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W.C.I. Students Return From Taiwan

Sunday, 29 March 2015 11:41

After an 11 day trip to Taiwan, W.C.I. students are walking away with a life changing experience

WOODSTOCK - Students at Woodstock Collegiate Institute got a new appreciation for home by travelling aboard.

A group of high school students travelled to Taipei, Taiwan to take part in an official twinning ceremony linking WCI and Tamkang High School.

While there each student was matched up with a 'buddy' to help them adjust to the cultural differences and teach them about life in Taiwan. Taylor Vandermeer, a WCI student, says, "They were the one to really take us out, and explained how the town worked. Just to have someone who could help you with the culture there because it's so much different than what it is here. Like, people are so polite so you have to remember to say please and thank you a lot more than what you would here."

The students also learned a new appreciation for many of the freedoms they experience in Canada. For Chloe Briggs, a WCI student, seeing the schooling system in Taiwan gave her a different view on her own education.

The school the students visited was actually founded by an Oxford man - Reverend George Leslie Mckay of Oxford. In that area of Taipei many of the locals still revere him for his work with not only schools, but churches and medical centres as well. Cassie Rook of Woodstock Collegiate Institute says it was amazing to see how welcoming the locals were to Canadians.

At the end of the trip, Taylor says it was hard to say goodbye to their new friends.

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