My Exchange Semester in Taiwan: cks Memorial hall

Sonntag, 18. Januar 2015

Weeks 17-19: New Year & Last days in Taiwan (29.12.2014 - 18.01.2015)

Went to see the new year fireworks with some friends and our location was pretty good. This was a fun evening and a good way to end 2014.

At university I had to write two finals. One was in Japanese Business and the other in Chinese (which had a writing and oral part). I am interested in seeing which grade I get for this exams. So the last weeks were not as busy as the December. But still there were many things to do. At NTU it has a check out process where I had to go to some places to get stamps and get my student card stamped. This is necessary that they send the transcript of records to me.
Furthermore I could go to get my deposit back which I had to pay at the beginning of the semester. So most of the things are done and I am ready to go traveling.

This semester was a great experience and I will leave Taiwan with many good memories. So I would definitely go for an exchange again!

In the last weeks I went to see some places so I post many pictures this time.

Fireworks at Taipei 101

Happy new year 2015 !

Crowded street

Xindian

"Hiking" in Xindian

Gongguan Riverside

CKS

National Concert Hall

Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall

Sunset

Gogguan Riverside park

Sunset

Donnerstag, 6. November 2014

Week 4 & 5: 29.9 – 12.10.2014

03.10.2014 I went to Maokong which is a suburb of Taipei and there it has some tea houses and hiking trails. To get to Maokong one can take the “Maokong Gondola” from the Taipei Zoo station.

04.10.2014 We wanted to go hiking at the Lion’s Head Mountain. To get there we had to take a train and a bus. The local train took 1.5 hours and the bus ride was another 2 hours, on the way back we took the high speed rail from Hsinchu station which took only 30 minutes to Taipei. So I think it is definitely worth to take the high speed rail over the local train.
The way was much longer than what we expected it to be and so we could not start the hike before 3 pm. Because we had to be back in Taipei at 7 pm, that left us only around two hours for hiking. But the hiking trail and the view were beautiful.

In the 5^th week there was the Taiwanese National Day on the 10^th of October. We planned to do some travelling outside of Taipei for this weekend but when we checked the flights and train tickets it turned out that everything was fully booked. We checked different places and sometimes it was even not possible to find a bed in a hostel. So we stayed in Taipei for this weekend.

On the morning of the National Day we went to see if there was something interesting going on. In some places the streets were closed and the air force did a fly-by but that was all we could see.