【How is my life in Taiwan?】
I still remembered my exciting feeling last December when I got the acceptant email from the International Program on Urban Governance (IPUG) at National Taipei University. I’m counting on my unexpected experience in Taiwan from that time.
Here and now, my first semester at NTPU is ending soon, how time flies! My first four months at NTPU was a great time for me, I have a good chance to learn many courses about urban studies and public policy with many professional professors and multi-cultural classmates both Taiwanese and friends who come from Indonesia, Turkey, and France (and many more). IPUG encourages us to exchange culture and case studies from our city with classmates, this great academic environment broader my perspective view and enhances my better understanding of why urban governance so important. Last, IPUG not only teach me how to manage the city from exploring case studies in Taipei and Taiwan but also answer my last-long question I wonder that how I (and everyone) can be a part of making a better city.
At NTPU Sanxia campus also full of leisure activities. I spend my free time finding new books on the bookshelf and sit to read in our gorgeous library and I’m very impressed with the greenery view in our Sanxia campus, the clear sky, the high mountain, and beautiful sunset view at the lake is memorable scenery here.
The reason why I choose to study aboard not only for my academic purposes but I need to explore many experiences and break out of my comfort zone. I always spend weekend time traveled in Taipei and other cities like Taichung and Keelung to sense a lot of different places, local people, and culture to learn more about what is the real Taiwan be? Traveling is another good choice to help me know more about this fascinating country.
Lastly, I want to say thank you to everyone I met in this semester sincerely (especially IPUG program’s staff for kindly supporting for my smoother life here) and I’m looking forward to how my life in NTPU will be in the next 2 years, it still unexpected but I’m sure it would be a memorable one in my life.
-Phanuphan Veeravaphusit (Nook)-
