tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26471486755147094812024-03-18T20:08:29.003-07:00Gone to Taiwan- Summer 2012Jenny Colvillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12198389876154698283noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2647148675514709481.post-67402341334388608622012-07-21T16:36:00.000-07:002012-07-21T16:36:31.807-07:00Zài Jiàn (Good-bye!)Wow, the day has finally come. And I definitely underestimated how hard last night would be to say goodbye to everyone! You never know how close you get to people until you have to part with them. I am so grateful for the friendships I've made in BACT, and we all want to try to stay close, even when living half a world apart. We are already planning our next reunion. A little hopeful? Probably, but it makes it easier to say "See you later!" It was even emotional saying goodbye to my favorite professors on the trip, like Dr. Tsai, the adorable entomologist who came to many of our events, as well as Jack, our superman coordinator who made our trip so smooth and with relatively no problems the whole four weeks! He was our teacher, tour guide, chauffeur, mom, dad, doctor, mediator, crossing guard, banker, and friend. These people are all so special, including my labmates and the zoo keepers from the first month. I could go on and on, but this is hard enough as it is!<br />
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Anyway, to finish out my experience here, our group actually went back to the zoo, and we even got to go behind the scenes to where I worked in my internship! I was so excited to surprise my old friends that I got to see them again and catch up, even for just a few minutes. I got to say a last goodbye to my favorite orangutans and tigers, and my best friend, Big Fatty, the giant land tortoise. If no one else will, I'm sure he'll keep in contact with me.....<br />
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After that, several of us went to the Hello Kitty restaurant, a long-awaited Taipei specialty that is any little girl's dreamland for a birthday party. I honestly would still want mine there too. EVERYTHING was pink and decked out, including our adorable but slightly pricey five-course meal. They also had a bakery with equally adorable cakes. Sometimes I'm not sure how our guy-friend Tracey, from China studying in America, manned up to go with us, but he stayed strong the whole time. This place would definitely do well in the States.<br />
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After that we visited the NTU animal hospital. The building there is huge and reminded me alot of the facility ar Purdue. Though the technology was all very familiar to me, what was most fascinating was how the vet program is set up. While in the US to become a vet, most people will complete their undergraduate degree (or most of it) go to vet school for four years, complete their internships and residencies, and then if they don't specialize further into a specific field, they can start to practice. For the NTU vet program, there is no undergraduate program, or pre-vet major. The students go to vet school straight out of high school! This absolutely blows my mind, as I still have no idea what I want to do with my life. How could a high school graduate know exactly that they want to be a vet? The program is an intensive five year program, and after completing, graduates are allowed to be on the national board, complete an internship, and start practicing. Sounds a little crazy to me, but from what I could observe, the staff seemed just as knowledgeable and qualified as any American practice.<br />
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We have also finally completed our final presentations and research papers, which is the final checkmark of the program for us! What a relief, and I do believe I heard the professor say that we had A quality work. Though our results were laughable, they still appreciate that we clearly understood the objective of the project, and that's all that matters. To celebrate the end, we went to a very nice hotel restaurant that served western food! It was so good, with a buffet and an entree, and not a roundtable dinner. I even had to relearn how to eat my salmon with a knife and fork! And there were POTATOES with it too! Though not exactly Asian, it was the perfect last supper. We took about two hours in the restaurant taking pictures with every possible combination of people; I feel so terrible for the other people in the restaurant. Many were teary-eyed once again, but we all knew it was coming. After the dinner, many of us finally went to KTV, something I've been waiting to do since the first weekend I was here! We went into a room much smaller than I expected, with tables and booth-couches on the wall facing a big screen TV. The room was even complete with our own private bathroom, which just proves how obsessed people are with KTV here; with food service available, no one ever has to leave! People can stay here for six hours and not get tired of it! I thought it was a blast, but I could not have stayed over three hours. If there had been room to dance however....we Americans would have enjoyed it much more! It was a great way to end my stay here in Taiwan, but it took us forever to separate at the end. Thank goodness for Facebook! Even the Chinese students promise they will figure out illegal ways to stay in contact with us, since FB is forbidden in China. Or well just have to come back to visit them...<br />
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How is it the end? I'm feeling very confused right now; I have no clue what to think. I remember writing down when I first got here how I was an emotional roller coaster. I am feeling the exact same way now! I am beyond excited to finally go home, but I did not even think how much I care about all the students in the program, or having the opportunity to live in such a beautiful country. That's something I feel so lucky to have gotten to experience- that I didn't just vacation here, I actually got to<em> live</em> here. It's a major difference, something that is going to really help me later in life. And I am so glad that I chose to document my time as often as I could while staying here; it has helped me focus on the important parts of my trip and get my thoughts down. For those of you regularly reading about my trip, I hope you've enjoyed it all and that maybe you got a tiny, microscopic taste of what life is like here. Words cannot not describe nearly well enough, however; you must be here to experience to even come close to understanding! I hope that is not something that I struggle with when I go home- that no one will understand what this experience was like for me. At least my new friends here will understand completely!<br />
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Please ask me any questions about my trip at anytime, or if there is anything that I should have mentioned in my blog. There is so much going on here that I can't possibly write it all down or take pictures of everything (I don't think I could take another tourist picture if I tried). My ride to the airport will be here in just a couple short hours, and then the wonderful 13 hour flight to LA. My 10 hour lay-over there should be pretty fun, as my great aunt and uncle who live there are going to pick my up and head to Santa Monica pier to meet my cousin for a couple hours, who has an internship in Cali. I've been looking at the weather, and it looks about perfect. I'm not sure I remember what <99% humidity feels like. The weather in Indiana looks like a different story. Joy.... Please pray that all goes smoothly, and that THIS is my last post; I don't want to have anything to report about my flight!!!!!<br />
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Alright America, get ready, cause I'm coming home :)<br />
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Vanilla Pudding! </div>
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NTU Vet Hospital</div>
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Last picture with my groupmates!</div>
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Saying bye to the guys!</div>
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My western friends :)</div>
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I thought Jack was a nice guy.....</div>
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Dr. Tsai!!</div>
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Hanging out at KTV</div>Jenny Colvillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12198389876154698283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2647148675514709481.post-53181223656419232722012-07-19T05:10:00.001-07:002012-07-19T05:10:57.206-07:00Mǐ (rice!)The end is in sight! Only three more nights until departure day. I have been looking forward to it for so long, until it hit me today. If I go home, that means I have to leave all these awesome people behind! So not fair! Today, Dr. Tom Gavin, the retired professor from Cornell University, as well as his wife, who have been traveling with us the whole time (I can't even remember if I have mentioned them or not! I feel terrible if I haven't. They've been a big part of the trip.), said their goodbye's today, because they are leaving a day before us. Dr. Tom has taught several of the lectures along the way, and gave us all some comic relief throughout the trip with his stereotypical American sense of humor. Don't worry Dad, I got my fill of "dad jokes" this past month. The Asian students have been in love with him the whole time. Many got teary-eyed when he gave his goodbye lecture, which was mainly just showing pictures he managed to capture of us sleeping with mouths wide open on the bus... me being a culprit, just one time. That made me realize how hard Saturday night is going to be, when we have our closing ceremony together. I just won't think about it until then.<br />
