News

2008.0314

Ritsumeikan Students Hate to Leave

By Jocy Su Campus Reporter Ritsumeikan students said that they did not want to go back to Japan during their farewell party at the Bo-ai Building on the main campus today. By schedule, these eight Japanese students, who spent five weeks at NTNU, will take off and return to Ritsumeikan University on Monday. "I hope that I can come back and study in Taiwan again,” said Yoko Takahashi, a Chinese major from Ritsumeikan. A month ago, Takahashi was explaining that she would fall in love with Chinese history and culture ever since she read Fenshen-Yanyi, the renowned Chinese literature story, and the Three Kingdoms, another major Chinese classical literature piece, along with her fellow seven Ritsumeikan students during the welcome party at the International Lounge.  Today, every one of them was presenting and explaining what they had learned at NTNU for the past month, in Mandarin. The presentation became a discussion of Taiwanese food because these Ritsumeikan students conducted an in-depth analysis on Taiwanese food and compare it with Japanese people’s favorites. Mandarin Training Center instructor Zhang Dai-qi (張黛琪), who was in charge of the Chinese courses for these Japanese students, said that she would focus on improving Ritsumeikan students’ writing abilities because she asked them to turn in a paper before they left.  Also, the center increased a lot of culture-related courses so these Japanese students would know more about Taiwan and the difference between Taiwan and Japan.