Our Class Field Trip

This past weekend we had the  Chinese Language School Autumn Session Field Trip. In Taiwan there aren't any "proms",  so these field trips are the biggest school affairs. Everyone is pysched to find out about their fellow classmates, outside of the school schedule. There were five buses, I guess there were 200 students and may be 12 teachers as "chaperone". We all met at school and then tour buses took us to a Hutoupi Scenic Area, which was a park. We had group competitions like:

1. Chinese Charades
2. Chinese scavenger hunt
3. Speaking Chinese with a mouth full of water
4. Giving instuctions in Chinese to a blind folded person, ....

I don't think we did very well but we had lots of fun.  In one scavenger hunt, our group had to collect 4 kisses by foreigners with makeup on their lips on my arm. The expression of the kissee faces as they had to kiss my arm was priceless. Usually if people don't understand what you are saying in Chinese they just agree, then at the last moment they found out what they had agreed to. Originally, I thought they had to kiss me on the lips! Accurate Chinese translation is a good skill. My expression must have been more than priceless!



Here's where we went, the gray area is Tainan City where we all live. The red flag is the Hutoupi Scenic Area.

On a really hot day we had to barbecue our own food. No shade for the wicked.

My Boy Scout training came in handy getting the charcoal working. Here is 9 members of my class:

Here is the class with 11 members of the 12 classmates, the students are:

Back row; American(recent high school graduate), Me, Thailand,Japanese, German
Front row:Thailand,Korean, Thailand, Solvenia, Russian, Indonesian





















In the picture below the class is the same but our teacher is in the back row and the head of the Chinese Foreign Language Institute is in white.

Back row: USA, German, Solvenia, Teacher, Russian, Me, Japan
Front row: Korea, Thailand, Thailand, Thailand, Head of Department

We are good group, because I'm the oldest they call me: baba. Guess what that means?

I was a little reluctant to put my fellow classmates photos online but they all were talking about how they would "facebook" their photos, so I guess I'm not out of step here, I still haven't told any of my classmates that I'm "blogging". But given the number of photos we all took, facebook will see spike in uploads from Tainan.