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and you miss her well
yes but i'm also having a lot of fun
there are so many interesting things here
and you can see more today we're going back to taroko gorge
i love the gorge i know
but today we're going to an aboriginal village for tourists
we can learn about their culture are there many aboriginal tribes on
taiwan there are 13 tribes we are visiting a village of the turoko
tribe today what can we do there
we can eat some aboriginal food and watch dances
that sounds fun where is brian
we're meeting him at his house does he know a lot about the village he
knows a lot about everything you can see a lot there and you can shop
too shop yes
you can buy some arts and crafts i can buy some from my family at home
here we are what a beautiful place
everything is so green i want to see everything
you will let's start at the visitor center
you can see a lot of things there yes
you'll want to see the presentation about the aborigines you'll learn a lot
great but what can brian the brain tell me
about them there are over
450 000 aborigines on taiwan now
they came here many years ago
some live here in the mountains others live on the plains
what did they do they fished or hunted they also did some
farming too and some of the mountain tribes were head hunters
but they don't hunt heads anymore
right of course not
the presentation will talk about it are the taroko a large tribe
no they're a small tribe the amis are a
large tribe many of them also live in the hualien
area they have a big harvest festival every
year it's a lot of fun
i want to see that maybe you can another time
if you don't have time this year then i'll come back so i can see the
festival good
what's that building the architecture is wonderful
we'll see the presentation about the taroco tribe in there
then we'll look at the exhibits in another building
i'd like to see them we'll also see some of their arts and
crafts and some taroko women may be weaving
and later we can see some taroko dances i can't wait
that was a good presentation i learned a
lot me too i didn't know about their tattoos when i
first came to hualien years ago i saw those tattoos a lot now
i rarely see them only very old people have them now
is someone taking pictures of them they need to preserve that part of their
culture i know some people are doing that
the taroko women are very good at weaving
they use lots of colors now but they used to use only white with
some red and green weaving must take a lot of time
it does let's go back to the gift shop now i
want to buy something from my mother sure
but don't shop too long we still have more to see
can we see the dances now not now
we'll see them after dinner we can eat barbecued pork and bamboo
rice sounds interesting i want to try them
but we still have a couple of hours before
dinner let's go walk in the bamboo forest
it's above the visitors center we can see lots of plants and birds
there let's go
[Applause] do you want to buy one
what are they they are poems in the toroku language
this one is all about bamboo really the writing is so pretty
what are you looking at this man is selling taroko poems do you
think i should buy one i think you should save your money those
aren't taroko poems last time we started three questions and
answers today we'll continue to start the other three okay how how old is your
niece okay anyone here how old is your niece how old is your son-in-law how how
old is your cousin how old is your nephew okay
she's that is if that is a girl a woman if
that is a boy or a man we have to say he okay she's 10
years old you can say she's 10 that is still okay she's 10 or she's 10 years
old okay any any age is here she's 10 she's 20 she's five
does your father-in-law like dancing you you're asking about uh your relatives
hobby okay there's your father-in-law like dancing you can say there's your
mother-in-law does your grandparents like dancing
swimming singing playing golf playing tennis okay
if that is yes you say yes he does and you can add some more information he's
very good at dancing okay and if that is not you say no he doesn't and you can as
an information that he likes other hobbies okay so that is he likes women
that means like he doesn't like dancing but he likes women
uh how many
cousins do you have how many cousins do you have how many
nieces do you have how many nephews do you have okay
i have five cousins okay i have three cousins something like that
so again we have how old is your niece how old is your niece she's 10 years old
she's 10 years old does your father-in-law like dancing
does your father-in-law like dancing yes he does he's very good at dancing yes
he does he's very good at dancing no he doesn't he likes swimming no he doesn't
he likes swimming how many cousins do you have
how many cousins do you have i have five cousins i have five cousins
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is dinner ready mom yes go get paul
he's eating dinner with us why
his parents aren't home tonight okay
john there can you get the chopsticks sure
dinner smells good can i help
no no patty sit here i'm back with paul