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【Part 2】

你先通過我的城市-高雄柴山的挑戰之後我就向你推薦和建議其他台灣的山脈 😏

After you pass the challenge of my city - Kaohsiung Shoushan first, I will suggest other mountains in Taiwan to you ha! 🤭😎

and

在這9年間我也常去柴山但每當我經過"A線攻頂"的入口，我都假裝我腿瘸了��眼睛瞎了或是我發燒了哈哈哈，再也不想去挑戰了!

In the past 9 years, I have often gone to Shoushan, but every time I passed the entrance of "Line A to the Top", I pretended that I was lame, blind, or had a fever, hahaha, and never wanted to challenge it again!

(It's very true I'm not joking. unless if I have a boyfriend at mountaintop there and he earn a gold crown then I'll go to celebrate. lol) ℒan ~*

👇貝殼化石 fossilized shells & 👆 Monkey poo poo & land art :)))

Look! The door locked lol So no matter in the end our legs no longer feel like our own, we still have to climb the wall in order to get home/fouling was necessary at the time, and we lose energy to walk to another exit. (The End.) 🙏 Peace! 😊

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EXIF: 35mm, f/5.6, 30 secs, ISO 100. Time: 17:32 on 20 November 2024. Location: Shoushan LOVE Lookout (Kaohsiung, Taiwan). From our Kaohsiung trip last month. Visited Taiwan twice this year (Taipei and Kaohsiung separately). 😅

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Photo of Republican era Mr Cui Shoushan, a famous Praying Mantis exponent, holding a Jian.

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July 31st, 2024 星期三 - Show and tell, hot pot again, stationary haul, moving bridge, 高雄市立圖書館, night market, etc.

Today we had class time at 10:30am, so I went to breakfast and bought a red bull before heading down to the conference room. I immediately locked in on my iPad before having a brief pause to present my picture from one of our activities to the class.

After class time, we were dismissed for about two hours for lunch. I went with one of my classmates to eat at the hot pot restaurant in the hotel. Once we finally found the entrance, we got help from one of the workers to figure out the menu. After ordering and paying, we sat down at our table. While we were paying, the other ladies working were gushing over my capybara keychain and I told them he’s my kid. I eventually asked the male worker why they liked capybaras so much and he said that even though it may not technically be a Japanese animal, in the Taiwanese mind it is related to Japan and they like Japanese stuff a lot. I told him I thought it was interesting because where my dad is from, they eat capybaras and he was surprised haha. After lunch, we went to the stationary store from last night and I did some DAMAGE to my bank account. BUT it was worth it. We hurried back to the hotel to put our stuff down before heading back down to the hotel lobby to meet for class.

Our first stop was to watch the nearby pier bridge turn vertically. We originally thought we could physically be on the bridge, but that was not the case so after making it ¾ of the way to the top, we had to turn back. After standing in both the heat and the rain, we finally saw the bridge turn and then headed to the bus. Our first stop was a giant library that had nine floors. We explored for a bit and I bought gummy bear hair pins from the (rather small) gift shop hehe. There were a lot of students studying at the various study spots and I even found a designated quite room. The library also had movie viewing areas with large curved tvs, couches, and headsets. The roof had a bookstore and a rock climbing area as well. Something random about this library was that the elevator only took you to every three floors—for example, 3,6,8,Roof.

After the library we headed to a train station that had very pretty stained glass art inside. There was coincidentally also a mini Mikan store there so I bought a folding fan. After taking some pictures, and losing a classmate, we headed to the nearby night market to walk around and get dinner.

At the night market, I bought white guava and one of those fried potatoes in a spiral on a stick (I’ve always wanted to try it). The market wasn’t super big compared to the other ones we’ve been to but apparently it was specially a tourist night market, so many that had something to do with it. After staying there for about an hour and half, we took the bus back to the hotel, where I knocked out quickly.

