Fili’s world

After the first English corner where I was trying to make the point that Taiwanese and international students should do alot more together, the guy in charge of English corner was pretty excited with that fact that I come from “Jewish culture” which he studied during his university years. He requested that I once again come to speak at English corner to introduce the “long amazing history of Jewish culture” to the Taiwanese, while trying to practice his Yiddish jokes with me even though I don’t know any Yiddish. I thought about it for a second and then told him that I’d rather talk about Israeli culture and the average everyday life in Israel with the title “Traditionally Modern“. He agreed, and so I did…

Addressing the first lectures reactions to Israel being a very dangerous place to live in or a very holy place for the Christian Taiwanese, I opened up with those two videos from Israel’s Tourism Office. I could see the English corner guy moving uncomfortably in his chair and enjoyed watching the Taiwanese students’ reactions:

The presentation was based on the Israel introduction I previously gave to student clubs in NCKU with the addition of what a religious Jewish Saturday usually looks like :

And then wrapped it up with a promo for the Taiwanese “World number 1″ visit to Israel with sweet Israeli-Taiwanese Violet. If you want some more information about Israel visit “Taiwanese Israel information resources and a Taiwanese visit to Israel“.

I highly enjoy taking part in projects like that because of the  opportunity to share some of my life with others and the chance to talk with the Taiwanese students afterwards. Hopefully, the Taiwanese there enjoyed it as well…