CYCU Experience Camp in Brunei

In order to promote the New Southbound Policy, CYCU established the “New Southbound Office” officially in November this year and moved forward to the Chinese high school in Brunei, “Chung Hua Middle School Kuala Belait”, where the University students were assigned to lead the local junior high school and senior high school students to attend the cultural camp and also achieve the objectives for personnel training and cultural exchange. (Photographed by Lai Yu-Wei)

In order to promote the New Southbound Policy, CYCU established the “New Southbound Office” officially in November this year and moved forward to the Chinese high school in Brunei, “Chung Hua Middle School Kuala Belait”, where the University students were assigned to lead the local junior high school and senior high school students to attend the cultural camp and also achieve the objectives for personnel training and cultural exchange.

According to CYCU, the teaching activity refers to the 3-day courses designed by 19 teachers and students from different departments of CYCU in the form of Service-Learning, including DIY, creation of picture books and singing & dancing, in order to enable the local students to know about Taiwan through the active and creative learning activity.

The senior student of Department of Applied Linguistics and Language Studies participating in the activity, Hung Yi-Jou, revealed that all of the courses were designed and planned by the student group, and all of them had to verify the local custom and tradition, and characteristics and formation of the Chinese school at first, and then discussed, modified and thought about how to design the courses integrating the traditional Chinese cultures for 2~3 weeks. Hung Yi-Jou said that although the work was hard, she felt that all of their efforts worth it when presenting the results and seeing the local students’ active participation and smiling.

The students participating in the Workshops were primarily the local junior high school students of 7th~10th grade in Brunei. The hand-made Chinese knots, production and creation of traditional folding fan, and art of paper cutting impressed everyone. In the courses for picture book creation, the junior high school student of 10th grade, Hsu Chia-Wen, indicated that big brothers and sisters taught them to complete a picture book with only one piece of paper, and they completed their own story books at last.

Source: http://www.chinatimes.com/newspapers/20171129000628-260107