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On a different note, I believe our experiment went rather well, if you are looking for accuracy and not actually learning anything.... While at the Experimental Forest, my group and I measured trees- many, many trees, and gathered the data we needed to see how much CO2 they have taken in the last five years. We did all the calculations correctly, even under the intense scrutiny of the researcher at the forest who was rather protective of his work. The problem? Location, location, location (which I think is going to be the title of our presentation). We barely had any time to make enough samples; we needed to take over 70 sample areas rather than just... three. So besides our approximately 500% error, we had a great project! I did learn alot, but I liked hanging out with my groupmates probably much more.<br />
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On the way back to Taipei, we stopped at the earthquake museum, which was located next to an old junior high school that was nearly demolished in the 1999 earthquake. Again, they left it exactly as it was the day it happened, just as the temple was. It was pretty incredible. Many of the Taiwanese on the trip remember it and where they were when it happened; luckily it was in the middle of the night so no children were in school. School building in that time were very poorily constructed and were the main structures affected by the earthquake. I also didn't realize that there are an average of 4 earthquakes a day in Taiwan! I am grateful that I haven't witnessed anything tragic... but a little shake wouldn't be too much to ask for, right?<br />
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We visited the National Agricultural Institute, which was about as interesting as it sounds. But today was the real ag experience. Can't get enough of eating rice? Then make it yourself! Which is what I did- rice harvesting- fully equipped with sickle and cliché Asian acorn hat. The best part was planting later on, with no shoes and knee-deep, feet-sucking mud and water. All I have to say is rice farmers probably have really nice skin for taking a mud bath everyday.<br />
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I can't believe that I may only have one more post to write after this one! I hope that I can really take advantage of the next two days while I'm here. Too crazy!<br />
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Marking a tree for our project</div>
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My favorite group mates with an old fashion camera! Vivian is on the left, Ivy in front, and Carolina on the right. They're all too cute.</div>
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<br /></div>Jenny Colvillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12198389876154698283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2647148675514709481.post-55806395416444254962012-07-15T02:48:00.000-07:002012-07-15T02:48:21.180-07:00Shíyàn (Experiment)There are only 3 more nights until we're back in Taipei! We are at the last traveling stop, at Sitou Experimental Forest, also owned by NTU. I think most of the places we are visiting are NTU, if I didn't mention that before. Before coming here we stayed one night at Phoenix Tea Farm. We went to the Endemic Specimen Research Institute, endemic meaning species of plants or animals that are only found in one area. Taiwan, being an isolated island, has many endemic species, which we hear about ALL the time, and they are very proud of it! I thought the institute was very interesting, as well as the Wildlife Rescue Center that was nearby. I volunteered at a rehabilitation center last summer near Hope, IN, and the animals being housed there were mostly raptors (birds of prey), so I was very familiar with it. We also had a lecture on bats with the most adorable speaker I think we've had yet. He was very passionate and even read us the popular children's book Stellaluna, a story about a bat who thought she was a bird. He even brought in a live bat and let it fly around the room for us. Also that day we visited the Mingsin Academy, a previous school built before Japanese rule, as well as a famous temple that was near the epicenter of the huge 1999 earthquake. No one ever touched the building, so it was so neat to see how the first floor completely caved in, but the rest of the temple just sunk down one level! <br />
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We had a tour of the tea garden the next day and then learned the extremely intricate process of serving tea. No, you dont just turn the hot water on, mix some leaves, and drink it. Everything must be done so precisely and each cup and pitcher warmed before serving and the leaves brewed at the exact temperature and brewing time according to how many cups have been served. There's even a correct way to swallow the tea! Wow, culture is really a strange thing. We also learned about the process of harvesting tea leaves. Did you know that only the top three leaves of each plant are harvested? I can't imagine how many plants there have to be in order to keep up with such a high demand! I still don't completely understand it, but that's what they said. We even got to try a tea that costs over $100 US a bag! We might as well have been drinking money, because it was disgusting. <br />
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We visited a specialty bamboo store with the most expensive knick knacks I've ever seen. They let us play with tradtional Chinese jewelry and storage boxes that have a secret puzzle in order to open them. Some were impossible to do, but I did figure out my first one after about half an hour. I have to say, this country makes me feel intelligent...<br />
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Now that we are at Sitou, we have had several completely invigorating lectures, one being a two hour presentation on soil this morning, as well as exploring and brainstorming ideas for our group project. We finally presented our proposal this afternoon- in very short terms, we are going to use a method of measuring tree growth, specifically Japanese Cryptomeria growth, to interpret carbon dioxide concentration in the local atmosphere. Not my specialty, but I will be stretching myself with this one I am sure! It shouldn't be too hard as we have alot of help from researchers and professors here at the forest, and today we learned how to take the different measurements, so hopefully everything from here on out goes smoothly! We will do our final presentation once we get back to Taipei. <br />
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One thing that has been a little surprising here is the amount of tourists. When I saw that we were coming to an experimental forest on the itinerary, I was expecting that we would be going into the rea,l deep forest in the middle of nowhere on top of some mountaintop sleeping next to monkeys and snakes and what not. Well, that is slightly exaggerated, but this place seems more like a little nature Disney World than an experimental forest. Actaully many of the places we have visited on this trip have been a little bit that way. I definitely have not been disappointed by anything by any means, but I think I just need to remember that I am in Asia, where over half the world's population exists, probably. There seems to be no real line of where the "wild" starts here; there's just too many people. It's a little bit sad, but I also don't want to make any conclusions when I have not seen all of Taiwan, or all of Asia for that matter!<br />
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We have two full days here to work on our project, four more nights in Taipei, and then I am finally homeward bound! At this exact time next week, my plane will be taking off for Los Angeles. I can't believe it sometimes, but I still feel like I have been here FOREVER! I'm 7/8th's done, woohoo!<br />
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At the Tea farm</div>
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Getting ready to show off my tea serving skills</div>
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Bamboo Iphone case... don't ask how much it was</div>
