Karalyn's Health Day - Hospitals, Coffee and Wine

Excercise bikes in the waiting room - great idea!

The day started out with breakfast at the hotel, then the team headed to National Chen Kung University Hospital.

After three unsuccessful attempts to collect the exchange student that would join us for the day, we finally arrived. We were shown the complete hospital including the in-patient and out-patient area, PET area for cancer detection (where they use glucose reactive) and what we would term in Australia as a private hospital.
We were also given information by a volunteer about the difficulties of getting organ donors in Taiwan. The situation is even more serious than in Australia, with only 200 transplants per year, and over 10,000 on the waiting list.
Rotary is a large donor to the hospital.
It was a very interesting, and well presented overview of how the hospital works, and a very effective vocational visit for Karalyn.

After leaving the hospital, we arrived at lunch. Traditional food was on the menu again with the main discussions being centred around what combination of food would be served in the banquet and how many courses would there be.

It seemed to be Karalyn's day - we visited Yu-Ting's (outbound GSE Team member) cafe. Her father is an architect and had designed the building, the unique features combined with Japanese design has created a stunning work of art. The water features, music and coffee/cake made for a very enjoyable and relaxing afternoon.

Photos do not do justice to the brilliance of this cafe!

We left the coffee shop to visit the Literacy Museum. However, it is closed Mondays! The team spotted retail shops across the roundabout and shoe shopping commenced where I purchased a new pair of shoes.

After a short break back at the hotel to get changed, the team arrived at Tainan Rotary Club. During the presentation, in order to engage the audience, I volunteered Karalyn to demonstrate a kookaburra laugh. After a panicked look, she gave an excellent demonstration. The football demonstration is getting worse - fortunately we have not yet broken anything.

After the meeting, it is traditional for Tainan Club to visit a wine shop for a few glasses and perhaps a cigar. We were included in this. After a short visit, the team arrived back at the hotel to write the blog, relax and prepare for the remaining days.

Four days to go of GSE.....Count down is on.