Interview with Mat: Language Barrier? Culture Shock?
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Beautiful NCCU, Swiss way from the capital of Switzerland. OK, why did you pick Taiwan? Um, or Auntie? See you is the question of possible Uh So why choose someone? So I thought management hubs around the world of Singapore, Hong Kong, you know, why not go there? And then at that point, there was like, there might be two in our international thinking before, Uh, so I look for other jobs around the world and portion be my invested in agreement with NCIS. You in Taiwan? I was like, No, I want some fun once you get it. I was astonished by it gives you pictures, great country. What hasn't he surprised you fell in love with Okay, there's honestly I'm serious mining everything when I get Teo. Um So before you came here, you couldn't speak mandarin. What was it like coming to Taiwan and Taipei with, uh, with only being able to communicate in English here with the challenging or, um yes, it was, but Tony's could speak a little English. You can use my hands as well and your pictures like, but now you know how to say way off, too. If you want, have anything, anywhere, just a good friend. What about culture shock? Not really, actually, uh, because when traveling before beforehand to Singapore to really, you know, easy step into the Asian culture and Malaysia, which in there people deeper step in today's culture in Taiwan, Which is it totally different culture for on its own. So I was actually find the whole house thing is very, very accommodating. What have you gotten involved with on campus, right? So if you get the chance to be involved in anything here in campus, go to the English Department and ask if they have any pro project standing up. If it's drama it's musical with, if it's comedy's a guess. No department was very fortunate to get to your spot in it, and we've They're neared yesterday. No, it was a really cool experience to get involved with them immediately.