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A boulder in Sitou that also fell off the mountainside in the 1999 earthquake. It must have rolled a mile before it landed here!</div>Jenny Colvillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12198389876154698283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2647148675514709481.post-55592145067827521202012-07-11T07:03:00.000-07:002012-07-15T01:47:35.949-07:00Shān (Mountain!)I feel like if I don't write soon enough, I will totally forget everything I have been doing! It's been a great couple of days. We stayed 3 nights at Meifeng farm, and there I think I may have had one of the most fun hiking experiences ever! We climbed Hehuan Mountain at Taroko National Park, and the scenary was absolutely beautiful. It reminded me very much of what the Alps must look like- completely green and one of those you-have-to-be-there kind of places. The people I was with made it to the top first, by a long shot! So on our way back down, we had a little bit more fun and took some more "dangerous paths." My friend Fan and I probably would have had many of the teachers freaking out when we passed maybe one or two signs saying "do not enter, precipitous path." There was no way to resist though. I definitely had my adrenaline rush for the day. <br />
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Some other things we did at the farm were sugar beet "harveting" (aka making fruit juice), tomato harvesting (aka tomato-eating), early morning bird-watching (so difficult- groan), night moth observation, amd tours around the different experimental gardens. Many of the places we are staying at are actually owned by NTU, so much of it is for research purposes. Though I am learning alot through this whole program, many of the things we see I have a feeling are not genuine examples of agriculture here in Taiwan, but a good idea of it anyway. Also while staying here we went to a place called Cingjing Farm, which seemed more like an amusement park for little kids, and it is a shame that this is what many people are being shown what a farm is. We saw a sheep show, where a man from New Zealand, who reminded me alot of any American cowboy with his humor and mannerisms, sheared a sheep and shocked people by his talent of auctioning, which no one here has ever heard before. It was pretty hilarious to see their reactions. When leaving the farm, we went to visit a place called Sun Moon Lake, which actually was a favorite vacation spot of Chang Kai-Shek. We even got to see the church he went to while there. And of course, just as last summer I was picked to do a Masai tribal dance in Kenya, I was brutally forced against my will to perform a Taiwanese aboriginal dance... well not really, but I think Masai is more my style, personally. <br />
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I am now at Shuili Wood Utilization Center, which is also owned by NTU. We have learned and seen the process of lumber-making, as well as some very beautiful wooden artwork and furniture in the exhibition center. I have actually made 2 different pieces while here, with my superior artistic abilities. I made the Chinese rubiks cube-like puzzle, which I hope I will remember how to solve when I get home, as well as a stool, which took almost the entire day to make. I am pretty proud of myself to say the least. <br />
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One thing I have to say however; I am getting very tired of rice- VERY! Each meal we have what they call a round-table. We never have our own plate of food. Many dishes are put in the center, and we have or own little bowl of rice and use our chopsticks to take bits of food to mix with the rice with in the bowl. It's all really delicious, but we have it EVERYDAY, every meal. Some of us Americans are getting desparate to get some kind of carbohydrate that isn't rice. So I actually bought a loaf of bread, and sometimes I sneak it in my backpack to dinner and we all take a slice instead of eating the rice! I didn't realize how much I missed just a plain slice of sandwich bread! Now that I am writing about it, it seems kind of funny. One of my roommates here from China was telling me that if she doesn't eat any rice for about 3 days she will get a severe stomachache. It's amazing how different we are!<br />
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We now have our groups picked out of the reseach project we are supposed to do in a couple of days at a place called Sitou Experimental Forest, also owned by NTU. Two of my groupmates are from NTU- Carolina and Ivy, and one is from China, Vivian. We will now be living together for the rest of the time outside of Taipei. We have gotten along great and are good friends already. The project we are doing is just a couple day experiment based on anything we can find inside the forest, with very limited time and resources. I have no idea yet what we're going to do yet... if you have any ideas or suggestions, let me know! Anything where reliable results are generated would be fantastic. <br />
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Only 11 more days left! I am having the time of my life, but so ready to just relax for a little while. My brain has never absorbed this much in such a short amount of time. I am sad to know that I am missing essential summer things like the county fair, family parties, the swimming pool, and hanging out at the horse barn, but the sacrifice for this trip has been worth it, for the most part. Looks like I will have some catching up to do once I get home.<br />
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Hiking in Hehuan Mountain</div>
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<br /></div>Jenny Colvillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12198389876154698283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2647148675514709481.post-22549547968742073522012-07-07T01:28:00.001-07:002012-07-07T01:28:42.502-07:00Hǎiyáng (Ocean!)First things first... I am so grateful for an experienced, talented bus driver! In the past, I have had some pretty risky, an-inch-from-the-edge-of-a-cliff drives, but never in a 50 passenger tour bus. Hopefully we will be in just as good of hands for the rest of the trip! <br />
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We have been to some awesome places while traveling outside of Taipei. The first day outside of the city, we visited the gold ecological park, where I didn't realize that gold and coal were such a huge industries here in Taiwan several decades ago. We also went to the touristy town of Jiufen and stayed in the town of Shifen that is famous for its floating lanterns. That evening we got to make our own and send them off to the sky with our wishes written on them. It was so beautiful, and our lanterns looked like stars, something I haven't seen since being home! Some of the lanterns in the distance had firecrackers on the end of them, which seemed very appropriate and nolstalgic for the Americans, since it was July 4th! But we just got to celebrate it a little differently this year. <br />
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The next day we listened to a lecture and visited King Car Orchid Park, another huge industry here in Taiwan. While in the US, orchids can cost around $40 a plant, and here they are only about $3! I was considering buying some seeds to take home with me and starting my own business and droping out of college, but I'm fairly sure that's illegal, and it is extremely difficult to raise them. It was a good try though. They were very beautiful flowers, and I was hoping we would be able to see the species that cost around $200,000 a plant! I still don't understand how a flower can cost that much.<br />
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We have seen some gorgeous coastline views that are breath-taking along the way to our different stops! The east coast is rocky with tall cliffs that drop right into the ocean, while the west coast, which we won't be visiting, is flat with sandier beaches. That afternoon we stopped at Cingshui Cliff, which had a rocky beach with stones that were so flat and colorful I wish I could have taken them all home with me. However, the next day may be another favorite of mine. We went to Taroko National Park, where we hiked a trail beside the most bright blue river I have ever seen. It gets its color from a certain mineral in the sediment, but I can't remember what it is. We found a spot that yet again satisfied my climbing needs even more so than any of the other places I have been to! And I was so happy when many others joined me this time. I'm not sure I've ever had so much fun climbing rocks, and that's saying alot! It was sad when we had to leave for Taipei for the night, but I am certain we will still find some great places. I am now at Meifang farm, where we will be staying for three nights before moving on. We will not get back to Taipei for I think 10 more days. <br />
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Of course all great times never come without a price, right? Well the other night while in the town of Hualian, I really needed some medicine for my stomach issues that have never completely gone away. I was hoping to just get some medicine, but here going to the doctor is so cheap that everyone goes to see them for just about everything, even for just a common cold or sore throat. So I decided that I might as well just see a doctor. So my coordinator Jack and another girl from NTU came with me to find a "clinic", and we found one, but we walked right past it not even realizing what it was. Not a good first sign. According to Jack, it looked very "traditional" which is not always a word I have learned to like here. Carolina, the girl who came with me, went to look at the doctor there, which was her way of deciding whether we should stay or go. She came right back and said "Let's go." Then we finally managed to find a real hospital that looked a little more like something at home to me. It was a Buddhist hospital that we believed would surely have English-speaking doctors, as they are pretty much all required to speak English anymore. But with my luck, did mine? Of course not! I felt so so terrible for Carolina, but she had to translate for me for everything! She is such an angel. I owe her so much. Now I have some medicine and will hopefully be feeling better soon. What an experience! <br />
