Happy Birthday Cheng Da!/成大、お誕生日おめでとう！

今日は成功大学の誕生日だった。８１年前、日本時代に成立された。誕生日を祝う為に、運動会が有って、私達華語中心の学生は20人21脚のレースに出た。競走の結果はちょっと残念だったので、その話を流して、Tシャツの話をしようと。

可愛いだろう？中学生の体育の衣服を思い出す。スカイブルーの選択も可愛らしい。（また、ぽいっと置いた甚平も写真の右下に出ている。写真をパソコンに入れて見てから分かった。恥ずかしいけど、もう一枚の写真を撮る気は無いんだから、許して。）

Today is the 81st birthday of Cheng Kung University.  If you count back the years, you can see that it was founded during the Japanese period.  As part of the celebrations, there were a bunch of races with different teams from different departments.  The Mandarin Center fielded a team in the 21-legged race.  We, uh, didn't do so well...

At any rate, our T-shirts were really cute!  Look at this!  Isn't it adorable?  (Also, check out my bedsheets.  I got them when I joined the Freemasons, but don't tell anyone, ok?)

 しかも、メードイン台湾だ！台湾に来てから、台湾製の物の多さに吃驚した。台湾の工場はアメリカのより大分元気みたいだ。アメリカでは滅多にアメリカ製の物を見掛けないから。
The T-shirts are Made in Taiwan too.  From what I've heard, Taiwan is suffering from some of the same de-factorization (is that a word?) that most developed countries have had to deal with.  A lot of factories have moved to cheaper places, China especially.  However, it seems like Taiwan is still making a decent amount of their own stuff.  I see "Made in Taiwan" products all the time.  It's a pretty stark contrast with the US.