Hualien City, Hualien (1)

Final exams is coming and summer vacation is around the corner. Therefore, I would like to share what I did in last summer vacation. I had working holiday in FH Hostel (繁華青旅). It is my first time to live in a hostel and work as a helper. During the 13 days in FH Hostel, I experienced a great number of things: traveling along, riding a bike in curtains of rain from Shoufeng to Hualien, taking a trip with foreign friends I just made to Toroko, drinking bears and talking about dreams with the guests, etc. More or less, the experience influences me, and I am still grateful to FH Hostel for admit me to be a helper there.

Located in Hualien City, FH Hostel is just near Hualien Train Station. Today I would like to introduce the famous cafe around the hostel.

Frontière Française (邊境法式甜點)

If you also have a sweet tooth as me, I strongly recommend you to go there and have some dessert. When I visit there, I didn’t know that I would write a blog, so I didn’t take many pictures. However, I still want to introduce the dessert I tried.

Montélimar (蒙特利馬) 160NTD

Montélimar is the one on the right side. I didn’t take pictures of it alone, but you still can see that the cake is covered by a layer of white mousse. Granulated pistachios(開心果) are added in the mousse to improve the flavor. The stuff cover by the white mousse is cheery mousse and black chocolate cake. The different kinds of stuff in this cake verify the texture of it. You could sample each one alone, or taste them together. Every bite could bring you to a new world.

Maslow Triangle (馬斯洛三角形) 140NTD

The eye-catching color and shape of this cake would definitely catch your sight when you walk into Frontière Française. This cake is made of cheese cake and passion fruit. It is not only beautiful but scrumptious.

Information

FH Hostel (繁華青旅): No. 59, Guomin 1st Street, Hualien City, Hualien County (花蓮縣花蓮市國民一街59號970 號)

Frontière Française (邊境法式甜點): No. 73, Mingzhi Street, Hualien City, Hualien County (花蓮縣花蓮市明智街73號)

Time flies, this is the last time I’m required to write my blog in my composition class. Before taking this course in this semester, I had always wanted to write a blog, but I didn’t make up my mind to do it. Thanks to Jane, my teacher for forcing me to leave my comfort zone. What I’m trying to say is that, this is the end of this semester, but not the end of this blog. I still have a long way to go to polish my English, and I plan to keep writing this blog in the future. If you are interested in the things I share with you, you could keep following this blog. I’ll try my best to update my blog and keep introducing culture, history and food, especially things about Taiwan.

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Things you should know about National Cheng Kung University, Department of Taiwanese Literature

Have you ever been to Li-Hsing campus in National Cheng Kung University? In my point of view, it is the most beautiful campus of NCKU. Among the several buildings in Li-Hsing campus, the buildings of Department of Taiwanese Literature is my favorite. Having studied in NCKU for three years, I not only learn profession of my department but also develop the sense of culture and history. I am lucky because I study in Tainan, the ancient capital and there is a fantastic department, Department of Taiwanese Literature in NCKU which providing many courses about Taiwan.

My story about understanding the importance of culture and history is long; therefore, I wouldn’t talk about it in this article. The things I would like to mention today is that you cannot miss the chance of visiting Department of Taiwanese Literature when you come to NCKU.

Usually, why we consider a thing is beautiful is depending on its appearance; however, if we know the history about a thing, we could find the inner beauty of it. Thus, I would like to introduce the history of the buildings of Department of Taiwanese Literature in following paragraphs.

Located in Li-Hsing campus, the buildings of Department of Taiwanese Literature is a blend of Japanese and Western style architecture. You could not only see the western style arches but Japan-style roof. Because of Meiji Restoration, Japanese learn lots of things from Western countries, including architecture. At the time, Taiwan was occupied by Japan, and Japanese architects who had learn western architecture apply what than learn in Taiwan. This is the reason why we could usually some western style historical sites built by Japanese. The buildings were constructed as military hospital by Japanese from 1917 and finished in 1918 (except the auditorium which was built in 1937). After WWII, the buildings became the Fourth Army Hospital and 804 Hospital. At that time, it was the most important hospital for people living in Tainan and people called it “804 Hospital.” In 1987, 804 hospital moved to north and the buildings were abandoned for a long time until 2003, they were taken as historical sites by Tainan City government and became Department of Taiwanese Literature in 2013.

This year, 2017 is the 100th anniversary of the construction of the buildings of Department of Taiwanese Literature. There is an exhibition of the history of the buildings and artworks made by students of Taiwanese Literature Department from May31 to June14.

I strongly recommend you to see the exhibition. Understanding the history of the place you live, you could love it more and develop deeper relationship with it.

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