Day 6: Tamkang University and Tam Sui old town

Hmmm I wonder what this building is used for...

   We went to Tamkang university for a tour and lecture. The students there were a lot more shy with their English.

They also had a gorgeous traditional garden

Their Maritime Museum was cool 

   Then we had a lecture on cross cultural communication. The teacher was really funny and awesome and we got to learn through playing games. The best was probably the telephone game. We were split into groups based on nationality (all American, all Taiwanese, and mixed) and then given sentences to pass along. Some were written in western news order others in eastern. I think the desired outcome was for unmixed groups to have the best results but that isn't what happened at all.

    We had lunch with the students. Basically they took us to their cafeteria and most of us got what they usually eat. The group I went with took us to a potsticker place. It was amazingly good (but I made a poor choice for the accompanying soup, I like fishballs sometimes but that wasn't one of those times). After lunch we had one of our group discussions in the library, we got some pretty weird looks from the students who had no idea why we were there but the discussion was good.

   Once our discussion was finished we rejoined the students and went on a tour of Tam Sui old town.

We visited a really cool temple 

A church built by the first missionary

Gorgeous building (part of a university)

There were two turtles (there's a little guy back there) and  some fish, we got irrationally excited 

We all needed pictures of the turtles