Just wear casual clothes and slippers and bring a laptop...Cultural shock eh? I packed so many office or formal clothes but turns out I packed the wrong kind of clothes...LoL, I should have brought more casual attire.
Aletheia University is a private university in Taiwan. It is the sport management pioneer in Taiwan, the first university that established a Sports Management Department. Similar to University Malaya which was also the first university in Malaysia to offer Sport Studies.
We arrived very early..Office time is 9am-5pm...But we arrived at 8:15am.
Nika aka Lu Mei is like the administrator, our boss. Nika gave us the link of the websites..we checked it and noted some mistakes. When Nika came in at 9am to see us, she asked us to check the websites...we already did it so we told her what we observed. Later Nika came in and told us to find some info on Malaysia and Singapore but we already did that before we came to Taiwan cause Prof Noah asked us to do it, so we just forwarded it to her...
Wah, Malaysians are so efficient right? haha.
Next, we were called to the Director of Sports Management Department, Cheng-Ter Kuo where we folded the chinese posters and arranged some documents and out them into an envelope. After we were almost done, Nika came in and told us that the documents need to match the name and universities. All the documents, name and universities name were in chinese characters... Owh, now we have to take it all out and match the documents...chinese characters...Test my character recognising skills... huhu.
2nd day of work. We had to copy the seminar guests into the invitation letter on Word then change it to PDF. After we finished it, Nika told us to add the title "Dr." to the names...Ok, here we go again...After that task, we were told to translate the university's Sport Management Department website.
Google translate is not really helpful since it is direct translation so the grammar and meanings can be funny. Chinese traditional characters and cultural differences in the character usage made it tougher for us.
I do not really know Mandarin so just use google and some rational in making sense of the sentences.
At 4.50pm, 10 minutes before our work ended, Nika came in and told us we do not need to translate everything...Well, that's good news right? Not, if you have been translating the page that you don't need to translate... Haha. I found out the year here is 102 year of republic aka the Minguo calendar,
the republic of China Calendar...in Malaysia we use the Gregorian calendar meaning it's year 2013 now.
Our own office but I feel like animals in a zoo, anyone can pass by and look at us, look what's on our laptop screen and what we are doing...huahuahua
Half way instructions and half way through the work receiving a more complete instruction later. Welcome to reality where change is constant and what you do just now may be of no use.
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