its food and on the west of the island. We've also booked in for our very first couchsurfing experience! Bit of an adventure so let's see how it goes 😊
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    • Gün 57

      Yangming mountain (陽明山) nature walk

      26 Mart 2019, Tayvan ⋅ ☀️ 17 °C

      First full day in Taipei and we’re off after breakfast to Yangmingshan. Great aunt Yumei came by the hotel with some lantern fruit to share (mirabelles), as well as two other indigenous Taiwanese fruit that Uncle Gu had earmarked for us the night before: pipa枇杷 and xiantao仙桃. Love the diversity of local fruit in these tropical climates - and most of the best ones don’t tend to be exported, certainly not to Europe.

      At Yangmingshan, we did an easy walking trail together - Great aunt is over 80 years old after all. The Erziping Trail itself is supposed to be the only part of the mountain altered by people - the rest has been left natural to the greatest possible extent. Especially after having toured a bit around places like India and Bali, the lack of litter around Taipei is really refreshing. It seems to reflect the community’s respect for each other and for their shared environment - who would want to be the first to spoil such a pristine landscape?

      It was wonderful to get away from the city. We could easily understand why people would come out to Erziping to enjoy an afternoon with friends. And Great aunt Yumei is a super trooper, as we ended up doing over 10,000 steps per day every day that we were touring with her in Taipei. If we can all, at 80, still physically do that 4 days running, we should count ourselves so lucky. (Oh, and even when encouraging the kids to walk 10,000 steps a day, Mommy is still in the wrong as that is apparently too many steps - damages the joints - 6,000 to 7,000 is the optimal target... It really is impossible to please Chinese elders.)
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    • Gün 57

      Happy early Qingming festival (清明節)

      26 Mart 2019, Tayvan ⋅ ⛅ 20 °C

      Qingmingjie is an important Chinese festival for paying respect to deceased ancestors. It is a time to come together to visit and clean清 the old family tombs. We were very lucky with the sabbatical (and side-trip) timing to have the chance to be in Taipei just a week before the actual festival (which is on the 4th of April) to visit the final resting place of Nai-nai and Yeh-yeh in Yangmingshan.

      Fortunately, Nai-nai and Yeh-yeh's urns are located such that we could knock politely on their little doors to say hi. Neither of them had met Davy or Meg yet - Yeh-yeh had barely even met Mommy! We hope that they were happy to meet the next generation and are satisfied with how we all turned out. After chatting a bit about death and cremation, whether the people buried in the big tombs outside were all there with their skin and bones intact, etc., we spoke briefly of what Mommy and Poppy wanted to do after dying, aside from give them all our money to buy Teslas.

      Meg then became rather fascinated by the fact that she was named after Nai-nai and shares both her family name Su蘇 and middle name Yu玉. She may actually turn out to have a lot in common with her great grandma when she grows up - both are stubborn queens and of course never wrong! Hopefully Nai-nai will be able to look in on Meg from time to time and keep her on the right track. Davy was a bit sad about not being named after a family member. Thankfully, he then found out that he was named after a great Chinese engineering master who designed and built the first railways. He was pensive for a moment after that - perhaps even suitably pleased.
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    • Gün 53

      Nationales Palastmuseum 🤩

      7 Mart, Tayvan ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C

      Das Nationale Palastmuseum in Taipei hat eine der größten Sammlungen chinesischer Schätze mit vielen Relikten aus der „Verbotenen Stadt“ 🤩😍 Sehr beeindruckend!!!

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