It's Friday!

It's a tradition to have our hair cut at home, once in a while. Yesterday was Pearl's turn.

I am beginning to enjoy being a travel/leisure reporter. It's really fun when it's well planned and when I get a cameraman that I like. Wednesday was great. We went out to Yingge and did some stories on the ceramics festival, the museum there and the Yingge/Sanxia area.

We usually get Saturdays off, but I usually choose to report anyway. My body's beat and my head is beating my mind in, so I'm going to sit this Saturday out. Oh my, it's past midnight AGAIN.

It's midnight and my party animal parents are testing the audio setup for tomorrow's party. They are crazy.

Here's the script for the festival story. My scripts are now both in English and Chinese, because we're putting Chinese subtitles on our show now, rather than the English (to the agony of our most loyal viewers). It's to get more viewers that are monitored by AC/Nielsen. So far, it seems to be working.

Yingge International Ceramics Festival

Lead in:
A museum in Taiwan’s ceramics center Yingge is holding a festival with sound as the theme. Formosa News reporter Michella Weng takes us to see how the museum combines the two.##

Opening stand-up:
The sound of ceramics is the theme of this year's Yingge International Ceramics Festival.
今年陶瓷嘉年華的主題是[陶與聲音]

On special display at the Taipei County ceramics museum right now are numerous objects related to sound.
在台北縣立陶瓷博物館的特展中
展出的作品都是與聲音有關的陶瓷

Some of them are made by professionals who have put great amounts of time and effort into their pieces, like the ones here that were the finalists in the Fourth Taipei Ceramics Awards. Every artist was asked to create works with "sound" as the underlying theme.
藝術家們花了很多時間與心血
像這一些入圍第四屆台北陶藝主題設計獎的作品
就是特別為了配合今年的主題所創作出來的

But hoping to increase the exposure of ceramics to people starting at a young age, the museum has also organized several activities to attract children, including a workshop on making wind chimes, pottery and kilns.
館方希望將陶藝向下扎根
讓民眾從小就接觸陶藝
特別安排了許多的節目
來吸引小朋友
包括風鈴製作 拉坏 還有做窯的課程

And to keep the grown-ups happy, a class on how to make ocarinas is available too.
館方同樣也照顧到年輕人的族群
敎敎他們怎麼做陶笛

There's something for everyone at the festival here, including guided tours in English. But make sure to come soon, because the festival fun will end on Sunday. For more information, you can visit our discussion forum.
爲了照顧到在台灣所有的民眾
館方也細心的安排了英文導覽
提醒您
要玩要趁早
活動只到二十三號
如果您需要更多的資訊
可以到民視英語新聞討論板查詢!

Michella Weng, Formosa TV, Yingge.
民視新聞 咼昇軍 翁郁容 鶯歌採訪報導