The meals in Shueili were very nice. They provided western dishes. That was nice because I like western breakfast.
After breakfast, we started to make DIY tissue boxes. The first step is polishing wooden materials. We need to polish every side of chips. That made me feel very tired. After polishing, we need to put chips together with glue. I did not use glue cause I would like to separate the tissue box later. Besides, I think the original color of wood is beautiful, so paint is not necessary. When others were coating, I was moving around to watch the plants there. Another reason for me to move is that there were too many mosquitoes. Mosquitoes always make me crazy. Kim said that I have the most sweet blood. Dr. Zhuang taught me another way to coat the tissue box. I used vaseline to coat my tissue box.
We were making tissue boxes.
We were polishing.
My tissue box. It looks nice without paint. The original color of wood is beautiful.
After everyone finish the tissue box, we visited the wood factory. That is a small factory. I have visited a Canadian forestry factory. That is quite different from the one in Shueili. Basically, The forestry factory in Canada use machines to do most work.
Cutting machine.
The machine was cutting trees.
The staff was polishing the knife.
We visited the Shueili Wood Utilization Center. I love the works made of moso bamboo. The designer joined bamboo together. The trace of join looks like unique design. That is really beautiful.
A book shelf made of moso bamboo
Dr. Zhuang was introducing the works in Shueili Wood Utilization Center.
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We spent almost the whole day in Endemic Specimen Research Institute. We had a lecture about the specimen there. I love the guide trip to Wildlife and Rescue Center. There is a cute owl in the office. The researchers are doing research on it. Usually owl sleep in the daytime, but the owl did not sleep when we were there. The guide said that there were too many people in front of it, it felt nervous and would not fall sleep. We also visited some other disabled wildlife there.
The cute owl
It is a blind eagle adopt by Wildlife and Rescue Center.
I like the lecture about bats in Taiwan. Dr. Zheng introduced many endemic bat species in Taiwan. The diversity in Taiwan is quite high. I love bats, and I kept a bat as pet when I was very young. That was exciting, as it was a really unique pet.
We visited Mingxin Academy in that afternoon. Academy in Mainland China is for reading, which is different from the academy in Taiwan. To my surprise, there is a temple in Mingxin Academy. That is quite new to me, as we do not put temple together with academy. Temple and academy in Mainland China are different.
Mingxin Academy
We lived in Phoenix Tea Garden that night. The night in Phoenix Tea Garden is very beautiful.
The view in front of our room.
In order to get to Xitou early, the lecture about tea was brought forward to that night. Most of the lecture is about the history of Taiwan tea. I am more interested in how to make tea. We tried five tea, including oolong tea, oriental beauty, dongding oolong tea and two types of black tea. They are all nice, but too much tea made it hard for me to fall sleep.
Oolong tea
Oolong tea
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