Mountain Top Cafe

I was so happy yesterday!!!
Ha!
I'm just been here for 1 more week, but I joined a teacher meeting in a mountain top Cafe called Aliman which is operated by an aboriginal couple.
The last meeting of those teacher was three years before coz the former principle was not really popular and friendly.
There were no private meeting at all during that three years!
You can imagine how lucky I am!

A photo of all of the participants

You can see the holy mountain of Bunun from this Cafe,
but the sky was not that clear yesterday.

Although we visited there after the lunch,
everybody still got a good appetite on everything cooked by the hostress.

This is the most special meal~ sambhar (水鹿)!
I think I never tried it before, but it is quite delicious.
I hope it will not be the endangered animal
coz the owner said to me it's impossible to buy this meat outside XD.

The beauful vally!
So you can imagine how rough the road to climb up the mountain~
It's worth I think!

Traditional Bunun clothes~
Balck for males, and White for females.

Oh~ A cup of coffee in the afternoon!
Like in the heaven la!

Me and some young teachers.

It's quite a remarkable experience to go out with those teachers.
Some of them are really responsible coz they still discuss about how to handle with those trouble maker kids.
I think that is a serious and important problem here.
You can start to find out some kids they are totally losing their interests in the classes.
The huge difference between those kids can be easily found out in a 15 people class.
Sometimes I felt so tired to ask everyone in the classs quiet to let the class keep going.
I heard the teacher of 6 grade said that those kids' knowledge are generally still in the grade 5.
How can they compete with others when they go to the high school?

Mm~ Maybe there is still some hope since the educational environment are getting better 'slowly.'
For example, I found one kid in the grade 6 who has a reading habit.
Surprisingly, his reading is above the high school degree I think.
It's quite cheerful!

Well~ I still love the atmosphere on the mountains.
Most of us just enjoy the chill of the mountains and sip the fantastic coffee with the legendary nature!
:)