Alissa Hilleren

The hospitality of Taiwanese people has left me shocked. Whenever I went to a shop, a night market stand, asked someone a question or had a problem occur, people would always be so friendly and stop what they were doing to help me out and welcome me. Those are some things I’ll try to do […]

Taroko Gorge is made from a big river cutting through the granite mountains over millions of years. There are two main types of rock in Taroko Gorge. There is slate (sedimentary rock) and granite (metamorphic rock). The river will change colors based of what rock it is currently cutting through. If it is cutting through

After a fun and long bus ride we arrived at our last activity for the day, riding bikes! The place where the school was renting the bikes from had hundreds of different bikes and some even looked like cars and were electric. I picked out the first bike I saw and was eager to ride

The first picture is a picture of the street where the night market is. I took the picture at the end of the street because the moon looked really pretty in the picture with all the vendors. The second picture I took was of me eating a corn dog that I got at the night

At the high school it was super interesting. I enjoyed learning that at the end of the year they recycle all old paperwork (homework and in-class work). All the afterschool activities were interesting. I saw they had the normal track and soccer areas but then they had pole-vault which was unexpected. When I was there