December 3,2008 Day 111 in Taiwan! WOW! What a world wind I have had the last three days! It is hard to believe that it is December already and that it is currently 88 degrees, sunny and I am getting ready to head to the beach for much needed down time to relax and read! This week has been testing at both schools so our schedule is totally different. Yesterday I went on a field trip with the 4th graders to a duck farm so to speak. The kids got to see the ducks and learned how to make salty duck eggs. For those like me who had no clue how to make salty duck eggs here is what I gather from watching and trying to figure out the Taiwan language/Chinese language. You take the duck egg and put it into a mixture of red clay mud, salt and water. Then you place them in a plastic bag which is in a box and seal the box. Next you store them in a dark place for 15 days, and after 15 days you was the duck egg off and then boil them, cool them off and then eat them. Yes they taste salty because I tried them on the field trip. Next they brought out the 1000 year duck egg! No it really is not a 1000 years old but more like 100 days. Of course I had them before and they wanted to make sure I tried them again so they could witness this event. They do look gross and discussing, but they were bland and had no distinct flavor. This morning both the branch school and main school did skits on sexual harassment and abuse which surprised me since their elementary school age kids. After the skits they had an afternoon of dodge ball competition between the two schools and grades. During that time a group of 3rd graders were teaching me Chinese. I had Chinese overload, however, the kids had a blast teaching me which is the most important.
The pictures are of the duck field trip, skits, dodge ball and my Chinese lessons.
In closing I like to wish MMS MUN kids good luck and good bye(zai jan!) to a very dear friend. OH MY!!! I just watched the most beautiful sunset at the beach unfortunately I did not have my camera to take pictures. Hopefully, there will be a next time!!!!
1 comment:
Ya, those eggs do look kind of gross. And the "1000 year old" egg story kind of reminded me of this one episode of fear factor when they had to eat eggs that litterally looked like green gelitin, they were so old. Hopefully that wasnt your experience. I cant believe they had elementary school kids do skits about that subject! I am still knitting like crazy, and now I have to knit for a geometrey project! Golly! Have fun in your warm weather! :o)
-Maggie
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