Field Trips on July 16-17

On Monday, July 16, the students enrolled in the Summer English Program, their American teachers, and the teaching assistants boarded busses and traveled to the Taiwan Soya-mixed Meat Museum. The owner of this thriving food production business is Ms. Chen, a graduate of San Sin High School.  The group toured the museum and production areas, learning how tofu, seaweed, "iron eggs", and other food favorites are mass-produced, packaged, and shipped. 

They were treated to a presentation by Ms. Chen, in which she described the history of the company and how they reached their current level of production. The group was served a delicious noodle lunch. Then, they learned through direct experience how to make "iron eggs."  Step-by-step they were guided through the process, and each person present ended up with four cooked eggs to take home.  The eggs would be ready to eat after a few days left in the home refrigerator!

Finally, when all eggs were cooked, packaged, and sealed for taking home, Ms. Chen led the group in a funny song and dance, making everyone laugh and laugh as they tried to follow her ever-changing moves!  (See the short video below!)  She generously presented gifts of packaged food to the American teachers, and the group climbed on the bus to travel back to school.  Many of the students were absolutely exhausted from the excursion!

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On Tuesday, July 17, the San Sin students and their teachers attended a large exhibit located near the Dream Mall entitled "River of Wisdom - Animated Version of the Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival."   The original masterpiece by Zhang Zeduan of the Song Dynasty is located in the National Palace Museum.  Thirty times its original size, this Animated Version of the "Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival," produced with modern multimedia technology, is projected onto a giant screen more than 120 meters long and six meters high.  

The painting shows such details as moving adults and children, running water, goods being displayed for sale, boats moving through the river, camels carrying crates on their backs, and many other images. The animated exhibition gives the observers the feeling that they are in Bianjing, the capital of the Northern Song dynasty 900 years ago.  It was a rare opportunity for the American teachers as well as the San Sin students to learn about the culture and wisdom of the hard-working Chinese people who lived during the Song dynasty!