Today is our fourth day in Taipei and our second and last day at Jianguo High School! We had a different assigned buddy today and our class was split up, such that we were put in three different classes. My buddy and i were pretty awkward and we didn't talk much, and often we struck up a conversation which died down quickly... His name is Yih Jie. :) we attended two hours of mathematics lessons *cries* with a ten minute break in between. Yih Jie asked me if we'd learnt about cosine, sine and tangent in our Mathematics lessons and i told him we did, and he said that they would only learn it next year, and while we're 14, they're 16 or 17. This shows the difference in our education system!!
After the math lesson, we had lunch. The lunch was really yummy omg it was a lunchbox with a large cup of milk tea with pearls for each person :D while we ate, some of the students played around with a laptop in class, while the rest went to eat or just did nothing LOL. The students were very nice, and they cleared their tables so that we (2H people) can eat together hehe :D they helped to push the tables together so that we could have a "long dining table" for us to gather around a table together~ We all struggled with eating the huge chicken drumstick as we wanted to seem polite in front of the Jianguo students LOL.
Afterwards, we were split up into classes to learn different languages. Yih Jie was in the German class, so i tagged along with him. I've never learnt German before, so it was an enriching experience! Like Singapore, Taiwan offers third-language classes as well.
Then, we attended a music lesson in the school's music room. We were taught a Japanese song and to my surprise, the Jianguo students participated actively in the lesson and sang loudly when asked to sing together, unlike us, who just mouthed along the words.
However, i noticed something different between our school (and probably every school in SG) and Jianguo High School. I saw what the student ambassador meant by "freedom" when he inteoduced the school to us yesterday. Students slept in class, ate in class, and could walk in and out of class whenever they want to. They could be late and no one would care, and doing all these seemed normal to the students there. But when we saw them carrying out those actions, we were surprised and wondered how come the teachers didn't take action to reprimand them like we would have been if we did that in Singapore. Sometimes i wish that Singapore students would have more freedom, as we're usually almost always spending our time on schoolwork and studying, that we rarely have time to ourselves or to spend with family and friends. :(
After the music lesson, we said goodbye and exchanged souvenirs with our buddies!
Then, we headed back on the bus to Matyr's Shrine. We reached in time to catch another change of guards ceremony.
We went for dinner after that, and our last stop for the day was Eslite Bookstore.
There was a huge range of books there, but most of them were in Chinese, and there wasn't a specific directory to tell us exactly what type of books could be found there, so it was hard to search for what we wanted. Everything that wasn't cheap, and in the end, i left the store with only two packets of strawberry marshmallows LOLOL. In my opinion, Popular in Singapore is more organised and although it might have a smaller variety of items available there, i feel it is better and nicer to walk in as it is smaller and would not give the feeling of an overwhelming large space which one could get lost in.
Overall, it was a frutiful day and i'm looking forward to going to Wulai Aboriginal School tomorrow as i feel that learning about tribes would be interesting and fun, as unlike us, they might not be so modernised and i would like to learn about their way of life. :)
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