Tomo again won the 3000m race on the NTHU sports day. Hope students will join him next year.

Trip to Taipei

Moto, Justin, and Tetsuya took an excursion to Taipei.

’三重’ bus bound for Taipei is quite comfortable. Wi-Fi is available on the bus.

Our trip started with a celebration of Justin's graduation in a beef noodle restaurant.

The amazing National Palace Museum. The museum is huge and they have so many exhibits.

These are only small part of items. Chinese cabbage made by jadeite. Taking photos is basically allowed as long as we don't use flash.

Learning 'Kanji'. This is the origin of '保'.

Ancient painting. Not only painting is wonderful but also Kanji is quite beautiful. Moto sometimes reviewed scores of Kanji written by hand with respect. He has ability to judge them from B- to A+.

A photo of taking a rest. The museum has nice cafeterias! There were so many people in the museum.

What is this? It is very interesting to imagine that ancient people also needed a massage tool!

After the museum, we enjoyed delicious shaved ice! Ice on November. It is not crazy because we are in Taiwan! But, of course, we got much colder. Unfortunately they don't have mango flavor in this season.

Beer always makes our body warmer. We went to an excellent Germany style restaurant in the central area of Taipei.

'Taipei 101' is the highest building in Taiwan, which has 101 floors! It was too late to go up to 101. Taipei is a big city. We don't have enough time to see everything in a day. Finally I really thank Justin for his perfect planning of this trip.

Tomo took a 2am flight to participate the AKARI workshop in Tokyo. A busy schedule, but very fruitful, with useful discussions on Kevin and Ece's work. With the new release of ver.2 of the all sky catalog, AKARI's science is heating up. Fun never ends.