Post for Monday 070909 (Day 3) - now Monday 10.50 p.m.

Today, we had a rousing welcome by the 'Lions' of Yizai and the cheerleaders. We were all very touched. Pupils were paired off to their buddies and ushered to their classes. Everyone agreed Yizai is a wonderful and beautiful school and were happily recounting their experiences after 3p.m. The group proceeded to the Seafood Factory and witnessed the process of making those wonderful fish products / snacks. After dinner, we all went for a quick stroll at the An Ping Canal before they did their reflections. There are many details but I think this would suffice. The children are eating fine and I have read out all your messages from the tag board to your children. Over here, we teachers are very appreciative of your positive and encouraging comments. Looking after such a large group of children is not easy. We work long (but fruitful :) ) hours and it is impossible to take and post a photo of every single child every day. What we do is to capture the essence of the day and let you know what is happening. We hope today's photos will give you a summary of what the group did for the day. Please click here: Tainan Day 3.


Today, Group B will give a collective group reflection. The members in Group B are:

Xuan Ling
Xin Yi
An Qi
Gladys
Fanny
Priscilla
Wei Qin
Yu Ting
YeQing


Here is their reflection:


Yizai is very different from ours. The teachers and pupils welcome us with a Lion Dance and cheerleading performance. I think they had done a great job and put in a lot of effort to do that. We really appreciate their hard work.

At the Seafood Factory, we learnt that making fish floss is a difficult and long process and needs lots of manpower. We really appreciate their hard work just to provide us food and must treasure all our food.

Today we were all shouting and screaming like hooligans in the restaurant. It was very disgraceful. Our teachers were very disappointed with us and gave us a long lecture. We felt shameful that we actually behaved like that. We did our reflection and hope to improve on our behaviour. We had disgraced ourselves and our school and we are very sorry. We must never do that again.

Before we went back to the Hotel to do reflection, we visited the An Ping Canal - it was beautiful and I look forward to the next few days in anticipation. I felt fortunate as I was selected by the teacher for this trip. We must do our best to learn more about Taiwan.

That all for today. It is now 11.33 p.m. Tomorrow we all have to attend school. It will be another hectic day.

Mdm Fan :)