NTNU

I told you about Taida yesterday, today about Shida. Shida is the colloquial form of NTNU, National Taiwan Normal University (Kuoli Taiwan Shifan Daxue). Shida is a much smaller university than Taida, but they are really proud of the quality of some departments, specially the Chinese Culture Department. My office is in the little campus that they have in the Gongguan area, which is the Science campus. The main campus is about 2km NW from there. Not very far, but it takes a while walking.


This campus is small, specially compared to Taida's. But because of that, it is very quiet. It has some sport fields, and then an avenue with the department buildings, at the end of which it is my building

and several student dorms. Everything is near by. There is an elevated highway and the river just behind it.

There are not many vegetal decorations, but there is a little garden in front of my building, where I've been having lunch lately if it's cloudy, and a little farther away a small wet area where you can hear frogs at night.



It is a pity that there is a small hell of noise, cars, scooters, and concrete between the Shida Branch campus, as it is usually called, and Taida.