Flavor of local life-Taichung County
As you all know, I do not like tourism [viva la 'Usi gore Winnetou', anti-turistica Istriana!], so when my friend from Taichung asked if I'd spend sunday morning with her in the 'party' which her hospital organised , I accepted with joy. The best chance to see how they do such things here-it was about collecting money for the people who can not pay medical care, as I understood. Hospital staff wass selling food, beverages and different small things which you can usually meet in such places. Behind me in that pic (please, no comments that my eyes got chinese-like, it was because of sun :-) !) you can see the usual setup for such events.
It was a hot day, but enthusiasm was high. Kids also had their part.
Somebody was complaining that I am not giving people on the pics I post. So I'll correct it a bit now. Little cutie here seemed to be uneasy about strange white man taking her pic.
Not too strange as I was the only Western man there... Kids are cute everywhere.
Behind the kid you see nurses from the hospital, 'uniform' of the fest was white T-shirt with some hospital inscription...I had my 'Komarep' T-shirt which matched the spirit of the day :-).
Some had other animals, my host had dinosaurs :-)
These girls were waiting for their turn on the stage
But now I should stop with the kids not to join Jackson in front of the jury ... as we know it is dangerous these days to make even the pics of your own kids.
After the duty-fest (people were very kind to me; nurses are cuties, mmmm!) we went to enjoy Taichung County (thanks Meiyunn for the correction, it is not the Taichung city itself, but one of the towns in the outskirts or Taichung) on our own, sharing the portions of every food Janice thought I could manage to eat :-).Well, almost everything I managed at least to try.
It was beautiful day, we went to the campus of the old Tunghai (東大) university, which is a nice park
Janice said it is quite crowdy around the church for the Christmas party, and this church is a landmark in the Campus.
I was delighted to see old classic pavilions, obviously from the "fan era" of education here (i.e. before air-condition), classrooms around the courtyard, as in the colonial era movies.
After the campus, we went to the town. Sunday afternoon, crowdy streets, but pleasant crowd, mostly 'on hunt' for some delicacy, and choice was really rich.
This street was uphill, I would not like to drive car in that crowd.
Flavor of 'architecture':
This one I named 'cardak', for 'turkish' speakers :-).
Here is view of the Taichung city from the hill. It is different than Hsinchu, more pleasant, as streets are wider and there is more place. It is built more recently, during the Japanese rule, 1895-1945 (usually it means much better infrastructure than in the old Chinese towns).
Greetings from the passage over the street:
ps. about health care and retirement system here. Hestia, Alliance and similar will just start to take their share here, until this year there was no ANY retirement insurance. It is in fact part of the culture here, people take care that their kids would be well educated as then when they are old, kids are able to take care of them. It matches also the Chinese family ties, which are much stronger than in present West. But also constraining, I must say, and often I found it frustrating for the young people. They expect to have the style of life similar to what they see in TV (they really LEARN from TV, for them it is not redundant as we are used to think about it, my dear friends), and model for that is not Chinese, but Murdoch-like. Hair up, yes, but that's St. Reality. So, just about now government enforces some retirement system, as there is more and more cases that people do not have anyone to take care for them when they are old (action in the hospital was mostly for older patients). But I am sure here'll be lots of perturbations still about it. I wish them luck.
It was a hot day, but enthusiasm was high. Kids also had their part.
Somebody was complaining that I am not giving people on the pics I post. So I'll correct it a bit now. Little cutie here seemed to be uneasy about strange white man taking her pic.
Not too strange as I was the only Western man there... Kids are cute everywhere.
Behind the kid you see nurses from the hospital, 'uniform' of the fest was white T-shirt with some hospital inscription...I had my 'Komarep' T-shirt which matched the spirit of the day :-).
Some had other animals, my host had dinosaurs :-)
These girls were waiting for their turn on the stage
But now I should stop with the kids not to join Jackson in front of the jury ... as we know it is dangerous these days to make even the pics of your own kids.
After the duty-fest (people were very kind to me; nurses are cuties, mmmm!) we went to enjoy Taichung County (thanks Meiyunn for the correction, it is not the Taichung city itself, but one of the towns in the outskirts or Taichung) on our own, sharing the portions of every food Janice thought I could manage to eat :-).Well, almost everything I managed at least to try.
It was beautiful day, we went to the campus of the old Tunghai (東大) university, which is a nice park
Janice said it is quite crowdy around the church for the Christmas party, and this church is a landmark in the Campus.
I was delighted to see old classic pavilions, obviously from the "fan era" of education here (i.e. before air-condition), classrooms around the courtyard, as in the colonial era movies.
After the campus, we went to the town. Sunday afternoon, crowdy streets, but pleasant crowd, mostly 'on hunt' for some delicacy, and choice was really rich.
This street was uphill, I would not like to drive car in that crowd.
Flavor of 'architecture':
This one I named 'cardak', for 'turkish' speakers :-).
Here is view of the Taichung city from the hill. It is different than Hsinchu, more pleasant, as streets are wider and there is more place. It is built more recently, during the Japanese rule, 1895-1945 (usually it means much better infrastructure than in the old Chinese towns).
Greetings from the passage over the street:
ps. about health care and retirement system here. Hestia, Alliance and similar will just start to take their share here, until this year there was no ANY retirement insurance. It is in fact part of the culture here, people take care that their kids would be well educated as then when they are old, kids are able to take care of them. It matches also the Chinese family ties, which are much stronger than in present West. But also constraining, I must say, and often I found it frustrating for the young people. They expect to have the style of life similar to what they see in TV (they really LEARN from TV, for them it is not redundant as we are used to think about it, my dear friends), and model for that is not Chinese, but Murdoch-like. Hair up, yes, but that's St. Reality. So, just about now government enforces some retirement system, as there is more and more cases that people do not have anyone to take care for them when they are old (action in the hospital was mostly for older patients). But I am sure here'll be lots of perturbations still about it. I wish them luck.
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