Our First Day at Beitou Elementary School

Hi, everyone! Today, Group A will bring you our daily report from Taipei. Our little bloggers today comprise Alicia, Cherilyn, Yu Bing, Gabrielle, Dara, Grace, Jia Hui, Aretha, Athena and Eugina.

Today, we went to a school called 北投国小. Firstly, we went to the school's library and the pupils and teachers gave us a presentation about the school. A pupil told us about the history of the library and the school. The pupil told us that the name '北投' was from a local story where some people saw 'white smoke' coming from a mountain. They believed that witches resided in the forests on the mountain. In actual fact, the white smoke came from the hot spring on the mountain. If you want to know more about the story behind '北投', click here.

At the library, we were divided into different groups and the pupil librarians told us about the different sections in the library. Group A was split into 2 groups for the classroom experience. One group learnt about the properties of Air and the other group learnt Chinese in their class. What we find interesting is that their chinese words are written vertically from top to down and from right to left, in contrast to what we see in Singapore.

Witch's Library

Resounding welcome from the school's band

Classroom Experience Time

The Beitou Public Library, a cool place made of wood.

Taipei 101 in the background

Japanese meals today

Part of our reflection entry

We had many wonderful experiences today and we look forward to tomorrow. If you are keen to see what we do and where we have been today, do click on the link to our day 2 photo album below.

Day 2