Taiwan Day 6....

Okay, so on this day our first stop was

visiting Joy Enterprises. Joy Enterprises specializes in teaching English in Taiwan. They make products, textbooks, provide resources, traing teahers, publish magazines, and hold clinics all to help teach the Youth of Taiwan English. We actuall joined in a demonstration of their teaching methods. Believe me that tune hasn't left my head yet. I would hae to explain the tune in person, it just isn't going to convey itself over a blog. Joy is currently the largest and most successful of the english teaching companies and material sales companies in Taiwan. Furthermore, Joy offers job opportunities to those wishing to be teachers of English in Taiwan for both Native speakers and Natives of Taiwan. Also, I was greatly impressed with all the workers level of english. They could all speak better than most Americans. The lady in the picture next to me is actually one of the co-founders of the company. Also, joy has recently published several english text books for the public schools and offers several different levels of English in the local after school programs (cram schools). Also, Joy Enterprises is currently developing English programs for adults as well.

After leaving Joy Enterprises, we then went to The National Taiwan University or NTU. NTU is the best of the best for universities in Taiwan. We along with several of the students from NTU discussed the Quanta computer case. Se were all paired up with several of the NTU students. My group, was paired up with Dianna, Derek, and one other person whose name is escaping me at the moment. After discussing several questions about the case amongst our group, one of the NTU professors came in and led a group discussion amongst the two classes.

Directly after our discussion we tried our hand at Chinese Calligraphy. Needless to say, it was rather difficult. The characters themselves were extremely beautiful. Watching the presenter do it was so beautiful. Needless to say, we tried but they just didn't look the same when we were finished.

Later, after we finished doing the calligraphy, Charles, Emily, and myself went out for the evening with Derek. Derek is a really awesome guy. He showed us several of the local places to eat. We tried the rice dumplings and a local Taiwanese pork dish with rice. They were both VERY good. After we finished eating, we all went to the largest bookstore in Taiwan. The book store is five floors of books. They had every book you could think of in almost every language you can think of. It was really a sight to see. We didn't really buy any though. I don't know where I would have put them had I bought any. After visiting the book store, we went to TaiPei 101. It is the tallest building in the world currently. The building is 101 stories tall. By the way this is Derek.

Went went up to the highest point we were allowed in TaiPei 101, the 91st floor balcony. It was really a site to see. We went at night so all the lights of the city could be seen as far as the eye could see. It was really beautiful. It is a sight that you really have to see in person because pictures just do not do it justice. Also, Derek told us that on new years they shoot off fireworks from all over the building. They had a video of it, but the video I recorded didn't come out. It was really beautiful. After leaving TaiPei 101 we went back home for the night. I hope we get to see Derek again before we leave.