Up with People Cast B 2010 On Tour

Monday we had a CI day in a Senior High school in Taichung.  We went to teach them to know each other better by asking questions of each other. By this we want to show them, they can understand and support each other on a better level.  In the afternoon part of the cast did a mini show. The BTS was nice. All the students enjoyed it. They clapped their hands to the beat of the music.

Tuesday and Wednesday we set up and rehearsed for our last big show in Taiwan on Wednesday. The tech-team and a few other students set up the stage. All the other people did dance, music and education workshops. In the education workshop we saw a video about human trafficking in India and  Nepal. We also discussed the movie extensively.  On Wednesday we also started this day with an education workshop in the morning  We saw a movie and discussed extensively the fact; “global warming on the earth”. In the afternoon we did preparation for the big show that would take place in the. evening. So it was a day full of dance and singing, an awesome rehearsal day. The show in the evening was again successful. Everyone in the audience screamed and laughed because of the happiness.

Thursday we had a culture fair. We had a chance to present our countries. Some countries came together into a bigger group to represent their continent or area they live in. While this all happened other students had a BTS on the same school. When they finished with the BTS, they joined in the the culture fair. Later in the day the whole cast had yoga lessons.

Friday we had an education workshop about “human rights”. We discussed it really openly. The Mexicans presented their country very openly, good job Mexican students. The last big thing this day was the explanation about the flight to Los Angeles, USA and how the next two weeks will look like…

Saturday we had a workshop where we learned about the next tour. Torrin our friend from New Zealand give also his culture preparation. We learned with video and explanation from him about the bird “Kiwi” and so much more.  This was the last day that we as the first UWP group in Taiwan had together, so we had a Taiwan wrap up. We discussed what we liked/didn’t like from Taiwan, what we learned, what our experience was, and what we will remember,…

So, tomorrow we have a host family day and this is the end of our Asian tour in Taiwan.

This was an awesome tour full of experience!!!

- by Andy Nijssen, Belgium