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I also got my first taste of some KTV (karoke) today, however, it was on the bus ride. It was one of the funniest things I've seen in awhile. They are obsessed with it here. The cheesy music videos and 80's Chinese love songs are hilarious. I am excited to go to a real KTV when we get back to Taipei, where big groups of people will rent their own rooms for karoke parties that last all night. It will be interesting; I'll be warming up my vocal cords until then...<br />
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Only 2 more weeks left, and I will finally be home! I had my first real American-like dinner the other night- seafood spaghetti with tomato sauce, if you can call the American, or Western. And it even came with a fork. I never knew I would appreciate efficient silverware so much! Hoping for some pizza, macaroni and cheese, or mashed potatoes in my near future.... I better stop now...<br />
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This place is literally called Pregnant Lady Mountain- can you see her?</div>
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Flora and I with our lantern!</div>
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<br /></div>Jenny Colvillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12198389876154698283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2647148675514709481.post-52799859677633549302012-07-03T07:09:00.000-07:002012-07-03T07:09:05.517-07:00Yángguāng (sunshine!)Wow, another couple of great days in Taiwan. For one reason, we've had clear blue skies for three or four straight days with no afternoon rains! Though the heat and humdity is increasingly getting more intense, I am finally enjoying some consistent sunshine! It is pretty funny to see the western students try to soak up the sun, while the Asians start to complain, pull out their umbrellas, giant hats and even jackets in temperatures nearing 100 degrees F. They don't use sunscreen, which I found surprising since they value white skin. But then I realized why, because they don't burn! So I maybe got a little dark a couple days ago, nothing too extreme but pretty normal for me in the summertime, and the other students kept asking if I was ok, if I had been bitten by large bugs, if I was having a major allergic reaction, or if I needed to go to the hospital! It was pretty funny to tell them that we westerners love the sun, especially those of us who don't get it 12 months of the year, or actually have cold winter times. We were shocked when we asked them how often they go to the beach, since NTU students don't live relatively far away from it, and they pretty much said they never go! Our cultures are so different. Oh, I also learned that instead of getting kids to quit their nap times in Kindergarten, like we do, grades 1 through 12 all get nap times after lunch here! Why can't we do that? I learned when I first got here that many people took naps at work after lunch (after realizing people weren't sick or sad everytime they laid their heads down on their desk), but I didn't realize that they did it with kids and teens at school. It's so funny when we're on the bus and every Asian falls right to sleep with the blinds shut in the afternoon, while the Westerners have our blinds wide open and staring and commenting at the scenary going by, wide awake. They are usually baffled when they wake up and realize we were awake the whole time. <br />
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I feel like I've done quite alot since I last wrote, even though it was only a couple days ago. I went to a place called Danshui on our free day, which I was supposed to go to with my labmates a long time ago but got rained out. We went in the evening, which was the perfect time to go. There is a bridge there called Valentine's bridge, that apparently if you cross it with your lover, you will be together forever! And it is very popular to watch the sunset there, which we got there just in time to see! It was absolutely gorgeous. Then we walked along a night market along the water, which was pretty much the same as the othes but by the ocean made it so much better! <br />
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The next day we went to probably my favorite place so far- Yeliu Geopark. It is a tiny peninsula at the northern tip of Taiwan that has some pretty incredible rock formations formed by wind and nature. It reminded me a little bit of a minature Utah park. I still don't understand how it looks the way it does! The place was amazing, and if you know me, you know that I love to climb on top of things, especially large rocks. This place was close to perfect for my addiction. At the entrance to the park there is an area with walkways that takes you around to look at some of the basic formations, and especially the "Queen's Head" rock. But it was pretty small and extremely crowded. Then we were given some free time, and I with two other Americans, Alicia and Corinne, found where to go to reach the very edge of the peninsula. We climbed all the way there, and we were pretty much the only ones around except for a couple of native fishermen. It took alot of time, sun, and sweat, but we eventually got there. Jack, our coordinator for BACT, said it is always the Americans who are the adventurous ones! There's no doubt about that. <br />
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We've been to two different marine museums, one a fisheries research institute and one a fish museum that is supposed to open in about a year. They were a little underwhelming, but interesting all the same. But this afternoon was really fun. We went to the northeast intertidal zone when the water was at lowtide so that we could look at all the animals left behind. We saw Spongebob, Patrick, Mr. Crabs, Gary, Squidward (or close to him), and all their neighbors (we saw sponges, starfish, hermit crabs, sea snails, octopus, and many kinds of fish). And of course, there were plenty of rocks for me to climb. I wish we could have stayed longer!<br />
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Tomorrow morning we leave Taipei! Though we were planning on being gone a total of two weeks, we will only be leaving for two nights, coming back to the dorm for one night, and we will be gone a week and a half more. The place that we had planned to stay at is too dangerous to reach because of falling rocks and blocked roads, so we will have to stay back here again! Scary stuff. But hopefully I will still find time to keep writing while I am away!<br />
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I miss you all. 19 more days!!!<br />
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Don't ever set your water bottle down, or some Asian will come take it and catch an octopus in it!</div>Jenny Colvillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12198389876154698283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2647148675514709481.post-34493626688515492572012-06-30T17:17:00.000-07:002012-06-30T17:17:54.686-07:00Yi, er, san, si, wu... (one, two, three, four, five...)Wow, the things I've seen and done since I last wrote is pretty amazing! The program I'm in really squeezes so much into these four short weeks, and I am exhausted! There's no way I can possibly explain everything I've done, but I can attempt. I really wish I could remember all the weird cultural things I learn throughout the day; those, to me, are sometimes the most interesting!<br />
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Since last time, I've gotten to be a little more familiar with the National Taiwan University Campus. The group played a scavenger hunt (in the 100 degree and almost 100% humidity) and went to the Unversity's history museum. I'm really surprised how many museums are here! I don't think Purdue has any that I know of. We also went to the zoology and insectarium that's here. The collection of insects they have is unbelieveable. They have a huge room that looks more like a library with tons of drawers that has probably 100 insects on each one. The only other things we've done on campus the past week are listening to lectures each day, which are usually extremely exhilarating and an hour and half each, and attempting to take a Chinese course, which failed by the end because we lazy Americans were way too tired by the end of the day to be able to even speak proper English. I can count in Chinese and introduce myself, however. I didn't learn bathroom though, which is probably the most important. But the calligraphy class we took was fun! They all kept asking me if I had written calligraphy before, but they also didn't see me tracing the characters instead of "writing" them... whoooops. <br />
