A field trip

Yesterday our kind hosts took us for a field trip to Hakka Museum (Hakka are one of the minorities in Taiwan). The museum itself was not very interesting, because it was still under construction, but afterwards we had some DIY activities and we painted traditional Hakka umbrellas, so that was fun.

After the museum, we went to a small town called Qishan for our lunch break. As I said before, people here are really serious about their meals, so there always has to be a meal break. We wandered on the old street of the town for a bit and finally settled in a place that offered roast duck. I had an amazing soup with noodles and pieces of roast duck for 50 NT (which is about 6 złotych or 2 dollars)  and later a huge iced mango tea (which had chunks of mango floating in it). Needless to say, I was satisfied with my meal. We also saw a small taoist temple in Qishan, where we burned some incense (yes, I did sneeze a lot) and bought some "protective charms".

At the end of our trip we visited the Shanhe Brick Kiln, were we could see the place that they fired ceramics and we could make a clay picture of sorts there. They took it for firing, and they will send it to our University, so we'll have to wait a while for the results.

On the bus we sang karaoke - of course, a good bus trip in Asia cannot be without karaoke. Still, I haven't been to a karaoke place here yet and I'm looking forward to it.

I'm also happy that my Mandrin is slowly getting better and better. I hope I can communicate more fluently by the end of this month...

                                            Umbrella painting:

                                           The Taoist temple in Qishan: