and this is Hiwaot

introduce yourself

Hello I'm Hiwaot

and I'm one of Iris' subscribers

came to Taiwan with her help

this is my 1st subscriber meeting

actually I met one accidentally

but this is a planned subscriber meeting

and she currently teaches in Zhongli

and she's from Toronto

and we are watching dragon boat race

whoop whoop

first time for the both of us

first time super excited

nice weather

yea the weather is incredible

and how do you feel about

I guess first time seeing dragon boat

Yea I'm excited

I mean it's a lot more chill than I expected

I thought it'd be a lot faster

yea yea it's kind of mesmerizing

the drum

Keep it up [Mandarin]

Hi

I don't think he was waving at me but

Hi

sorry

sorry do you guys

are you guys dragon boat racers?

yes

and um

I'm sorry

how can we help you?

so my friend here

she's wondering if she

could join next year?

next year

but we haven't started yet

For recruiting, we will start recruiting in Feburary

I was interested to see if you could just sign up and join

I see

How many people are there needed to be on a dragon boat?

22

oh 22

They have big boats and small boats

small boat probably 15

and big boat 22

everyday

so [practice] everyday for 3 months

that's how we run

that's why our schedule is set up for the university students

so it was really interesting to see

how different teams coming from different parts of the world

to Taiwan to race

There was

I think Turkish people?

I wasn't sure which flag that was

but there was definitely Filipino teams

go go go go go

I think they are in the 1st place

which country is that one? Taiwan? [Mandarin]

Excuse me

Do you know if

we could experience dragon boating

The experience program just passed

Oh no it's passed already

Yea there was an experience program

Oh I see

It's gone now

Was it last week?

yes last week

Hello

that's the mayor

that's the mayor of

that little guy?

yea it's the mayor of Taipei

the dragon boat passing the podium is [Mandarin]

Kang Chiao High School [Mandarin]