The Start of our intern =)

Our official intern starts today! 

We went to the one and only Taipei Animal Shelter! *Seriously the only one* 

we have to use the MRT all the way to DongHu *東湖站* then walk to the Animal Shelter. We used taxi that day because we were not sure where it's location

I was holding the address to the Animal Shelter from Sylvie

Well~ this is the place! =)

Something interesting I saw when we arrived there is this particular 3 legged dog. It seems to be enjoying it's life rooming around the compound, glad they gave him a place despite it's disabilities. 

The shelters are really well equipped with the necessary tools, equipment and even transportation to help the animals. It's great!

some of the staff dogs were inside too. This one really clever! can shake hands~

We met Professor Andrew Chang Young Fei from the School of Veterinary Medicine, National Taiwan University. He was there that day to give us the lecture on Animal Rights. It was a very interesting day for me because I've never had an in depth knowledge about Animal Rights. Why they are doing the things they are doing.

He taught us so many things from the moral status of animals in the ancient world to the philosophy mind of many famous philosophers who influence greatly on how the world treated animals from all these century until now.

He even introduce PETA *People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals* which is one of the largest animal rights organization in the world, with more than 2 million members, he is one of them =)

It will be pretty lengthy if I post all of those here and I think most or all readers will fall asleep! ~ I'll just get the the main point =)

He showed us some very disturbing videos on how the daily meat that we buy from the supermarket, leather we wear, milk we drink...how all these were produced. 

Here's an example of the video:
*Viewer discretion is advised*

  

It was really sad to watch all this videos. How I wish it's not true, but unfortunately all of these are the very facts industry hide from consumers. All this time, normal people like me just go to the supermarket and purchase without knowing where/how those food were taken.  

It's not like the professor is asking us to be Vegans, but rather for us to know the facts and would change the perspective on Animal Protectors, because for those who never knew the truth would have thought Animal Protectors are extremist. 

Well the main point from the lesson that day is that Animal can't stands up for themselves like we human can. They do what instincts tells them to, they can't reason like us, but they have feelings, they feel pain, they feel scare. They can't speak for themselves, so from my very personal opinion deep down....we should act as their advocators, stand up and flight for them.

From the left Patricia from Philippines (University of Asia and the Pacific), Michelle from Malaysia (University Kebangsaan Malaysia), Martina from Czech Republic, Me (University Technology Malaysia), Prof Andrew (National Taiwan University), Hengyi from Singapore (Singapore Institute of Management) & Arkkar from Indonesia (University of Indonesia).

We are diverse people from all around the world coming together to care for the animals.

You can be one of them too!   

After the lesson of course it's 'tourist' time! We head down to 艋舺龍山寺 *Mengjia Longshan Temple*

Longshan Temple

We had our dinner at Huaxi Street Night Market!

Our Jump Shoots in front of the the temple *no disrespect*

When we got back another EP Bato from Russia arrived! one of the AIESERCERs Judy fetch him from the airport =)  

We went to the nearby shop to do our laundry. It's my first time to use this kinda machine. 

I never know there's a machine to dry your cloth!!!! We humans really invent everything =)

Later that Evening Vitzy arrived from Mexico! 

She even brought us some Mexico food! *it taste really really really good* sorry you can't taste it =P

Now our big EP family is 'complete' =) 

It will be fun to hang out with such a diverse TEAM!