The last activity of our 5th anniversary-Movie Night was successfully ended. Last semester, Chalmers Office in NCTU played some really nice Swedish movie for us. I thought that it was an easy and interesting way to know the culture of a country by its movies. To give students in Chalmers the same opportunity to learn more about Taiwan, we played a popular Taiwanese movie “The Secret” to all the participants.
Introduction of Mid-Autumn Festival
While waiting moon cakes to be ready, We started to introduce the Mid-Autumn Festival. At first, we talked about the origin and the meaning of celebrating Mid-Autumn Festival. It is the date for farmers to celebrate summer harvest and also for family members and friends’ union.
Sep. 15th was our office’s anniversary which took place at our office, especially, this was the fifth anniversary of NCTU Europe.Therefore, we decided to make it more special than the before. In our guest list, there are Professor Shang H. Hsu, the dean of the Office of International Affairs in NCTU and Miss Hung, the officer from Ministry of education. Moreover, Dr. Johan Carlsten, the Vice President of Chalmers and Dr. Jogen Sjoberg, the Senior Advisor to the President represented Chalmers to celebrate this special moment with us. Furthermore, the activities of anniversary gathered around more than 40 Chalmers students to join us.
Due to the cooperation between NCTU and Chalmers, Mr. Hsu, Dean of International Affairs of NCTU paid a visit to Chalmers to discuss the bilateral student exchange agreement in the future. Also, he made a plan to have dinner with us at a restaurant, which is called Smaka. Actually, what the restaurant offers is many kinds of traditional Swedish food, and some of my Swedish friends recommend it very much.
Introduction:
This was the day just before Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival and we, NCTU Europe Office, visited the Chinese Culture Association in Sweden. This association was found by many ladies from Taiwan who were married to Sweden. Mid-Autumn Festival is also called Moon Festival, and this is the day which Chinese families all get together to appreciate the prettiest full moon during the whole year. The full moon symbolized reunion and satisfactory in our culture. This time we were far from our home and families as exchanged students. Since we miss our familily so much, and it is not easy to meet Taiwanese here in Sweden, we are very glad to celebrate the very important traditional festival with these “ Taiwanese Moms” in Sweden.
