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Monday, December 13, 2010 @ 11:59 PM
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Taiwan - Day Two
Today we woke up early to take a bus down to Tainan for the music exchange with National Nanke Int’l Experimental High School. After an arduous and torturous 4-hour bus ride (where everyone slept), we first visited the ZhengChengGong & WunChang Place, after which we had Hakka food for lunch. The food was healthy but neutralized by the KouRouBao aka Fatty Pork Bun. We learnt that the food is good for our blood circulation, eye vision, aids digestive system and improves metabolism rate.
After lunch, we took a bus ride to the school and prepared for our music exchange. We were happy and pleasantly surprised when the students gave us a cordial welcome. We went up stage to have a quick sound check before the start of the actual performance.
Performance-wise, we felt that many of us could have done better. And due to unexpected circumstances, we had little time to spend interacting with the students. Somehow, we were dismayed by the fact that we couldn’t do much with the students.
Still, amid the gloom and doom, Ms Lim reminded us to count our blessings in this trip, by the fact that this is the FIRST time the JJ band could travel overseas for a real public performance, by the fact that the hosting school accepted our sudden request for an exchange, by the fact that we even managed to travel to not just any ASEAN country but Taiwan. And while our exchange with the students was extremely short-lived to the point that we could only exchange our e-mails for Facebooking, Ms Lim wants us to remember that we have to be thankful that we been given this opportunity, to look at the perfection in our imperfections.
Mr Ong further augmented Ms Lim’s reminder by teaching us three words:
1) Intrinsic Motivation – ‘Motivated for the sake of being motivated’; we practise our instruments because we must (seniors recall : We Should, We Must, We Can, We Will).
2) Altruism – Doing good without expecting anything in return.
We were also reminded of the bonds we have forged since we set foot in Taiwan, bonds we forged playing games we could have played in Singapore, but in a sense needed to come to Taiwan to forge them, and thus this trip has been a rewarding one.
Bidding farewell to the students there, we headed for Tainan Wei-Yet Toong Mao Grand Hotel to have our dinner and stay for the night. We had funky fish, salty soup, diluted tea, many mian, glutinous rice and sotong balls, though the best of the dishes was The Coffin Board.
That’s all for today!
Thank you Mr Ong, Ms Lim, Mr Er and Ms Loy for this fantastically fun-filled field trip!
Goodnight to everyone and we look forward to tomorrow for another one the fool day~
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