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But the best things I've done this week have been off campus. We went to Yangmingshan National Park, where we hiked a trail on a mountain overlooking Taipei, and also Siaoyoukeng volcanic site. The volcano there has been dormant for several hundred years, but there are still several sulfur steam vents scattered in the area. We've been to the Beitou hot spring museum, which the building used to be used much like a Greek bath, and to Thermal valley, which is where the hot water came from for the baths. We went to a place called Jingshan that grows indigo, which used to be Taiwan's biggest crop aside from rice and tea. We dyed pieces of cloth much like tye-dying- something they really don't do too often here so that was pretty exciting for the Asians. One of my favorite places we've been to is Dharma Drum Mountain, the actual first Buddhist temple I've been too (Longshan temple I saw a long time ago actually wasn't Buddhist, it was Tao). I mainly loved it for its location; it's on top of the mountain over-looking the sea, which I haven't seen yet! It was a very peaceful place, which makes sense, but there wasn't as much "ummmm"ing as I expected. Then we went to the Juming Museum, which may be one of my favorite art museums I've ever seen. It was mostly outside that was full of people figures made from bronze and styrofoam. It was incredible that one person came up with hundreds of different figurines, but his sense of humor and our hilarious tour guide is what kept me interested. Driving back from this museum, we passed a Taiwanese cemetary, which I am not sure why is not a stop on our schedule becasue has some of the most beautiful arcitecture I've ever seen! Instead of stones, these people give their dead whole houses, and there are thousands of these marble houses, and each family uses different colors and styles for their house. They were all placed on a mountainside, and from a distance it looks like a city for the Greek gods or something. I was staring at it all on the bus that I really didn't get any good pictures of it. We've been to the Yingge ceramics museum, which wasn't too intersted except for the pottery that we got to paint in the kids 12 and under room, which fits me perfectly. One night we went on a frog observation, which makes me feel like a real Crocodile hunter now. I'm quite sure our guide was a frog incarnate; he could hear a frog 50 feet away, know exactly where it was, and grab it without missing a beat. Someone apparently needs a life. But we did see nine different frog species, even one endangered one. Yesterday we went to the famous National Palace Museum, which people might of heard of outside of Taiwan along with Taipei 101. Many of the Chinese artifacts were brought here from the Forbidden Cityh in Beijing before the Japanese take over. So all the artifacts we saw were about Chinese history, going back to almost 6,000 B.C. The museum was massive, and we barely saw any of it. We saw 1% of the artifacts displayed, which is 1% of the artifacts stored in the museum, which is 1/4 of the total artifacts that are both in China and Taiwan. It reminded me very much of an Asian Louvre; you would have to spend many years to be able to see everything. I finally got to see the very famous Jade cabbage, which I see magnts and keychains of it everywhere, and now I finally understand why. And of course the famous meat stone- a piece of jasper made to look like a slab or pork. It doesn't surprise me at all that the most famous artifacts are food related here...<br />
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Other than traveling around the Taipei area, I've gotten to know a whole new set of people who are actually more my age (most of the people in the lab and zoo were older than I am). Even thoug I feel like I've been here forever, I am still learning something new everyday about their culture. Oh, I do remember one cultural thing. So a couple of times I've talked to people about tacos, and how we eat them in America often since many of us like Mexican food. Turns out that taco here means octopus. Well I've definitely messed up people's perception of American food. I'm sure the term came about through a mistranslation at some point. I figured it out when the guide at the ceramics museum was discribing a vase in front of us, saying how the top had a big head and base came together at the bottom with lots of legs, like a taco. She certainly knows better now!<br />
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Wow, I still have 3 more weeks to go, and the amount that I am going to see everyday is not going to change! I have traveled to many places, but I've never been on-the-go for this long before. Not that I'm complaining; I feel so lucky that I have the opportunity to do this. But I can't wait to get some breathing time once I come home! I will be in Taipei for three more nights, and then I will finally leave this dorm room for the first time and stay in other hotels and camps as we travel around the island for two weeks exactly. I'm really excited, but I won't lie that I want it to go at least a little bit quickly! Hopefully I will be able to find internet access while I am abroard; I'm not sure I can remember two weeks worth of experiences when I get back to Taipei!<br />
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At the volcanic site</div>
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Bamboo forest at the top of the mountain- the mist gets so dense here in the afternoon!</div>
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Bath at the hot springs</div>
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Our indigo clothes</div>
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At Dharma Drum Mountain</div>
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My calligraphy, not too bad :)</div>
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Ceramics museum</div>
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At the National Palace Museum- we weren't allowed to take pictues inside. I was so bummed!!</div>
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With the two Texas A&M students!</div>Jenny Colvillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12198389876154698283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2647148675514709481.post-57240375328142828652012-06-24T03:33:00.000-07:002012-06-24T03:33:08.137-07:00Si xinqi (4 weeks!)My internship is sadly over; my last day was on Friday. I did my final presentation, which went really well, and to celebrate some of my labmates and I went to a place called Maokong Gondola, except the gondola was closed because of the rain! So we drove to the top of the mountain on mopeds and went to a tea house while it poured. The mountain here is very famous for its tea, and even though I'm not the biggest tea fan, it wasn't too bad! We had fun just talking, playing games, and looking at the beautiful view. Later on, the guys took me out to a type of restaurant that is undoubtedly a favorite among college students... cheap plates of food to share and beer... lots of beer. We had a really fun (and very safe!!!) time! I tried alot of strange foods that night, AND I wasn't allowed to know what many things were until I tried them... how unfortunate and frustrating for me! Especially when told to try some Dragon Balls; that one took ALOT of convincing. But I did it, and finally learned that they are squid mouths or something... not sure I will be having those again. But I have been a brave soul so far this trip; no one has any right to give me grief about not trying things! <br />
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It was a sad goodbye to my labmates and fellow zookeepers, but I hope that the BACT (Biodiversity, Agriculture, and Culture of Taiwan) program is just as fun! I had my first day of it today. We had our orientaiton this morning, and met all of the students that I will be with for the next four weeks. There are only a handful of US students here out of the 25 students total, three of which (not including myself) are westerners. A very different ratio than what I expected! About a third of the students participating are NTU students, and the international students come from China, University of Illinois, Texas A&M, UCDavis, University of Maryland, and others I think I'm forgetting! And of course Purdue. We learned a little more about what we will be doing during the course (and yes we get a grade for it too, boo!) and the places we will be traveling. Then we went to the Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial, which was an amazing place with the colorful, traditional architecture that I associate with Asia. Then we went to the National Taiwan Museum, which was a small museum with a little bit about the ecology and early history of Taiwan. I think many students traveling here were quite tired so we ended a little early. Tomorrow is the official start to the program, and I hope that I won't be too busy or exhausted to keep blogging about everything that I'm doing! I learned today that for the course I am supposed to keep some kind of daily journal while I am here; I hope I won't be too tired to keep repeating myself!<br />
