Not the end

July 21

As I have already decided to stay in Taiwan for five more days, so that I’m not leaving as the majority. In fact, I have a purpose that I must stay behind after the BACT program. I went to central of Taiwan again, to explore something that I’m going for. Some friends already what I’m going to do, hahaha!!!

No worries, I would be fine ;)!!!

This is not the end of the BACT journey, just do your best and keep going. See you guys soon!

Project presentation and last day

July 20
It’s the day for the BACT students to show what we learnt and what we found from the project. Although it was only a short period of meeting classmates and project progress, I felt I have meet a group of good friends from all around. The memories just came when I wake up in today…

No matter what, my duty is to cooperate with my group mates: Hulda, Hao, Baker.
As we’re the last group to present, we listened others group ideas. They all did a great job in the project. They clearly demonstrated their thoughts by doing survey and experiments, with convincing hypothesis.

Our group has different approach. We aimed at finding new method or protocol to facilitate the biological research. We focused on the software visualization of the vegetation in a area.

Project presentation…
Personally, I think our presentation is smooth and clear. Because we do pay as much effort as we can. Hope our project is feasible to apply widely in research aspects.

After the sharing and comments of the professors, we went to a Italian restaurant for the farewell banquet. I don’t know how to describe. It’s just time and memories. We’re just crazy, always photo-taking, and eating…

After the dinner, I received a call from my Taiwanese friend. That’s mean I have to pack my luggage and leave NTU after the call. I didn’t tell others I’m leaving. Fortunately, I met BACTers at the MRT station and took a last group photo. What a nice trip and friends, it’s the most fruitful trip I have ever went!!!

The day before...

July 19 

Today, we visited the Taipei City Zoo. We arrived early, so we hand around and have fun at the entrance. The decoration of the entrance is full of monkeys, so…

During waiting, I saw a white butterfly on a leaf. It’s entire white in both body and wings with damaged wings. But I still wonder it’s the mutant type of butterfly or moth.

Inside the zoo, we went to the research areas where normal tourists cannot go, where we were not allowed to take any pictures. At first, it’s a house to keep endangered species of reptiles. It’s full of snakes, chameleon and turtises. Then we went to outdoor areas for the larger animals. And we saw tiger, which may pee on us if we stay too long there =_,=

I didn’t stay in the zoo after the guided tour in the park. Because I went to meet my Taiwanese friends ;P

Rice Rice Rice

July 18
Due to the late sleep last night, I failed to response to the alarm clock. In other words, I’m late to the rice farming practice. When I arrived, the classmates have already done some rows T_T”””

It’s just...a long way to go…especially when you saw you are lacking behind XD
Although we all know that this farming practice is now taken over by mechanization. But this is a memorable experience for treasuring the food we can get. Because we experienced how tired and difficult to farm the rice in the farm land. It made me think more about the story behind the food indirectly when we buy it in the market.

In the afternoon, we tasted different types of rice and rice products as lunch. Most of them are very delicious!

After that, it is project time again. We have to organized our project run down in to a presentation. I enjoy the time working with my group mates, hahaha!

Back to Taipei !!!

July 17

After the project, everyone was exhausted. But we still have to go somewhere before we back to Taipei. There were three more places more to go, the Earthquake Museum of Taiwan, Agriculture Research Institute and Soil Museum.

Earthquake will not happen in Hong Kong, because we’re not in between the tectorial plates. But it’s not uncommon in Taiwan. On average, there are about 2000 recorded earthquakes in Taiwan each year. But most of them were not powerful to cause damage. The Earthquake Museum of Taiwan is originally is a earthquake-damaged secondary school, and now is modified as a museum. In here, I can feel the power of the level 8 earthquakes. That’s mean we must prepared any disaster and know what to do when it comes. If not, we may not protect ourselves and even others.

Then, we went to Agriculture Research Institute and Soil Museum. It demonstrated the advance green houses, which can trace when and who was get into the place. The isolation of farm lands were also well developed to prevent the spread of modified crops.

It is always good to travel and know more about Taiwan. But just…I’m tired and miss the night market in Taipei!!!

Eat ‘eat’ all !!!

Second day of the project

July 16
For every project, it’s all about division of labor. After quick breakfast, we continue go into the forest and start our work. Since the materials were limited, we only have the nylon strings for the grid placing. It took a complicated procedure for us to fix the strings in a straight way. Just we use the stands and stones to fix them.

After the grid placing, we start to survey the location and the abundance of plants in the area. And here is our draft work, different logo represents different types of the plants. The location is also noted in the paper with calculated scale. We completed this progress before lunch.

That’s means we finished the site work before lunch !!!

After the field work, here is our paper work…
It’s very strange there were no fine table in the dorm room…

So, we do our work on the bed…………

Finally, finished =]!!!

Project started

July 15
I’m very tired so that I haven’t wake up early for the breakfast. I skipped the breakfast and consume a cup noodles as my first meal today. After that, we went out for the outdoor lecture of environmental engineering.

Basically, the purpose of environmental engineering is to compromise the city development with the nature environment. Most of the stuff in Taiwan is quite well designed in eco-friendly manner. In the experimental forest, there was a comb dam. This is a kind of novel design to protect the lower stream areas by preventing the large rocks to reach there.

In the afternoon, it is the time for us to start of our project. However, due to the typhoon, we only have two days for the field site work of the project. That means we have to be efficient during the progress. And also, if we failed to complete the project, there was nothing can be used to compensate. Just go for it, bump into the rain and do it all !!!

In progress

Since the rain is heavy, we decided to continue the grid and counting tomorrow.