Academic Reflection

I decided to do some research on the gigantic library we visited today. The full name is Kaohsiung Public Main library, and it is located in Cianjhen District. It is the main library of the Kaohsiung public library system and was opened in November of 2014. The building contains eight floors and a heavily utilized rooftop area that even included a rock climbing wall and a bookstore. Regarded in 2017 as one of the top 10 landmarks of Taiwan, this building is considered the world’s first column-suspended green building—meaning it is environmentally responsible and resource-efficient throughout the building’s life cycle.

Before the current library, there was the old main library of Kaohsiung, then called the Kaohsiung Public Education Center, was originally located at the foot of Mt. Shoushan. However, during World War 2, much of its collections were burned to ashes after several series of air raids. The library reopened in 1945 and relocated with a very minuscule collection of Japanese books. The library would then move three more times before settling on Minsheng road in 1981.

The 2014 opening of the Kaohsiung Public Main Library started a wave of local counties and cities opening their own main libraries, therefore expanding educational resources across Kaohsiung.

[beyourselfchulanmaria]

【Part 1】

你先通過我的城市-高雄柴山的挑戰之後我就向你推薦和建議其他台灣的山脈 After you pass the challenge of my city - Kaohsiung Shoushan first, I will suggest other mountains in Taiwan to you ha!

👆 我這張封面頭像的故事背景就是我住的城市有一座人盡皆知、依山傍海並且滿是台灣猿猴的"柴山"，山上有很多爬山的路線，退休老人當然都選比較容易健行的路線，而我們卻挑戰一條俗稱"A線攻頂"。(The story background of my cover photo is that the city where I live has a well-known "Shoushan／Monkey Mountain", which is surrounded by mountains and seas and there's full of Taiwanese apes. There are many climbing routes on the mountain, and retired elders of course choose the easier ones to hike. route, but we challenged a route commonly known as "A line to the top" The path very less people go even young guys under the sun heat day.) ～

We chose a way It's really terrible difficulty climbing path to top of mountain, especially way to back I still remember clearly want me die at the time. lol and look my face… XD I was serious thinking & praying secretly : Jesus, Did I use my two legs get down to moutain or could you give me wings flying but rather a ball rolling down straight to the hospital better?! You know that I even almost cry to please : Oh No!

柴山 (Shoushan, Kaohsiung/Taiwan) - 入口位於中山大學文學院旁 / A線攻頂記 ◠‿◠ in 2015, April. 28. (It was 9 years ago. Time flies! lol)

Since a story He was a New Zealand mountaineer, explorer and philanthropist. On 29 May 1953, Hillary and Nepalese Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers to reach the summit of Mount Everest. once He said: "The key is not just to climb to reach the summit of Everest, it should be able to secure more important down." And as people said that " It's not ending on the hilltop, Must be returned safely to be successful. If you want to mountain climbing, be sure to leave enough time to come back. "  then climbed on mountain, though laborious, but not prone to danger. If down the mountain, It's easily slip down. so have to grasp the balance. And if the speed is too fast, legs and feet will be sore and trembling. Accidentally, it became a free fall and fell directly down the mountain. In addition, the metaphor ~~~ "When a person's social status will improve honored, It's easy for their life, but if It became lower status, it felt embarrassed and sad days. Must be learn and To face it also." ...much regard.

距今約70年前第一個登上珠穆朗瑪峰的紐西蘭的登山家和探險家艾德蒙·希拉里曾經說過：「攀登珠峰的關鍵並不只是登上頂峰，應該是能夠安全下山更為重要。」以及「登山不是登頂就結束了，還得安全返回才算成功。如果要登山的話，一定要留夠回來的時間。」意指上山雖費力但不容易發生危險，下山雖省力卻容易失足。下山時重力重心是向下，自身作用力也是向下，所以要確實掌握住平衡，弄不好前衝力過大，會發生危險。以及速度如果太快，腿腳會發酸並且發抖。一不小心變成為自由落體直接滑落山下。另外，比喻~~~「當一個人的社會地位提高時感到榮耀，日子容易過，但若是地位降級時感到丟臉，日子難過。」

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July 30 - Monkey Mountain and Art Museums