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I'm really excited to meet alot of new people; I still can't believe how many more names I'm going to have to remember now! I didn't realize coming here that I would get to know so many people. It's a little overwhelming at times, but I know it will be worth it. Today did feel kind of strange since I have been here so long that it is like the first day all over again. We had to show the newcomers where everything is, how to use the MRT (subway), how to buy things, etc. I almost wish this program had been before the internship; most of these things I had to figure out on my own! I guess I just feel like the Asian expert now :) Actually I'm farrrrr from it...<br />
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The reality of what I've been doing this month; it hasn't all been play I swear!!</div>
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My favorite zookeepers!</div>
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Celebrating Taiwanese style!</div>
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Theatre at Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial</div>
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The actual memorial</div>Jenny Colvillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12198389876154698283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2647148675514709481.post-48077611375293334472012-06-18T17:13:00.001-07:002012-06-18T17:13:51.655-07:00Bìng (sick!)Only 4 more days left of the internship, part 1 of my trip! It's going very fast, yet the I still feel like I am going to be here for a long time! I've had a really great time, and this is by far the biggest learning experience I've ever had. And it's not nearly over with either. I really am not sure what the second part of my trip is going to be like, though I do have a detailed schedule of what we will be doing. It looks super busy, and each day is packed full of places to see and lectures to listen to. If I had to guess, I would say that it is going to be VERY different than the experience I have had so far. I have really enjoyed the freedom I have had during internship; I love that it feels like I live here and can do things at whatever time I want to. The second part I think I am going to feel more like a tourist with a group of about 25 international students (I think some may be Taiwanese too) which has both its positives and negatives. From looking at all the activities we are going to be doing, I will likely be dead exhausted when I come home! Thoug h I will be very busy, I hope I will still have time to keep communicating with everybody.<br />
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So far I feel that I am pretty lucky to have had good health, especially with a drastically different diet here. I have been careful on what things to try and what looks like a good idea to avoid, which is many times an easy decision! A bad choice the other day may be apart of the problem, but I unfortunately had to deal with stomach/migraine issues yesterday. Though I am feeling slightly better today, I am hoping these go away asap! Not a fun time....<br />
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Today is my last day working at the zoo *sniff*, a part of this experience that I may miss the most! Though it is a hot, sweaty job, I am quite used to those during the humid summer at home, and I will be sad to leave all the great friends I've made there. They've been super hospitable to me and have trusted me with some independence when working there. We already have tons of inside jokes and are pretty goofy most of the time. I will be so sad to leave! I really wish I could post pictures that I've taken while being there, but if you have interest in seeing some just let me know, and I can show you without publicly posting them. <br />
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I have to finish up a little presentation about what I've been doing these past four weeks. I am just talking about my duties at the zoo as well as the ELISA project I've been doing in the research lab. It turns out the leopard cat (very different from a leopard, which I didn't realize at first) that I tested for progesterone concentration was not pregnany, which would have been exciting :( So the last thing I need to do is determine the length of its etrous cycles, and then I will be pretty much done.<br />
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That's pretty much the gist of what's been going on the past couple days. Please please please email me/message me with what's been going on with you or if you have any more questions about anything! I would love to hear it. I wouldn't say I'm exactly homesick, but hearing about home definitely makes me feel better. I am pretty sure I will be ready to head to the airport when the time comes; I just want to stick all my new friends in my suitcase with me!<br />
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Love you all :)<br />
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My zoo friends and I went to a sushi place with the conveyor belt- something I've been wanting to do since I got here! Easily the best food I've had yet. We had a blast that night.</div>
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Some delicious examples</div>
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Making the sushi</div>
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Afterward, Alou, a girl from my lab who is doing research at the zoo and got me into the department I've been working in, bought me a gift at a night market- a Chinese fan with my Chinese name written on it! It's so beautiful and something I will keep to remember how much help she has been to me while being here.</div>
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I'm sorry Indiana, apparently Taiwan decided to take all your rain away from you! I've heard it's been very dry over there recently, which is certainly not the case here! The lightening last night was pretty incredible, with several bolts literally striking right outside my window. The rain poured nonstop from evening all the way through the next day. The flooding has gotten bad enough that when I got to the zoo, there was a city wide shut down, closing all the schools, universities, and goverment facilities. So we all had to leave early. I asked if this is something that is common here, seeing as typhoon season is approaching. They said no, but I think it occurs just about as much as we have snow days at home. I heard on the radio that they had to evacuate about 3,000 people out of one area of the city because of the flooding. And typhoon season starts in July... I have no idea what that's going to be like!</div>
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It's been a pretty good last couple of days, to everyone's relief I'm sure :) I got to go shopping with Christina Huang, a fellow Columbus native who is here visiting family. So nice to have something in common with someone here! I did quite a bit of exploring and am taking advantage my independence. <br />
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After a great deliberation with my zoo coworkers, I finally have a Chinese name- something I have been wanting since I arrived. From now on you can just call me Lán Yuan. Brownie points for you if you know what it means! Take a guess.<br />
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Random cultural things I've discovered in Taiwan-</div>
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<li style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">When showing the number 6 with your fingers, instead of using all the fingers of one hand and the index finger of the other, you use the thumb and pinky. 7 is the thumb and index finger.</li>
<li>I hardly ever see any colored cars here, other than yellow taxis. It's either black, white, or maybe a silver car here and there.</li>
<li>People will wear pretty much anything with English on their clothing, and it is sometimes apparent when they have no idea what their clothes are actually saying. When discussing this with my Taiwanese friends, I found that Ameicans are just as guilty when getting Chinese symbols as tattoos- getting the "prettiest" looking symbol is probably a bad idea.</li>
<li>There is never a day here when ladies do not go without their umbrella. It could rain that day, or the sun may shine that day, and unlike the American obsession with being tan leather bags, Asians have an obsession with being as transparent as a ghost. Looks like we all just want to be what we aren't...</li>
<li>People here will eat anything, and I mean ANYTHING. </li>
<li>There are very few trash cans anywhere outside or even in buildings, which is always inconvenient, yet there is hardly any litter to be seen. I guess Americans are literally trashy people, no pun intended.</li>
<li>abc= American born Chinese</li>
<li>Everyone here knows about Purdue University, and everyone here believes it's an Ivy League school. I'm ok with that.</li>
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711 next door to me. These things are like Starbucks, they're everywhere!</div>
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Memorial burial site for a past NTU president</div>
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Baby mangoes- up there on my favorite food so far!</div>
