Another trip..

Adventure is always the most important goal in my life. If a trip which was without any danger or challenging, it won’t be any meaning. We usually make some abnormal plan after the midterm or final exam. Particularly, it was the last semester I lived in Hsinchu. Going to some place in Hsinchu with these characteristics was the first choice. Last year, we went to smangus, and we decided to another mountain near smangus.

Just like the last trip, we set out in the morning and ate lunch at the last country before arriving at the destination. Fortunately, the weather in the afternoon was much better than last year. Though, there was much fog all long, it was still not big enough to affect our riding. The view in the kind of weather was best. It seemed like we were in the remote mountains. In fact, we were. Finally, we arrived at there before six o’clock. It was earlier than we had imagined. Then, we visited the elementary school and met some new friends there. It is a small tribe, everyone knows each others and the most important is that they are enthusiasm. However, there is no any entertainment in the evening. After dinner, we just played cards and read magazines we brought. At least, we prepared out dinner well. Last year, we thought that there would be a shop at smangus, so we didn’t bring enough food. We could not do any things but just hungry all night.

Hohaiyan Rock Festival and Ilan

The Hohaiyan Rock Festival we have been every day would be held this weekend, so we take a three day vacation on these days. I remember that we had been last year also, but we went home early due to we were afraid that we would miss the last train. As a result, we rent a car before this year and we would stay at Ilan.

First day, Friday, my friend set out from Hsinchu and then I meet them at Taipei. We went there by freeway No5, but we still arrived at three pm. There were not too much for us to play at the beach. When the time was up, we went to the stage fast and choose a great place to dig a big hole and lay down on the beach during all night. It was the longest time I have listened the performance ever. It was very comfortable with wind and music. We drank some beer and ate some dunk food, or on the other words, enjoyed the life. Second day, we got up at 5:30. We would go to learn how to surf. The beach was near where we had lived. The coach spent about ten minutes teaching us. Then we would take some easy practice after going to sea. How to make enough speed and good balance are the most important things when surfing. However, the waves were bigger than we have imagined and ocean current puff us toward another place. After three hours, none of us could master surfing, but all of us were very tired. Thus, we decided to go back to B&B and took a sleep again. In the afternoon, we went to Ilan and LuoDong, taking some relaxed trip such as going to department store or night market.

The Last Design

It is one of our homework of foundation design a course from department of architecture. I have interests in design since I was senior. However, I only tried some design for poster or website which didn’t have too much elements. Architecture or even industrial design includes more structure thinking and mechanic analysis. This course has been given for people who major in the others. On the other words, the department of architecture gives opportunities for us and most of students there are preparing the entrance exam for research institute of architecture.

We have to do two big projects in this course. We might spend two months finishing one of them, but we had some process each week. Teacher would guide us though each step. For example, the first homework was spells pastes which made us to see colors and structure in different point of view. And then we make some constitution in order to transform form 2D to 3D. It was a big challenge for us, because how to build a block from abstract idea is not in our normal life. Each work had their own meaning; we had to finish the step and demo in the class. Finally, we would design our own building it was the main goal of this project.