We were told to meet in the hotel lobby at 1pm for today’s activities, so we had a free morning. I got up earlier and ate breakfast in the hotel because most of us were planning on hiking together in the morning. We headed out to Shoushan Mountain right after breakfast. It was a demanding hike because it was mostly up muddy rock steps. The view was beautiful. We could see the South China Sea and the city of Kaohsiung. We saw some monkeys on the way up, but once we got to the top, we saw so many macaques. After we got back to the bottom of the mountain, we went straight back to the hotel to shower right before meeting up with rest of the class. Our bus took us first to the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts. The first floor had statues, and then I went upstairs to all of the beautiful paintings. Then, we went to another art museum, the ALIEN Art Centre. They had a few exhibits of very modern artists. For dinner, I went with three of the guys to a nearby Taiwanese restaurant. I got my own hot and sour noodle soup, and we shared meat pies, scallion pancakes, beef rolls, and soup dumplings. The food was so good that we might come back again before leaving Kaohsiung.

Academic Reflection:

I first learned that the monkeys I saw are called Formosan rock macaques, and they are endemic to Taiwan. They are also the only primate native to Taiwan, other than Taiwanese humans of course. Today on the bus, Peter taught us about the Taiwanese military and how they require conscription for most young men. He said the exceptions are for men over a certain weight or under a certain height.

At the first art museum, I started on the top floor, which taught me all about this one artist’s life and how he feels like he is always running from his life. He had small statues exaggerating people running and colorful, geometric, chaotic paintings. On other floors, I learned about more traditional paintings of Taiwanese landscapes. They had some paintings of places that we are visiting soon in Kaohsiung. There was an exhibit with a projector showing Taiwanese art in different years. At the other museum, the ALIEN Art Centre, I saw much more modern art and learned about the two artists that had exhibits there. Their art was so much more abstract than the pieces I had seen at the first museum.

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July 30th - Monkey Mountain, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Alien Art Center

Cough still present, maybe slightly better. Today, was an early and miserable start. We woke up at 7:15 to get ready for the hike (which was a voluntary choice for some reason). We took the train and then walked about 20 minutes to the start of the trail. I did not know what I was in for. I thought it was going to be an easy hike to see the native monkeys because apparently, they inhabit the trail pretty heavily. We saw some monkeys as soon as we started and I should have turned back. Unfortunately, I decided to stay with the group. We hiked up pretty far and I was feeling good, but we started to realize it was going to take longer than 1 hour. We kept going and decided we would have to take a shortcut because we weren’t going to be able to do the full easy loop. A man speaking Chinese was trying to direct us away from the trail, but none of us completely understood why. So, we headed off to our deaths. This was arguably the hardest trail I have ever climbed in my entire life. Not only was the ground muddy, the humidity and heat were unbearable. Not to mention, the climbing we had to do because it was so steep. Also, most of us had run out of water at this point because we thought we were going for a casual stroll. My heart rate was a solid 179 as we ascended, and I was trying to be very cautious with it and told myself I would stop at 180 because of my health issues. After about 30 minutes of genuine torture, we found a woman who spoke to us in Chinese about getting to the top. She could tell we were struggling and decided to be our tour guide. She had to be about 50 to 60, so it was very humbling. Each of us were drenched in sweat. I had to take my shirt off and it looked like it was dunked into a pool. We finally got to the top and saw a bunch of monkeys, but as far as I was concerned, I was ready to leave. The woman who was our brand new tour guide said we couldn’t go down the way we went up because it was too dangerous, so we had to go the long way. Finally, we made it all the way back down and I realized I was getting sick from dehydration. I didn’t want to drink any more water, I started shaking, and I started to get very nauseous. I took a Zofran that I brought with me to keep my fluids down and tried to drink my last bottle. When we got back to the hotel, it was already time to start the activities for the day, which included two art museums. They were cool and I saw some pretty art, but the problem is that we weren’t allowed fluids in the museum, so my dehydration was not getting any better. I picked up an apple juice and cookies at the gift shop for some quick sugar, but it made me more nauseous. The fun didn’t end there though because we had to go to another museum, which also did not allow fluids. I was so ready to go back at this point and kept getting worse. Honestly, I don’t remember much of the second museum and I ended up sitting in the bus to cool down. We finally got back to the hotel and I am patiently waiting for it to be time to take my next dose of Zofran. I haven’t been able to eat much or drink, so I’m trying to get some fluids down as I write this.

