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The Ministry of Education entrusted STUST to undertake the "Friendly Taiwan—Overseas Student Host Family Project." STUST recently held the “Traveling on the Street and Taiwan Cultural Experience Activity—Rice Street Tour,” where host families and international students explored the Tainan's century-old historical district—Rice Street. It allowed these international students from different countries to know Taiwan, fall in love with Taiwan, and experience the atmosphere of Taiwan’s New Year.

[STUST took a group photo of "Taiwan Cultural Experience Activity - Rice Street Tour."]

In this event, 11 host families led a total of 30 international students from 10 countries, including India, Vietnam, Swaziland, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Turkey to step on the street together. The host families and the international students of STUST travelled through the alleys full of history, visiting buildings and particular stores with historical and cultural significance, such as the first Mazu Temple in Taiwan, the Kaiji Tianhou Ancestor Temple, the Longshing Yazian Store, Shinshieyi Paper Shop, and Old Lai Fa Bakery, to explore the different historical aspects of Tainan City.

[International students and host families of STUST were visiting Longshing Yazian stores.]

Walking into Rice Street, one could see the red spring couplets and red lanterns all over the street. The strong atmosphere of Spring Festival was accompanied by the sound of beating. It turned out that Longshing Asia Lead Shop was making Asia lead products, which are purely handmade rather than machine-made. This culture is full of freshness and curiosity for international students! Through this activity, host families and international students of STUST had the opportunity to learn more about the culture of the ancient people's livelihood in Tainan.

[Manager Jun-Cheng Wu of National Theater was sharing the history of American theater with international students of STUST and introducing the hand-painted movie billboards.]

An Indian student from STUST said that international students learned to know the Tainan they didn’t know as they strolled in the quaint alleys, explored old houses in Tainan with their host families, and listened to ancient rumors. As the activity drew close to an end, they moved to the century-old bakery Jiulaifa Bakery. In addition to learning about the history of pastries, they also experienced the making process of the gods' favorite dim sum—phoenix slice cake. Even though the students have different religious beliefs, they still focused on and held respectful attitudes as they went through the production. Some students expressed their wish to dedicate the phoenix cake to the gods and pray for the blessings of the gods in Taiwan during their studies in Taiwan.

[A group photo of international students of STUST and their host families at Jiulaifa Bakery.]

This program has promoted 4,731 families to complete the training so far, created a platform for host families to interact with international students, and successfully matched 6,844 international students from 106 countries and regions with 3,728 host families. The program also allowed international students to fully experience Taiwanese local culture. People who are interested in participating in international exchanges could participate in the online training courses, without being limited by space and time, and become part of the plan by taking classes at home. In addition, the program office hold events from time to time, so that host families and international students can develop mutual interactions and promote cultural exchanges through activities. For more information on host family training and experience exchange activities, please refer to the program website: https://www.hostfamily.org.tw.

[International students of STUST and their host families were experiencing making old-fashioned phoenix cakes together.]

[STUST international students and host families visited Shinshieyi Paper Shop, and the proprietress Mei-Lian Wanghong warmly was presenting the traditional twelve zodiac avatars as a souvenir.]

[A group photo of international students from STUST and their host families experiencing making phoenix cakes.]