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Not sure who was going to be playing, but setting up for a live band.</div>Jenny Colvillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12198389876154698283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2647148675514709481.post-84334891634671495662012-06-08T17:29:00.000-07:002012-06-08T17:29:18.626-07:00Man re du (It's hot!)So not a whole lot to report from this past week, as I worked at the zoo for three days and was in the lab for two days. But I am having a blast getting to know people, learning natural history at the zoo, and giving English lessons (usually without meaning to, but I love doing it!). I've been doing lots of feeding turtles, cleaning turtles, taking turtles to the vet, and watching the office German Shepard get acupuncture everyday! It's a hot sweaty job, as stated in the title; the humidity here is pretty incredible (and I'm from Indiana; that's saying something) but I really like it. I wish I could show pictures that I've taken while working at the zoo, but unfortunately I'm not allowed to upload pictures of the zoo behind the scenes on the internet for security/legal reasons. But I have plenty of others to show!<br />
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I will have to perform my own ELISA experiment and create a report on it in the lab during my remaining time in the internship. So basically, wish me luck! I am hoping that it goes smoothly and that I can proove that I can do it. I have lots of good help here so it should be ok. I've seen alot of the students' different experiments and projects, and they are performing some pretty incredible research! They are all eager to show me what they have discovered, and many have been working on projects for years. Pretty cool stuff.<br />
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One day after lab, Mia and another labmate Lin went to go see Treasure Hill, a cute little area that has preserved its older buildings on a hill side and contains lots of little shops especially for artwork where you can make your paper or pictures or just look at other artwork. It was one of the quirkiest place I've ever seen. It is also a photographer's dream; the backdrops and random buildings would be perfect for someone's senior pictures or a model shoot. I'm no photographer, but if I were I would be at this place all the time! After walking around for awhile, we went to a korean restaurant and got some delicious seafood. I am hoping to try each Asian country's food while I'm here (hopefully without burning my tongue off).<br />
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Last night, many of my zoo coworkers took me to Shilin night market. If I though I went to a night marker before, I was wrong! This place was HUGE! The food, shopping, and people was like the state fair x 10, except it goes on EVERYDAY of the year almost 24 hours a day. Wow. I have to say, I believe I was pretty brave to try all the things I did. The pictures tell it all. I am sure I will be heading back to this place eventually. <br />
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Beginning of Shilin Night Market</div>
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Biggest Sausages I've ever seen</div>
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Steamed buns with meat and veggies on the inside, one of my favorite foods I've found while here</div>
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Seafood soup</div>
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Oyster omelet and REAL stinky tofu (not a fan anymore...)</div>
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Some kind of fish</div>
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More Chinese Ice- very strange food, with red beans, tora (the gray balls), sweet potato, leekies (sp?) and tofu and little black balls they like to call frog eggs, but they're supposed to be sweet. </div>
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A favorite in Taiwan- different fruits on a stick like pears, dates, or tomatoes with a candy coating. </div>
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Crawdad fishing- if you catch some, they will cook them in front of you to eat! I did not catch any. I'm not too upset about it.</div>
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Most of us!</div>Jenny Colvillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12198389876154698283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2647148675514709481.post-6690641891233415812012-06-03T17:11:00.001-07:002012-06-03T17:11:53.266-07:00Yitiao yu (fish!)I've spent a little more time in the lab now, learning about ELISA, the major procedure the lab uses to detect different steroid levels in all kinds of samples. To help me learn how it is done, my labmate helped me to analyze progesterone levels in a goat to detect its estrous cycle. Yeaaaa. After some pretty embarrassingly shakey results, I know how it's done at least. Anyway, to some more interesting stuff.<br />
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I had a pretty relaxing couple of days, including going to some more night markets and trying some unidentifiable foods that made my stomach not so happy with me. However, I do have a knew love for "wheel cake"- a small pastry filled with either red bean paste or custard. I tried the red bean one, as the flavor seems to always be an option in Taiwanese desserts. I wasn't expecting a bean taste at all, just that it was called red beans. But I was wrong- it still definitely tasted like beans. I told my friends that I didn't think it was sweet at all, and they looked at me like I was crazy! I still really liked it, but apparently I need to get over my American sweet tooth.<br />
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I also went to a Chinese movie theater to see <em>Snow White and the Huntsman</em> just to see how different their theaters are. The movie was in English, thank goodness, with Chinese subtitles. I don't think there were any movies at the theater that weren't American Hollywood movies. I now definitely appreciate my unsubtitled movies! The actual auditorium was tiny, with only a couple of rows, but there was still a big screen like what I am used to. The theater was downtown on a busy street, so there is probably limited space for seating, but I was still really shocked by it. And relative to everything else I have bought so far, the tickets were expensive, probably more than a movie costs at home!<br />
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I managed to break my shoe while walking around one night. Seeing prices of shoes while walking to lab everyday, I knew buying another pair wouldn't be that big of deal. But my average size 9 foot in the US is definitely not average in Asia! I made the poor girl at a store go back and forth from the storage room to find a size that actually fit me in a shoe I liked. I've been looking forward to shoe shopping later, but now I see it's going to be much more of a challenge than I thought!<br />
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Yesterday, Mia took Anbo and I to MOCA- Museum of Contemporary Art, that had some pretty neat music, theater, dance, and art exhibits. Later that night we met up with Kido to have what I have been looking forward to for awhile, legit sushi! Sooooo good.<br />
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Well it hasn't been that busy or as exciting the last couple of days, but that is the latest update! We'll see what my luck brings me this week. One down, seven to go!<br />
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Some of the unidentifiable foods that I tried, only because the line for it was really long. Usually however long the line is is how I decide on what is most likely the best (I feel like that's good judgement, right?). Lots, lots, lots of tofu, vegetables, and possibly some body parts that I wisely stayed away from. You pick out the foods you want in a basket, give it to a cook who boils it in front of you, adds some ramen noodles to it, and voila!</div>
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This dessert is called "ice" in Chinese. It has my name written all over it. It's shaved ice with fruit toppings, including strawberries, mango, watermelon, kiwi, or mulberries, with some type of sauce and ice cream.</div>
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Yesterday I came back to the zoo to help as a volunteer in the rescue center. Shalou, a student in my lab who is doing turtle research, took me to the zoo on the back of her moped, which was quite the experience! There are probably more mopeds, or they call motorcycles, than cars here. They also probably follow less rules as well, which makes quite an experience. At the zoo I helped with preparing diets, cleaning cages, feeding the snapping turtles baby mice (which I thought was pretty fun), but most of all getting to know the other zoo keepers. They all seemed to be around my age, which made things really fun! I mostly helped QT (when I say names, that is their English name, which is laughable sometimes), and we had alot of fun with our free time. We played with lots of tortoises, including "Big Fatty" who was their biggest tortoise. Three of me could probably fit inside its shell. But probably the highlight of my day came when she asked if I wanted to go see the tigers. That's a no brainer! There were probably about 8 tigers kept in the back. Then the keepers who were in the tiger area pointed up to a cage that was above the tigers. So QT and I went to go see it. QT has only been working at the zoo a couple of months so she was just as curious about seeing things as I was. There were orangutans up there. We got to go right up to them through their fence, hold their hands, and even gave them kisses! I was in total heaven at that point! The best part was when one of the males kept trying to poke us with sticks in his enclosure. Then we realized what he was trying to do. He would take his stick and try to lift up our shirts and procede to peer under to see what could possibly be up there! It was one of the most hilarious things I've ever seen. Of course I had to teach QT some more English vocab, including "pervert." I could have stayed with them for hours, but I am not sure we were really allowed to do everything we did. But neither of us had a camera at the time, so next time I go back to the zoo hopefully we will hopefully get some pictures with my new orange buddies.<br />
