This week, one of the grandma shared more about her attachment and relations with Naluwan in Hsinchu. What’s interesting is that she mentioned despite moving from Taitung, she don’t face the issue of a loss of culture, as the people here, including the younger ones in Hsinchu still...Read more
When we first arrived at the Naluwan tribe in Hsinchu, we were just in time to join in with the elderly of the tribe, at what seemed their morning exercise. They played various stretches on the big screen and all the elderly participated actively in it. Standing at the back of the room and...Read more
Listening to the passing trains slowly accelerating away made me excited for what was to come in Naluwan. Arriving at Xiangshan station was a whole new feeling, it was peaceful. The station was completely empty, except for our group and a little schoolgirl who alighted with us. The roads...Read more
Interesting how you managed to discover the Amis language connection to Malay, further connection to Austronesian, and the similarities the language has to other Asian...Read more
We had a very engaging time this week at Naluwan with our grandmas. Together with the grandmas, we made seashell hanging ornaments using the shells we collected last week. Molly from our class led the activity, and she recounted how this reminded her of her parents back home in Sweden...Read more
I was seated with the same grandmas of the families I met last week and was also attached to a new grandma at the table. All three of them recounted their time whereby they went out to the sea to harvest seashells. They mentioned that the sea water level played an important role in...Read more
