At 7:00 Cheryl from Nantou Senior High School fetched me, and we went to Nantou. Before I would have my first presentation, she showed me the teachers room, where also pupils come in when they need something and then brought me to her class.
The pupils rehearsed a song for the “English song competition”. At first, they only had a mobile phone lying in front of them and were singing along with the performer of the song. I should give them feedback and advice and first of all thought it would be necessary for them to hear the song better, because they were out of tune. So, we only could take the microphone to the mobile phone to make it a bit louder.
We had not enough time to rehearse together, because I had to go to another room for preparing the PC and open the links to sites, I wanted to show the pupils etc.
This time, I had a better feeling about contact to and attention of these 37 students. There are some possible reasons for that – they were older. There English skills were more advanced and maybe my attitude and way of talking to them was more appropriate. Additionally, I had changed the start of the presentation to a more dramatic one intro about activism.
So, the presentation was longer but didn’t take longer. Only because of the many photos that had to be taken, there was a delay of time and that was a problem for the second presentation, because I had no time to prepare, it was additionally confusing that we started with a big photo session when I wanted to prepare but I had to sit among the pupils and that the PC was different to what I am used to (not only because of Chinese writings!), because it was designed for presentations and for me it was hard to switch from my PPP to internet and back. But even though the audience was big (106 students and several teachers) and although the start was not ideal, I again felt in contact and got the impression that most of them concentrated on my remarks.
But for me the most touching moment was after the presentation (and the photo shooting) when one student who also had helped me with the equipment wanted to ask some questions that he had even prepared the day before. He had written them down on his phone and we talked for a while.
After those two “performances” I was relieved and suddenly felt very tired.
Cheryl and a colleague showed me a multimedia room where they can make video conferences with people around the world and their students can present something or learn something. They hope to be connected to me or my school in future, too.
Then I was invited to have lunch. The teachers extra for me had bought a Vegetarian lunch box and I liked the food.
the headmaster and a colleague present their new installed Ecosia…. 
but the tree-counter doesn’t match
Now there was some time to wait for the headmaster of the school who would bring me back to Taichung after attending a meeting. So, I had some time to continue my blog entry for the last day. In the car, the headmaster and I talked a bit, partly with voice translation, but when the conversation paused, I immediately fell asleep and only sometimes could wake myself up to continue talking.
At home, Neil was waiting for me and we made a short bicycle ride to Rainbow village.
The story behind these few colourful houses (a shortened abstract from Wikipedia):
“The Rainbow Village was created by Huang Yung-Fu *1924). He began painting houses in his settlement to save them from demolition. Over the years his colourful artwork has spread over the remaining houses in the village, which once contained 1,200 homes. Residents were offered compensation or new housing to move but Huang remained even after his neighbours had left and only 11 homes remained. Local university students campaigned to save the village. Authorities eventually agreed that it should be preserved.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_Village
In the evening LAN and I went to a Vegetarian Restaurant run by or associated to the Fo Guang Shan monastic order. I have to read more about that before I can say anything, but apart from that what Amy told me it was strange enough to see how rich and big and fancy this restaurant was. But for the moment I can say that the food was good.
another blurred selfie…
We went home and tried to get to bed early to catch some sleep for an early (6:30) start on Sunday for a bicycle tour.