At 5:00, my body/brain system without asking me decided it is time for waking up. There was one benefit of it, because I had forgotten uploading my last videos to YouTube and so I started my PC. Then I opened komoot, the route-planner because I was curious about the first streets that I would go on the way to Pitou, and saw a 200m-hill at ~km15. This is not the biggest climb, but enough to get sweaty and so I looked for an alternative by clicking somewhere nearby the route and adding a waypoint. Now the route was 1,5km longer but 150m flatter. I make a rough calculation with 20km/h for flat and 10km/h and 5% for climbing, everything not really true, but easier to calculate. For the flat 1,5km, I would need 4:30min and for 3km climbing 18min, so I would safe 13:30min and would have an easier ride.
At 7:00, I packed my bike and when Neil left by car, I also left.
Amy now can use a bike for going to Hyvä with Lien and that means she and Neil don’t need to put the sleeping or tired girl into the car when it is time to leave for Neil, but it also means that Lien has to be awake enough for going by bike, and this means that she was sleeping when I left, so I only could say good-bye to Neil and Amy. The problem that Austria and Taiwan are far from each other works in both directions, so it is not easier for them to meet me again in Europe (even when they use flights) than for me to come again to Taiwan by whatever means. But Amy had looked up how to get to Uganda and said it seems possible for LAN to get there This is so nice that she made this research! It is only my idea, a wish and a plan in genesis stadium for 2025, so who knows what will be then, but when you live so far from each other, time and distance get another weighting.
The way to Pitou now was indeed flat (66m on 43km) and I arrived there within 2,5 hours. Apart for some 100m of a road under construction the surface was perfect, and the route sometimes ran through small lanes with little traffic and almost everything else was on streets with extra bike lanes.
And I have to say, I was happy with this separation, because I was surprised by the way some people were driving, not exactly aggressive but in a way politely (+ euphemistically + silly) normally described as sporty driving style.
At Pitou Junior Highschool, soon some teachers came to the gate
and let me to their room where I also could park my bike.
I was at least an hour earlier that the settled time, so Helen, who had been in contact with me and had organized this event had to go teaching. But also the other teachers cared for me in a welcoming way, giving me some treats to eat and helping me to connect to the school-internet (so, now I know how to find the MAC address of my PC).
Helen had brought me notes with questions of the pupils, some in Chinese. I now had time to integrate them into my PPP and was finished when pupils came to bring me to their classroom for the lunch break. They get a big box with different dishes and everyone brings an own bowl from home and takes out something. Students gave me a big bowl with very good food, and it took me some time to eat it up.
Meanwhile, Helen had introduced me to five students who would be ready to take part in my Bürgschaft-project, because I had watered down my regulation to record only couchsurfing friends (and family) whom I visited. It was interesting to see how difficult some words were for the respective student that was recording a line of the text and that the others not only could hear the difference between my pronunciation and these efforts, but also could reproduce it more easily. When it was their turn however, they had to face other difficulties. So, I could have got a perfect text-line by selecting and combining the best pronunciations of all five students, but it would be more confusing than funny to do that. Then, a group of four boys came, to rehearse the Ecosia-“advertisement”. During the presentation, they then had some tree branches to visualize it ?
two pupils had prepared an introduction 
Helen translated 
those pupils had made the “mural” on the whiteboard for me 🙂
This time, I only had 45min and additionally, Helen had to translate from time to time, so it was an extended short version and I dare to hope that I could transport the message at least partly. Now I was invited to a performing art class where pupils visualized an English word and the class had to guess what it is. First, I didn’t get the idea and thought all of them were showing a bridge, but then I learned that each of them embodied a letter of a word and it was the task to read it. After the correct guess the teacher re-formed the pupil’s pose more letter-like.
the 2nd boy shows an M
I left the class earlier, because I thought it was time for another presentation. But first I got presented something! Four boys made a traditional lion dance. This is a funny coincidence, because today I saw some temples with lions in front and wondered how they found their way to China (now in the sense of a cultural region), because the Asian lions had been living in regions around Iran to India. But with the spreading of Buddhism also the depiction of Lions came to the East.
inside the lion;
he gave me a bag with chestnuts
The Lion dance was impressing, because they boys not only had to follow a coordinated choreography, they had to train those movements to look elegant and easy, although sometimes one had to carry the other one high above him and even turn around. One lion then approached me to give me a present, a bag with chestnuts. I didn’t know that you can eat them raw when they are fresh.
But finally, it was time for my second presentation, this time with a bigger audience of 3 classes, but all in all it was a similar experience like the first one.
We had some photo shootings at the end and then Helen showed me two groups of students training for upcoming competitions, one for speed running, but I only saw some warm-up and one for weight-lifting. The group we visited was 3 boys and 4 girls and I was impressed by their skills.
Weightlifting is not only a matter of strength, you must train the correct movements to prevent injuries and you have to be very fast in that moment when you bring your body under the weight with this typical quick sidestep or step forward.
Helen and I went back to the teacher’s room and talked a bit about the school system including cram schools etc.
She is aware of all those disadvantages this brings to the students and says that there might be changes but only small and little because this system is part and manifestation of Taiwanese (Chinese?, Asian?) culture and they fear to lose something when changing this system of pressure.
But now it was time to leave, the school was about to close (and still you could see pupils at the basketball playground and other areas) and ahead of me were another 50km to Chiayi.
This part of the road was as easy as the first one, and it only was getting dark soon, but most of the time I was going through populated areas so there were street lamps .
Peggy, my Couchsurfing-host in Chiayi and I would meet at the train station at 22:00 and I had more than an hour to write my diary, but still was not finished with day 220.
On this trip, I only had two warmshower host so far and Peggy was not only the first couchsurfing host on this trip, it was the first time that I got an invitation after making a public request. We walked to her apartment and talked a bit and again we touched on the topic school, because Peggy is running a cram school were many pupils usually go after school to get better mark to enter a better University to have better opportunities to make more money to… die after all like everyone else.
Soon it was after midnight and I had to give up, after a long day.