สหรัฐ ลักษณะสุต (Saharat Laksanasut) : นักวิจัยอิสระ : Researcher

星期一好大家！(Hello Monday). Today (August 5, 2019) is the last day of all participants to for staying here at NPTU. This morning we were provided an opportunity to participate in the Art Therapy for Relieving Stress. We went to another campus of NPTU (walk from our campus around 15 minutes) for attending the activity. In the activity, there is a special guest from the Taiwan art therapist institution. During the activity, we were asked to draw some lines with different colors on the given blank paper. The therapist said that any kind of lines and the colors we used can represents our feeling and emotion at that time. Participating in the activity. my stress was relieved In the afternoon, we attended the final class of the camp named Re-call Taiwan. The class allowed all participants to learn and know more about Taiwan culture, tradition, places, foods, lifestyle, and etc. At the end of the class, I had an opportunity to be an SSRU representative to deliver a speech...

星期天好大家！(Hello Sunday). Today (August 4, 2019), I and my roommates woke up so early (around 7.00 AM). Today all participants were provided an opportunity to travel anywhere or do anything independently for seeing and learning Taiwan culture. At 8.00 AM in the morning, we got on the MRT (subway and sky train) heading to the Dragon and Tiger Tower. The tower represents the way to heaven according to Chinese people. There are 2 gates to walk by as follows Dragon gate and Tiger gate. We spent around 1 hour there and then, in the afternoon, we went back to MRT for heading to the IKEA shopping mall. At the shopping mall, we were provided an opportunity to walk around and find things to buy as a souvenir. Today was a very wonderful day because we had seen many new and different things from Thailand, for example, the building, culture, lifestyle, and etc. We had learned Taiwan culture a lot from this free-day activity the camp provided us.

星期六好大家！(Hello Saturday). Today (August 3, 2019), I and my roommates work up around 7.30 AM. After that, we went downstairs to get on the bus heading to Tainan. Today we have been provided a cultural experience with DIY indigenous arts. We had taken about 2 hours to touched the Tainan Cultural Center. After our arrival, we got a very warmed welcome from the locals. The first activity that we were provided is a DIY Bamboo Basket Workshop. At first, we thought that making a bamboo basket is so difficult that we may not be able to make it, but our thought was wrong. The DIY bamboo basket is so easy to make, let's see my hand-made basket.  In the afternoon, we had another interesting activity as well. It is a DIY Lucky Bracelet workshop. We had an opportunity to make our own DIY lucky bracelet. Each color, pattern, and the number of beads we used has a different meaning. We took around 4 hours to finish our bracelet, and then got on the bus and returned to the...

星期五好大家！(Hello Friday). Today (August 2, 2019), I and my mates woke up around 8.00 AM. Today we have 2 special activities to sit-in as follow; An Accompanying Dogs Workshop and Audience Drama Workshop. At the morning we headed to the NPTU's special education program for learning about an Animal-Assisted Therapy (AAT). During the AAT workshop, I had been provided an opportunity to be a Thai representative for sharing our special education program to other representatives from all over Asia. We have learned various special education programs from different contexts, and we will bring them into the group discussion when we're back to Thailand. In the afternoon, we went to the NPTU' Filming Studio for attending the Audience Drama Workshop. In the workshop, we have been provided an opportunity to learn and try being a drama actor. The professor arranging the workshop taught some basic body languages and attention-grabbing technique. The workshop went s...

星期三好大家！(Hello Thursday). Today (August 1, 2019), I and my roommates work up so early (6.30 AM). Today morning we are going to take a bus heading to Chimei Museum where many sculptures, musical instruments, pictures, to name but a few, were gathered for telling the history of Taiwan.  This morning all participants had to have breakfast on the bus due to the long distance of the museum so we have not much time to have it at the university. We had taken around 50 minutes to arrive at the museum. We have been provided for 2 hours to walk around. Unfortunately, taking pictures in the museum is prohibited so we have no picture inside the museum to share here. However, we have taken lots of pictures outside the museum, let see! In the afternoon, we got on the bus again heading to the Saba-fish Exhibition Center & Yuguang Island. We took around 1 hour to reach the exhibition center. We have been provided a special opportunity to see many products made of sab...