Day 6: Students and TAPIE 101...
Well today was another long day. we visited Joy Enterprises. Joy is responsible for providing materials and training teachers for teaching English to the people of all ages in Taiwan. Both native English Speakers and native Chinese Speakers, they have one of each teach each classes. They had us participate in a demonstration as well as the standard speeches to show us how they teach and the ideas behind their business. After wards, we got to talk to the employees of Joy Enterprises, which was fun. They gave us lots of materials that they use and their presentational stuff. It was interesting, and on our way back to the Metro to get back to the hotel to change/ get lunch, we stopped in a Dunkin' Donuts.
After that, we headed to National Taiwan University, or NTU. NTU is the Havard or Yale of college students in Taiwan. This as famous as any of the Ivy league school in America. For this, we broke off into groups and discussed a case study about Quanta computers. Basically, Quanta tried to build a $100 computer to bridge the technological gap in poorer countries, and failed to meet the hundred dollar goal. We were tasked with discussing whether the computer would actually work, and if it would damage sales of normal computers. The discussion between students at least in my group wasn't very aggressive, but the professor was quite aggressive in attacking any Students reasoning. I sparred back.
After that they gave a short Calligraphy lession/demonstration, I have a lovely piece of Art that says Green warm and Fuzzy in Chinese. It was interesting to explain this to both my classmates and the NTU students, why this is important to me.
After wards, Trey, Charles, and I were shown around Taiwan by one of the students at NTU, Derrik. Derrik is a really cool guy and quite cute. ^.^ He took us out to eat some of the local foods. We went to two different restuarants, I ate at the first one, but was quite full and just watched the other eat at the other. Then Derrick took us to a five story bookstore,yes, I do mean a bookstore that's five stories tall and architurely was quite pretty. It had every book on every subject in half a dozen languages at the very least. Trey and I bought gift wrap for your presents for students we meet tomorrow.
Derrik then took us to Taipei 101 which is the tallest building in the world, counting on who you talk to on what day of the week, at 101 stories tall. We went up to the top floor that they would let us go to, which was the 91st floor I believe. The view was amazing, the fact that we went at night made it all the better because we could see all of the lights in the buildings, though I would have liked to come back up during the day and been able to see some of the nature landmarks of Taipei. After that we parted ways and I came to write this mess. I have really bad handwriting. Seriously, my notes from yesterday are barely readable.
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