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Everything else has been going pretty well so far! Other than my chronic soreness from my supportless bed, things have been alright. I still cant imagine how great a real bed is going to feel when I get home! And a curtain on the shower... that I will appreciate as well.<br />
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Tomorrow I am very excited because I get to help one of the students who is doing research at the Taipei City Zoo! If I enjoy what we will be doing, I may be able to go there more regularly! I know we will be researching turtles, but I will learn the specifics soon enough.<br />
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Yesterday after meeting everyone and getting settled in, pizza was ordered for us. I could kind of tell the students were a little disappointed because they assumed that I wouldn't want pizza being an American, but this was NOT the pizza we are familiar with, even though it was Pizza Hut! There were several different types with various seafood; I asked what one kind was and they said "Japanese style." Well that didn't answer anything until they remembered the word "octopus!" If was actually pretty good! <br />
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It is absolutely ridiculous the amount of restaurants and food vendors there are here. Taipei is a shopper's dream, clothes and food are not only everywhere, but sooooo cheap! A decently sized dinner here cost about $1 in American dollars. But that doesn't mean that quality suffers whatsoever. I will hopefully be putting some pictures up of some examples :) here are the only ones I have remembered to take so far<br />
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Something else I will be feeling, my legs after my 35 minute walk to my lab everyday! But I am mostly just proud that I made it there today by myself without getting lost during the busiest time of the day, go me!!</div>
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The anxiety and excitement of the trip kept me from sleeping too well the night before my morning flight out of Indianapolis. The next night was the 14 hour flight over the Pacific Ocean (some quality sleep right there) and the next night was tossing and turning in my elevated yoga mat that is my dorm room bed. So I probably totaled about 4-5 hours of sleep those three days. With jet lag on top of that, it's been quite interesting what I've been able to do while still in zombie mode.<br />
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Things started out hectically from the beginning when a phone call came right as I was about to walk out the door to go to the airport saying that my plane to Minneapolis was delayed. My flight was rerouted to Chicago, but wasn't official until the boarding passes came to the ticket desk two minutes before the cut off needed to let me through security. Thank you delta for your convenience. <br />
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But it hasn't all been a miserable story. I have been so lucky to have another Purdue student who is here for the four week internship before the BACT (Biodiversity, Agriculture, and Culture of Taiwan) program begins in June. Anbo is a Chinese exchange student who studied at Purdue this past year. He has been a great translator and tour guide, even though he has never been to Taiwan either! From what I've gathered, Taipei is kind of like the New York/LA of China; everyone wants to come here! Americans who have never been to New York still know about the Statue of Liberty, the Empire State Building, etc... So Anbo knows many of the landmarks here as well. My first day, Saturday, we went to the Eslite bookstore, a famous store which is more of like a huge mall. We went to the top of Taipei 101, which was the world's tallest tower until 2010 when the Burj Khalifa was built in Dubai. We also went to the Sun yet-sen Memorial Hall, who was the founding father of Taiwan. Today we went to an area that looked alot like a Chinese Times Square. We ran into a concert with lots of screaming teenage girls, so we had to stop and watch. It was an alternative band called 831, and I thought they were pretty good! At the end they presented the band with a cake that had red colored eggs all around it, which means good luck for whatever reason. Then they passed out the eggs to the people in the audience, and I snuck one :) We also saw another pop singer who had even more screaming teenage girls at his stage. Something I thought was interesting is that most musicians in Asia are either Japanese or Taiwanese; they are rarely ever from China. We saw a very famous old theater and went to Longshan Temple, a buddhist, taoist, and matsu temple dedicated to the goddess Guanyin, the goddess of mercy. Quite an experience... I was definitely the odd one out!<br />
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Being the odd one out is the least I can say for how I feel when I go out anywhere! I have seen a couple of Westerners here in my dorm (I am living in the international dorm) but I do see a couple here and there at the metro station. I've never felt so alone in such giant masses of people! Whenever I see a white person, a black person, any other person other than asian, I find myself thinking, "Wait! Please be my best friend right now!" Haha. I am surprised that I have not seen any Indians here so far either. I do get odd looks occasionally, mostly by little kids, but people are pretty good about not making a scene of it! I've noticed so far about 3 people taking my picture, but those were ones that were not being sneaky about it whatsoever!<br />
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The English here is alright; many signs have English subtitles, and many brands are American too. But for all the English that is present here, I am quite shocked at how little people speak it. I would never be able to get around or find anything very easily if it weren't for Anbo! Another thing that surprised me is the accents of the English that I have heard. They are always American accents! I have not heard any British, Australian, or any other accent.<br />
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There are about a million other things that I could blabber about that I have done the past three days, but there's no way I can explain all the things I've seen and felt. Monday (today) I start my internship in a lab that I know nothing about yet! I am getting pretty nervous about it. I hope that my professor is nice, has clear English, has students that will help me and hang out with me, and has research that is actually interesting to me! Otherwise, this is going to be the loooongest 4 weeks of my life! Here goes nothing...<br />
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Please ask me questions anytime! There is no way I can sit here and recall everything that has happened, and I would love to talk to other people! Don't get me wrong, I have had a pretty amazing start here, but being independent on what might as well be Mars may be the hardest thing I have ever done. No one EVER for the rest of my life has any right to tell me I am chicken about anything. I baffle myself just sitting here thinking "What the heck did I come here for again?"<br />
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I will try and keep updating on what is going on! There is no easy way to summarize my experience, but I will do my best. I love you all and miss you beyond words, but I pray that this 8 weeks goes by quickly and as smoothly as possible. Email, message me about ANYTHING! I would love to hear about it!<br />
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Main Street down National Taiwan University</div>
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Sun yet-sen Memorial Hall </div>
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At the top! (Please ignore the large bags under my eyes haha)</div>
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Famous Theatre</div>
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My good luck egg!</div>
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Pop singer, who got a very "Bieber" like reaction. Can't remember his name!</div>
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Entrance to Longshan temple</div>
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