Academic Reflection

It’s only fair that I reflect on Monkey Mountain (aka Shoushan Mountain). Shoushan Mountain is located in the southwest area of Kaohsiung. It lies 365 meters above sea level and is about 5 km long and 2.5 km wide. The mountain was formed from coral reefs pushed up from collision between the Eurasian and Philippine Plates. It gets its name from the hundreds of Formosan Macaques that inhibit the area. The mountain is also home to some of the earliest archaeological remains ever found in Kaohsiung, dating at about 5,000 years old. The area also served as a military installation during the Qing dynasty. The difficulty is supposed to be moderate, but that has to be for the installed path. I would beg to differ about the difficulty rating for this, but I guess it depends on which way you decide to go. Apparently, from a few blogs I was reading about it, the monkeys are quite aggressive and do attack people if they look at them in their eyes. They also like to steal food. I am glad I got to see it once, but I cannot say I will be going back anytime soon.

Citations

https://eng.taiwan.net.tw/m1.aspx?sNo=0002121&id=20

https://www.foreignersintaiwan.com/blog/monkey-mountain-shoushan

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July 30 - Shoushan hiking trail, Museum of Fine Arts, and Alien Art Center 

This morning we had off to do whatever we wanted, and seeing as we weren’t able to go to Shoushan yesterday we made a plan to get out there early. A nice 7:30 wake up and 8:30 departure gave us plenty of time to get out to the trailhead and explore. When we first got there we didn’t know exactly what to expect, but almost immediately we forgot all about the hiking because we found our first monkey. After a good number of pictures we got back on the trail and immediately just went the wrong way. If we stayed on the wooden path it would’ve taken us right to the top no problems, but we went on some other, unpaved, paths that looked more exciting. At certain points there was really almost no path at all, and it felt like we were climbing straight up. In the end, we made it to the top and had an amazing view of both the sea and Kaohsiung. Naturally, we decided to take the proper route back down. It was a tough hike and we were all drenched in sweat, but everyone enjoyed it and was glad they went. 

After getting back to the hotel everyone raced to take showers before we had to get back downstairs to meet up with the whole group. Today was art themed, whether it was intentional or not. The first place we went to was the Museum of Fine Arts. There was another fine arts museum in Taipei that I wanted to go to on a free day, but it was unfortunately closed. Since I wasn’t able to go before, I was actually really excited to go now. Once inside we all got our tickets and were able to explore for about an hour. I broke off by myself to really be able to enjoy everything at my own pace. After a while I had seen everything and decided to meet up with other people to pass the rest of the time. 

Once everyone was done here we hopped back on the bus and headed to the Alien Art Center. I love art, and appreciate it greatly. I usually am able to enjoy art, no matter how strange, but the majority of the pieces here I just didn’t understand. I don’t hate abstract art or anything, it’s just that I really struggled to find any enjoyment out of most of the pieces here. That being said, there were still some really cool things. One room on the ground floor was incredibly dark and had this ambient music playing, which I found really nice because of the atmosphere it built. 

One of the most interesting pieces of art I saw all day was five separate paintings of Chiang Kai Shek. I forget the exact name of the piece, but it was something along the lines of “five stages of Chiang Kai Shek.” The reason I found this so interesting was because of the progression of how Chiang was represented in each one. The first three were relatively normal paintings of his head facing towards the viewer. The fourth was just another normal head except turned to the side a bit. However, the fifth one looked almost entirely different. To me, Chiang Kai Shek's face in this is reminiscent of a Japanese oni mask. It looks evil, and could even be described as demonic. The reason I found this specific artwork so interesting is because I understood it to be a representation of how the Taiwanese people felt about Chiang Kai Shek over time. At first, he may have been viewed as just a standard leader. Towards the end, or in other words the current day, he is viewed more as an “evil” figure. I may just being overthinking it, but if I’m not I think this artwork is a brilliant piece of commentary on such a controversial figure. 

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