Brittany and I had a chance to go to Taipei Zoo in November with a group of kids from Guo Hua Junior High School in Luodong. The students are part of an advanced English class for gifted students that meets on Saturdays. In addition to the trip, I am actually teaching three classes to these students -- last week, today and next week! They are a great group of middle schoolers and getting to know them has been a blast! Last week we "studied" Christmas (they watched
How the Grinch Stole Christmas), this week we made salsa and next week we're comparing American and Taiwanese pancakes.
So back to the zoo, we had a pretty cool trip. It was a beautiful day (high 20s in November!) and the zoo is very nice. They had to write reports about endangered animals, which was the main focus, but we saw a whole bunch of different exhibits.
One of the coolest was a butterfly garden. Not only were the butterflies all over, but they could be very easily induced to landing on people by holding out a finger.
It was also beautifully landscaped with increidble flowers. The whole exhibit though smelled faintly of slightly rotten fruit, as huge chunks of pineapple were placed on posts for the butterflies to feed on.
What makes Taipei zoo really interesting, though, is the huge dedication to poop. I've never seen anything like it! Between the McDonalds and a bathroom, there was this display which included a poop climb-through statue and smaller poop statues decorated to look like other things. I found the double poop ice cream cone particularly funny!
The students found it funny that Britt and I wanted pictures in front of the poop statue. I told them it was for my mom.
New meaning to "giraffe poop!"
The students found this in one of the vending machines and were laughing and joking in Chinese. Brittany and I asked them to explain, expecting it to be some obscure Chinese humor, but they had just mislabeled the prices, saying that you could get the item "on sale" for more than the original cost. It turns out we also got that joke...
But this is my favorite picture of all. Right as we were about to leave, headed for the exit (after having bought a poop purse in the gift shop, obviously!), we came across this sign. It was hanging over a bathroom. It might be hard to see, but on the right there is definitely text that says "Gather your feces." So I don't think that's a misinterpretaton of the English, it's just a weird thing to say!
Brittany and I had a chance to go to Taipei Zoo in November with a group of kids from Guo Hua Junior High School in Luodong. The students are part of an advanced English class for gifted students that meets on Saturdays. In addition to the trip, I am actually teaching three classes to these students -- last week, today and next week! They are a great group of middle schoolers and getting to know them has been a blast! Last week we "studied" Christmas (they watched How the Grinch Stole Christmas), this week we made salsa and next week we're comparing American and Taiwanese pancakes.
So back to the zoo, we had a pretty cool trip. It was a beautiful day (high 20s in November!) and the zoo is very nice. They had to write reports about endangered animals, which was the main focus, but we saw a whole bunch of different exhibits.
One of the coolest was a butterfly garden. Not only were the butterflies all over, but they could be very easily induced to landing on people by holding out a finger.
It was also beautifully landscaped with increidble flowers. The whole exhibit though smelled faintly of slightly rotten fruit, as huge chunks of pineapple were placed on posts for the butterflies to feed on.
What makes Taipei zoo really interesting, though, is the huge dedication to poop. I've never seen anything like it! Between the McDonalds and a bathroom, there was this display which included a poop climb-through statue and smaller poop statues decorated to look like other things. I found the double poop ice cream cone particularly funny!
The students found it funny that Britt and I wanted pictures in front of the poop statue. I told them it was for my mom.
New meaning to "giraffe poop!"
The students found this in one of the vending machines and were laughing and joking in Chinese. Brittany and I asked them to explain, expecting it to be some obscure Chinese humor, but they had just mislabeled the prices, saying that you could get the item "on sale" for more than the original cost. It turns out we also got that joke...
But this is my favorite picture of all. Right as we were about to leave, headed for the exit (after having bought a poop purse in the gift shop, obviously!), we came across this sign. It was hanging over a bathroom. It might be hard to see, but on the right there is definitely text that says "Gather your feces." So I don't think that's a misinterpretaton of the English, it's just a weird thing to say!
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