In Taiwan, studying is not necessarily to only route to success. If you can specialize in an area, you can still go very far, and even be more successful than a graduate! Sadly, this does not apply to Singapore... If you aren't doing well in your studies, you will immediately get casted to a lousier class and will have to face discriminating stares all the time. This really lead me to be in a dilemma. Why can't we just adopt the simple mindset of Taiwanese and treat every individual equally?
Everyone has their own unique quality and ought to be given a second chance. We should not despise someone based on our own selfish perspective.
After visiting Anping, I also learnt that Tainan used to be ruled be Holland. Their ulterior motive was to make use of Tainan's resources such as 樟树 to gain profits. This brings me to a whole new level of understanding of Tainan, more in depth, more relatable. The most respected person in Taiwan is 郑成功 because he was the one who freed his country from Holland's rule. There are statues of him around the country, and people really look up to him. We also went to the Confucius Temple, where most of us just wandered and fooled around because we were given the courtesy of 'freedom'. It was delightful day of touring and I really anticipate for the next day, when we would go to Sacred Hearts High School!!
Picture with one of the drummers after we watched the performance put up by the Tendrum village teehee
Statue of 郑成功
Unique soda that contains a marble at the bottom. It actually used to be sold in Singapore but later diminished from the market as it wasn't popular. I wonder why...
Typical monkeys at the Confucius temple hohoho
We are so holyyyy
The long awaited dinner!!!!~
Xiaolongbao! 
Our new hotel that we transferred to.... And I got the smallest room. Not pleased at all.Joy Tan (17)
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