City of Festival

Edinburgh is a city with loads of festivals. During the festival season, there was Film Festival in June, and many festivals are held just now. There are just too many activities in the city, I am not sure if I know all of them. To name some of them: Jazz Festival, Edinburgh International Festival, Fringe, Edinburgh Military Tattoo, Islam Festival, and International Book Festival.

On 3 August, 2008, there was the Scottish Sun Edinburgh Festival Cavalcade. More than 80 teams performed in the parade and the Taiwanese Students' Society was one of them! It's the first time that Taiwanese students' society participated in it. I am very glad that we did it. It took few weeks to plan and to practice during the period when everyone is striving for dissertation. Clothes and decorations are hand-maded. It's really amazing that we made it!

Many people helped us. Local Taiwanese provide food and water for our rehearsal. People from different cities came to Edinburgh to participate in the parade. The mayor of Kaohsiung city, 陳菊, visited here and offered us a wonderful meal after the parade.

It's really a cool experience and I LOVE TAIWAN!!