6/28 順義&national palace

We went to 順義 museum in the morning. Today I finally figured out what different between pottery and porcelain. It like porcelain is refined pottery and covers with glaze. I also learned some instruments of aboriginal people such as nose flute and Jew's harp. I found out they have common function among different tribes. All these instruments are created for expressing sadness because man are not allowed to cry in their religion. So the sound of this kind of instruments are like people crying. Actually I tried jew's harp before and it was quite hard to make it to be a song. The tension of the rope is the way to change the tone. What I mean is that you cannot make the same rhythm twice. Another interesting part is rice wine. I make rice wine as well but it different from the way they make it. The process of aboriginal one is more complex. We had a quite delicate lunch beside the museum. In other words, you need to wait for a long time. We wait for an hour! Later we visited national palace. We learned porcelain history in there but I not going to talk in detail. I only want to mention two things. If you draw the color first than cover with glaze, the surface will be smooth. However, if you exchange the order of the process, the drawing will protrude our a little bit. The second thing is that you cannot recognize the real color of glaze unless being fired. And different temperature will make the color be different. Consequently, it needs a lot of experience and practice to make a such beautiful and colorful vast.
I'm sorry there's no picture today. These two museum are not allowed to take picture.

6/26

We really had a tight schedule today. First, we have some lessons about how to do an environmental experiment and Taiwanese rural culture. Then we went to 鶯歌. We do some DIY there but unfortunately we didn't do the potters. Well today I found Nethon loved Japanese animation as well. The most exciting campaign we did today was watching frog in 富陽 park. Now I can recognize four frogs sound and there's appearance. We also encountered the snake. The species of it is 大頭蛇. I did see the fire fly and I found it was so tiny. It was only 3mm long. It's incredible that a tiny bug can shine so brightly.

A special decoration

3D printing!! It's just so cool. you can nearly print out the structure you want!

6/27

Another shiny hot day. We headed to marine museum this morning. I saw lots of weird looking fish. I never know 石斑 can grow to about one meter big and weight about 50kg. I learned a now conception today that vegetarian fish actually love to eat meat. They were called vegetarian fish because they can not catch fish. I learned lots of algaes as well. The colorful spots on the tidal zoom were actually the coral algae. We usually separate algaes into three groups 綠藻、紅藻 and 褐藻. We visited the tidal zoom at northeast Taiwan in this afternoon. We encountered 陽遂足、海參、海葵、crabs and sponge. I found that sponges actually quite hard. I'm lucky that I found flatworm but it was transparent one. We didn't find any colorful flatworm or sea rabbit. I just love tidal zoom so much. I hope we can spend more time there. 

unicorn fish!! (reducing water resistance)

6/25

Today I really had good  day. I love hiking so much and I finally reached the main peak of Mt. Qixing. Why I so exciting about reaching the main peak of Mt. Qixing is that actually I planed to do today's schedule in last winter vacation. However, the weather was so bad during the time. Wind blew heavily and fog was so thick that I couldn't figure out where should i put my next step. That why I'm so happy. The weather was still hot and humid in the afternoon and made me exhausted. Sorry I forgot to mention one thing that I saw the sulfur crystal!! I  mean the real crystal one which you usually cannot see it. We had dinner in 士林 night market. I ate 十全排骨 which is my favorite and mango snow ice. After today's night market experience, I got a conclusion that never eat in the famous or big night market. All the food was just so expensive. We didn't went bowling tonight. Everyone was tired after the long trip and me too. Good night~~

6/24

Today we experienced the harvest in the morning. Even i'm Taiwanese, I didn't know how to do the harvest in the traditional way because we usually machine nowadays so it was quite interesting. We have three lessons today. Actually, it was hard to keep the concentration during all lessons. I learned a lot of English in the lessons and I did  learn some new knowledge about the Taiwan. I think the most interesting part was the wasp part. I didn't know how did they do the pollinating job in detail before but I learned how it works today. It's really cool. Well, this night I was not the guide for dinner. We went to enjoy the 永康牛肉麵 by MRT. It's really delicious but expensive as well. After dinner, some of them played basketball with the guy at elementary school and some girls were learning 廣場舞(a kind of exercise for elder after dinner in china). We have a good night.

We use specific triangle stinger rolling machine to separate the grains and straw.

 We play basketball at elementary school.

永康牛肉麵

6/23

      Yesterday i just too tired to do anything after BACT even though we didn't really do something. I went to bed about 9:30pm and woke up at 8:00am. Today we have Scavenger Hunt in the morning. It's fun but well our team got the lowest point. That doesn't really matter because I think the most important part of this game for me is making friend. The lessons in the afternoon were about Fauna of Taiwan and River Ecosystems of Taiwan. For Taiwanese students, the most hard thing absolutely is English. For example, I know the answer is reservoir but i just  forgot the word. Otherwise, the lessons are not really hard. It's just an overall introduction of Taiwan. The most important part is the fish ladder. I used to considering it was a good thing but in fact is not. Tonight 博宇 and I have the dinner with 5 foreign friends coming for Maryland and Australia. We had a good time and i teach them how to make rice wine. I also learn they produce kangaroo meat and crocodile meat in Australia even koala. This really surprised me.