Thus, Miss You asked me to share all the details that happened in the two days and we may grab the point later.
Day 1
When we first arrived, lines of students from Lin Fen stood there waiting outside our bus.
Students from different groups came and give us gifts according to the class we were going to.
It was just in time for them doing the break time exercise.
Our partners took us strolling in their campus, taking a look at the buildings, their dormitories, and there was even a big lake!
When we got into the crowd, some juniors from their school came to us.
Some girls kept coiling my arm, telling me how much they desire for Taiwan; including our freedom contrast to theirs, and the way we speak etc.
They really wanted to spend more time with us but since they weren't in the second grade, they didn't get the qualifications.
They said only by this time, they could get a chance to peek at us.
They kept me company on the way back to the classroom.
They even said, "See the passer-bys' admirable gazes!"
The class I stayed for the two days was Class 473.
We took physic and history class this day.
Though it seemed that I'd learned the chapter of physics already, I couldn't really understand what the teacher were talking about. I'm not sure if it was because of the different terms or I just forgot what I've learned.
To my surprise, I find the lay outs of their history textbooks really different from ours.
Soon it was time for lunch and we went to the dining hall.
We'd never seen such a scene before--so many people in so big a hall, waiting for lunch.
Some food there were really cheap, you can get a big bowl of noodles just with less than 5 NT dollars!
After lunch, we got back to the classroom and watch the movie "Step Back to Glory", which was mostly filmed in our school, with the students there.
We were scheduled to do a report after the movie watching, but time wasn't enough, and we went on with another activity--the erudition competition.
After the competition(we lost), most of us go visit an art exhibition in their school. However, because Crystal and I were the comperes of the presentation in the evening, and we had to collaborate with the comperes from Lin Fen, so both sides decided to have dinner together and we may discuss our lines.
During our communication, we got familiar with each other, about ourselves and mostly learning the differences of hosting manners.
We turned out to be really different. Their style was kind of inflexible, which is safer, while ours was more lively.
No one is definitely better or worse. I really admire their rhetoric, since it would get me forever to write something like that on my own.
I was worried about the difference in the beginning, afraid that they might not accept our words.
Fortunately, they like it. Yet I think learning the difference between each other is the main purpose of this academic exchange.
There they were the student council who run the whole show. What's more, one of their hosts is the chairman of the student council, so we got to meet many members of them and cooperate with them, which was my pleasure.
Their capability in handling the whole activity surprised me; I especially worship their vice-chairperson, a cute but shrewd girl.
Throughout the show, though there were some little accidents, but I still consider it a satisfactory performance.
I feel pretty much confident in the process, and the deepest impression I got is:
I really love the tacit understanding between strangers first met and able to complete a task together.
I think that Crystal and I are the people who reaped the most.
There was another thing that inspired me:
Phoebe's music for her presentation had some problem and we tried several times. I even asked the teacher who was in charge of the sound control if we should give up.
However, he kept trying, and when we finally succeeded, he told us, "After this experience, we should learn that no matter what we encounter, we should conquer it!"
Isn't that uplifting?
We had math, biology, English, and Chinese class this day.
For math class, I didn't have too much thoughts.
For biology, I considered the teacher a cool and humorous one, and quite charming.
For English, to be really honest, their grammar was not bad, but when it comes to pronunciation, we win.
For Chinese, I really broadened my horizons. They had so many poems memorized in their head; they could speak frankly with assurance about their opinions when the teacher asked them to.
After lunch, again, was our time to share something with them.
I first introduced our class to them, how we were formed and what we do...etc.
After some introduction of books and displaying some of my silly works, I asked them to ask me questions.
We talked about studies, simplified and traditional Chinese characters, spelling methods, and so on. I even showed them New Taiwan dollars.
I think it was really cute of them when some of them were curious and try to ask some embarrassing questions, the others would stop them and tell us not to keep it in mind.
(Sorry that I had to jump over the part of the English class by Miss You first. I'll make up for it other time.)
Though we had only got along for less than two days, memories and what I'd learned from them will never fade away even we said goodbye. "A hedge between keeps friendship green." In fact, we could still get in touch by the internet!
Though it seemed that I'd learned the chapter of physics already, I couldn't really understand what the teacher were talking about. I'm not sure if it was because of the different terms or I just forgot what I've learned.
To my surprise, I find the lay outs of their history textbooks really different from ours.
Soon it was time for lunch and we went to the dining hall.
We'd never seen such a scene before--so many people in so big a hall, waiting for lunch.
Some food there were really cheap, you can get a big bowl of noodles just with less than 5 NT dollars!
After lunch, we got back to the classroom and watch the movie "Step Back to Glory", which was mostly filmed in our school, with the students there.
We were scheduled to do a report after the movie watching, but time wasn't enough, and we went on with another activity--the erudition competition.
After the competition(we lost), most of us go visit an art exhibition in their school. However, because Crystal and I were the comperes of the presentation in the evening, and we had to collaborate with the comperes from Lin Fen, so both sides decided to have dinner together and we may discuss our lines.
During our communication, we got familiar with each other, about ourselves and mostly learning the differences of hosting manners.
We turned out to be really different. Their style was kind of inflexible, which is safer, while ours was more lively.
No one is definitely better or worse. I really admire their rhetoric, since it would get me forever to write something like that on my own.
I was worried about the difference in the beginning, afraid that they might not accept our words.
Fortunately, they like it. Yet I think learning the difference between each other is the main purpose of this academic exchange.
There they were the student council who run the whole show. What's more, one of their hosts is the chairman of the student council, so we got to meet many members of them and cooperate with them, which was my pleasure.
Their capability in handling the whole activity surprised me; I especially worship their vice-chairperson, a cute but shrewd girl.
Throughout the show, though there were some little accidents, but I still consider it a satisfactory performance.
I feel pretty much confident in the process, and the deepest impression I got is:
I really love the tacit understanding between strangers first met and able to complete a task together.
I think that Crystal and I are the people who reaped the most.
There was another thing that inspired me:
Phoebe's music for her presentation had some problem and we tried several times. I even asked the teacher who was in charge of the sound control if we should give up.
However, he kept trying, and when we finally succeeded, he told us, "After this experience, we should learn that no matter what we encounter, we should conquer it!"
Isn't that uplifting?
Day 2
We again arrived at Lin Fen and started a new day with them, still the same excited feeling.We had math, biology, English, and Chinese class this day.
For math class, I didn't have too much thoughts.
For biology, I considered the teacher a cool and humorous one, and quite charming.
For English, to be really honest, their grammar was not bad, but when it comes to pronunciation, we win.
For Chinese, I really broadened my horizons. They had so many poems memorized in their head; they could speak frankly with assurance about their opinions when the teacher asked them to.
After lunch, again, was our time to share something with them.
I first introduced our class to them, how we were formed and what we do...etc.
After some introduction of books and displaying some of my silly works, I asked them to ask me questions.
We talked about studies, simplified and traditional Chinese characters, spelling methods, and so on. I even showed them New Taiwan dollars.
I think it was really cute of them when some of them were curious and try to ask some embarrassing questions, the others would stop them and tell us not to keep it in mind.
(Sorry that I had to jump over the part of the English class by Miss You first. I'll make up for it other time.)
Though we had only got along for less than two days, memories and what I'd learned from them will never fade away even we said goodbye. "A hedge between keeps friendship green." In fact, we could still get in touch by the internet!
