Dear friends,
Today was a very fun day. Patty, a local English teacher, took me and four other Fulbrighters to Mei-Nung, a Hakka Village 40 minutes outside of Kaohsiung. The Hakka are a type of tribe in Taiwan. This particular Hakka village is famous for their hand-painted umbrellas and hand-made pottery. The name, "Mei-Nung," means "beautiful (thick) mist." It is nestled among several small hills that are covered with bananas trees and beetle nut trees.

You can find the photo album for this day, here. We walked around the shops, saw the beautifully painted umbrellas, and then...made our own pottery! You won't get to see the grand masterpiece that I made until the end of this month when they send it to me. So, sit tight, and I'll post again when my hand-crafted artifact comes in =D. After making pottery, we had lunch and picked lemons at Patty's lemon farm.

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