Day 7 in Taipei

Day 7 was a fun and meaningful day, and my roommates and I were the leaders for the day. Honestly speaking, I don't really think I'm a good leader. I'm more of a follower, but nevertheless, it was a good day. :) 

Breakfast was soy milk with tuna sandwich. Surprisingly mine was really nice :) 

After which, we moved to school and had a talk by Dr Hsieh Chih-Mou. He shared many small stories of others helping others, and many of which, he was involved in it too. I can feel the passion from his heart, and I would say he serve wholeheartedly. 

Some of the things I've picked up from the talk: 

"You are more than what you think."

"If you make an effort to care, there's something you can do." 

"You're never too young to act." 

"If our love cannot cross islands, how small is our love." 

"Honour people's life, don't look down on them."

(and most importantly) 

"We have thousands of things to smile, but we only look at one thing to cry." 

Let me share some of the stories/things he shared.

Firstly, he met this Nepal girl when he was servicing at Nepal and she was really confident. Even though she didn't have much, she is still really confident about herself. The speaker showed us a picture that he took for the girl and it happened to be the second photo that she ever took, but the posture was confident. And when the professor praised that she was pretty, she replied "yes I am". In this 21th century, it feels like people are judging everyone according to their academic achievement. The smarter ones always seems more confident that those who lag behind. There are always something more than just studies. 

Another story was that they bought a cake for a homeless grandma as it was her birthday. After they blew the candle, the professor was thinking of cutting the cake into 4 slices as there were 4 people there. The grandma then cut it into 10 pieces and pass 9 of it to other homeless people around her. A homeless lady can think of other homeless people, then fortunate people like me should help others as well. 

There was a 6 years old girl who cycled 2100km at the silk road and she published a book. Even though she went with her father, but it's still commendable. How many of us can actually cycle so much? A 6 years old can do it, then what am I doing? 

A last example which inspired me the most was the baby who smile after he was rescued from the earthquake even though he had other reasons to cry. 

"there's a hundred reasons to be happy but we only look at one reason to be sad"

I think this is quite applicable to me myself actually.

There were some other examples of people having vision, I might share again later or so. 

The school has this London feeling and it was quite cool. 

After which, we went to the street nearby to get some food so I got chicken chop and bubble tea! :) 

Then, we went to another school to try baseball since it's a sport that we hardly get to experience in Singapore. 

They prepared watermelon juice for us cause it's one of their famous drinks in Taiwan. 

I was quite thankful to the guy who taught me cause he was really patient even though I probably did some wrong things. Baseball was not really an easy sport. My muscle is aching now. 

They brought us some pastry as a gift which was quite thoughtfulness of them :)

At night, we went to watch a baseball match. This was a surprise thing prepared by the teachers and Woah it was good. I really like the atmosphere there but I couldn't really understand the sports so oh well. Thankfully yan explained to me but I still don't really get it. 

They have cheerleaders and this is one of them :) managed to take a photo with her :) I think she said something like I was the first girl who take photo with her. 

so that's about it for the day :) it was a good first baseball experience.