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Teaching English

in Nepal Inside their classroom. Outside their classroom.

The decorated Back wall of another classroom.

Praynka - wearing

a colourful white

t-shirt painted by

her students - in a

classroom with

some of her

students in the

photo on the left.

Praynka 林家瑋, a first year student of

Cultural Creative Industries at DYU, tells us about her working holiday as a volunteer English teacher in Nepal.

I had a very special experience during my

last holiday. I went to Nepal to be a volunteer. Amongst the many things that I gained from this experience was my Nepalese name Praynka.

Almost ten days of the two weeks that I spent in Nepal was at an elementary school which was on a mountain top in Pokhara.

Before I went to Nepal, my English was not really all that good, but I nevertheless tried my best during this teaching experience, and I could detect that my English improved a lot through teaching it to children in Nepal.

However, my learning was not limited to improving my English since I also learnt a lot about life in Nepal. The Nepalese people, both adults and children, were very kind and generous to us. They even shared their food with us.

I’m glad that I had this experience, I will never forget this trip! Now, I more fully appreciate what is truly important in life.

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Walking up a mountain near the school.

On another trip up the mountain.

THE NEWSLETTER Monday, 13 January, 2014

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JACK 劉冠聖, a first year DYU

student of Molecular Biotechnology, tells us a few things about Miaoli.

This is a mountain in Miaoli. It

is called Snow mountain 雪山.

You can see many animals and plants here. Snow Mountain is one of Taiwan's five major mountains. Precious landscapes like these should be preserved. The fish here are very precious. They have even been called living fossils. Miaoli is my hometown. ________________

Miaoli

Snow Mountain, Miaoli.

These fish are “Living Fossils” and are found near

Snow Mountain.

Taipei Eric 許詠翔, a first year student of

Cultural and Creative Industries, shares with us one of his Taipei trip photos.

I recently invited a group of DYU

international students from Malaysia to my family home in Taipei. They really enjoyed exploring Taipei’s day and night life with me.

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Eric with his mum and dad entertain a group of

DYU international students from Malaysia outside their

family home in Taipei.

Terence 汪佑霖, a second

year student of Architecture and Interior Design, tells us a few things about his home county.

I am from Miaoli County.

Miaoli is perhaps best known for its beautiful mountains. Winter is a great time to visit Miaoli. You can pick strawberries. Of course you can also eat fresh strawberries or even some of the many dishes made from strawberries such as strawberry puffs. There are also many other local foods to try such as Miaoli’s meatballs. ________________ Miaoli

strawberry

patch in

photo above.

Miaoli is coloured red

in the map above.

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Brian 陳彥儒, a first year student of English at

DYU, introduces us to the English Depart-

ment’s Basketball team.

I like to play basketball. It’s my favourite sport.

The first year English major students’ class

monitor asked us if any boys wanted to join the

DYU English Department’s basketball team.

About 8 first year students joined the team

including me. We play basketball together once

or twice a week.

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Some of the first year English Department Basketball team playing in

green tops that they borrowed from third year students.

Basketball

Special education in Changhua Vivian 陳怡璇, a second year student from DYU’s Department of Industrial Engineering and Management,

tells us about her experience teaching students at a special education centre in Changhua.

Our class visited a special education centre in Changhua (聖母聖心啟智中心). This school educates students with

special educational needs. The youngest students were in kindergarten. They were so cute. We liked them very much. Soon after we arrived it was club time. A group of DYU students helped run the club. For instance, we helped them walk around the classroom. At first, we felt nervous. However, after a while, the special needs students started to communicate with us in one way or another. Most of them could not talk, so we could not easily understand what they wanted. Their teacher very patiently made a real effort and took the time to work out what they were trying to communicate. Their teacher helped us and taught us a lot. In the future, we hope to help the centre sell products in order to raise money to help their special education students. It was a really valuable experience for us all.

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DAYEH UNIVERSITY INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGE CENTRE

Room J314 Foreign Languages Building,

Dayeh University,

168 University Road, Dacun, Changhua,

51591, TAIWAN (R.O.C.)

Phone: +886-4-8511888

Fax: +886-4-8511666

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contributions from

students and staff

Submissions should be

original, include original

photographs and be

e-mailed to 馬丁老師

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(主編) of this newsletter

and ILC English teacher :

martin@mail.dyu.edu.tw

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Fam Han Yeng 范涵穎, a second year

student of Architecture and Interior Design, tells us about her favourite Malaysian food.

My friends always like to ask me

whether I prefer Taiwanese or Malaysian food. Well, my answer is that I always prefer Malaysian food. Maybe you might think that this is just because I am Malay-sian. While of course this could be one of the reasons why I prefer Malaysian food but I think it is more to do with the fact that Malaysia is a multiracial community so it has a wide variety of delicious foods.

Let me introduce you to one of my favourite foods, Char Kuey Teow. Penang Island is famous for it. My family once went for a two or three day trip to Penang. In the end, my mum and I both ate Char Kuey Teow almost every day for every meal because we had fallen in love with it!

Char Kuey Teow is made from flat noodles, stir-fried with soy sauce, bean sprouts and prawns. When you get a chance to go to Malaysia, you MUST try it. It isn’t expensive and can be found commonly in your nearest hawker centre. One year has now passed since I last went home to Malaysia so I am now craving for it.

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Malaysian food