Fun and wacky stuff at the Trainee Conference 2010

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  Hsinchu, Taiwan
Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Went to the Trainee Conference in Hsinchu last weekend and it was MEAN!! I met a lot of people from over 10 different countries (interestingly, most of them are Asian-looking but not of Asian origin). There were students from Norway, the Netherlands, Poland, Greece, America, Australia, Malaysia, Indonesia, Belgium, New Zealand, Philippines, Brazil, Columbia, Singapore, Vietnam, and of course Taiwan. But regardless of our different ethnicities we still managed to have an extremely good time and communicate :) I guess that's what makes AIESEC pretty amazing it's able to unite people from all over the world to strive towards a common cause.

During the day we had sessions on the reason why we come to Taiwan, having the correct mindset for the internship, some presentation skill workshop, and planning for your internship. Overall the sessions were quite interactive and useful - I'm extremely grateful now that my school decides to give me and Chiu Yng (the other intern) extra classes to teach as it gives us a chance to adapt to different audience (from elementary kids to adults) and do a lot of impromptus (as different classes have different attention spans so we gotta adjust to that). And at night we had the usual beer game and party (which unfortunately ended at 9.30 because we have to go back to the bible college T.T). The AIESEC culture here is quite similar to Auckland's except that they say "What's up" rather than "Say What" which I find rather strange but hey each to their own I guess. 

One really memorable thing about the conference was that we had to make our own BBQ! It's really interesting because a) they only give u charcoal, fire starter and matches; and b) by that time we were already hungry so when the fire wouldn't start you can hear people shouting "I'm hungry", "I'll eat it cold" and a lot of "ARGGHHHH". Thankfully the fire did start and our hunger was satisfied :) Also saw a traditional way of cooking sweet potato which is rather similar to hangi but they cook it above the ground - they would build a mound, burn it, then chuck the sweet potatoes inside the mound.  

Since last week we've been teaching special classes for high/poor English level students at 5-5.45 Monday-Thursday. It is both fun and frustrating because the poor English level kids hardly understand any English so communicating is very very hard (I had to resort to body language for almost the entire lesson). But on the other hand, the high English level students understand almost everything that we said - they don't even need help from the teacher!! I was so impressed ^^

That's it from me for now. Gonna go to Taipei 101, wufenpoo, Sun Yat Sen memorial hall and AIESEC Welcoming Party this Saturday yay!! And hopefully Taipei Zoo on Sunday? 

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my group presenting	lunch on 1st day   Comments!	Assistant Professor Chong-Wey Lin	at the party
party 3   Comments!	party 2	yay more party pics	lol 3 Kiwis and 1 Malaysian
partyyy	the temple where we had bbq	bbq equipment	meat for bbq
people trying to start the fire	NZ, Singapore and Aussie's bbq   Comments!	yay the meat's finally cooking!	Me and SooJin - NZ stand yay!!
Indo stall :)	traditional sweet potato bbq	us dancing with the aunties :)   Comments!	global village
Theresa an I yayy	Ben, Theresa and I   Comments!	with the girls :)	girls :)

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