TW - 28th, Nov, 2009 Saturday (Sunny 18 ~ 25C) Hsinchu: The 12th International Day of the Disable Person

The celebration of The 12th International Day of the Disable People (國際身心障礙者日)with the Wellfare-Service Carnival and Presentation Ceremony were held on the 25th, Nov at the outdoor of the Hsinchu City Glass Museum.

The flag of the Hsinchu Enhancement on Non Disablity on Physical & Mentality Association

A dance performance

The song -Nun on the Run (修女也疯狂) performed by the Women Group of the Fire Prevention Department of Hsinchu

An energetic dance performance by the students

A flags dance performed by the girl scott of a middle school

The speech provided the Chairwoman of the Disable Foudation.

A view of the stalls including the Wellfare & Services departments which selling the handicrafts, provide the education letters, the disable trial and experience activities, etc....

Apple and Ray buy some glass pendents from a glass stall hold by a leg disable man

Welcome to the Hsinchu City Glass Museum

Welcome to Hsinchu City -Garden City of Culture and Technology

An art shows the making of the glass on the wall of the glass making room

An expert was making a decoration glass on the 1600C heat oven

Some of the end products were put near the heat container (450C) which put the glass that has just burn

The main entrance of the Hsinchu City Glass Musuem

Flower decorations given by the city counsellors wishing a great success of the activity

Other exhibitions will be held in the Hsinchu City

TW - 2nd, Nov, 2009 Monday (Windy, 13 ~ 30) Hsinchu : A letter to friends in Netherlands

Miss you all in Eindhoven. The weather in Hsinchu is getting cold with strong wind blowing outside, the coldest temperature will be 13C in the north of Taiwan during the midnight.

We were just like the "Alice in Wonderland" living in a new house in Eindhoven, exploring all the new, dreaming world of Europe in a year time, rushing and meeting new countries, places, parties, activities, cultures, people and things in an very 'efficiency' way. The teachers in RIS were just like the Mr. Rabbit, who told us that the times were very limited, we needed to prepare the snacks, lunch boxes, library books, gym bag, pizza or fruits, send and pick up the kids on time and attended the Santa Clause party, Fun Fairs, PC coffee morning, sport days, Halloween party, etc . Finally, Mooi Hong's mom-- the queen has come to join us that made our life more colourful with her delicious Asian cuisine. In a sudden, we returned to the real world after flying back to Taiwan.

Sometimes the dreams were adventurous or extremely exciting. Just like the car were drove over 190m/hr on the free highway of Germany compare to the 120m/hr limit in Taiwan, the car climbing up the continuously "Z" shape roads on the mountains like Alps and driving on the roads with snow to the ski resort, skiing on the hills or mountains at Serre Chaveliar, right handed driving in England which Taiwan is left handed driving, exploring the Fjords (Geologically, a fjord is a long, narrow inlet with steep sides, created in a valley carved by glacial activity. Source by the Wikipedia) of Norway by cruises which met the rain shower and rainbow, discovering the rear-view mirror of a car that parked in front of us has been ruined while we parked at the road side near the hotel we reserved in Praha, visiting Venice by waterbus (or called vaporetti and motoscafi) at night and walk over many bridges and old houses to find the 13th century hotel that has no desk service after 9:00pm, climbing up the hills in the mountains near the Mediterranean Sea to find the Polrini fungi in Italy, etc. Woops....!( Take a deep breath)

Actually, we were more lucky than Alice, because we have friends like you that could encourage us, share the experience while we were lost, and help us to prepare the parties for all of us to get together and know each other better. The children have a lot of fun. Without you, the life in Eindhoven will be faded and dull.

'走過必留下痕跡' Every steps we took, will print on the mug and stain on the time river. We will always smile in our dreams. Soon, one day, we will meet again either in Eindhoven, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore, Japan, China or any countries in Europe or Asia, etc as this is a small world. Hope you and your family will enjoy the trips in Europe too.

Happy and healthy always,
Joanna, YL, Apple & Ray