{"id":333,"date":"2023-05-30T06:11:34","date_gmt":"2023-05-30T10:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/taiwan-summer-trip-2023\/?p=333"},"modified":"2023-05-30T06:11:34","modified_gmt":"2023-05-30T10:11:34","slug":"death-is-a-farmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/taiwan-summer-trip-2023\/2023\/05\/30\/death-is-a-farmer\/","title":{"rendered":"Death is a Farmer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>5\/30\/2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dear Diary: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today we visited the Sahara Desert. I severely underestimated the insane heat that would bombard me from all sides. Here is my recount of the day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Act 1 (<strong>50 calories<\/strong>):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Woke up this morning to a nice, cool room and headed downstairs to grab my daily two slices of bread and liquid. It is a hard day ahead in the mines, and I&#8217;m grateful that the company provides us bots with the proper nutrition to work tirelessly in the fields. Don&#8217;t worry, I savored each slice throughly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Act 2 (<strong>Chocolate or Vanilla<\/strong>) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m a chocolate man. Or am I a Vanilla Man? The eternal debate that almost rivals Lebron vs Jordan. A guaranteed way to immediately start a fight in New York City. One thing I do know however is that the Vanilla farm that we visited had some absolutely banging vanilla buns. Oh and we also learned about more about the solar panels\/water salination issues. But clearly the buns were more important. Vanilla Buns. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Act 3 (<strong>Death<\/strong>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Guangcai Wetland? More like Guangcai Deathland. When I stepped off the bus I immediately knew that my time was up. It was inevitable. All I could ask was for the father to forgive me for my sins. I listened in on the informative talk about the solar panels and sustainability as I watched as death slowly approach me from afar. I closed my eyes and basked in the unbearable heat. It was a good life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But just as he was about to take me, I was suddenly pulled back into the safe zone where I was handed lunch. Ah, but I can still see him watching me. Luckily he can&#8217;t enter past the line for I will live another day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Act 4 (<strong>Fans<\/strong>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As we arrived to the Wengfeng Seawater Supply Station, I nervously looked around for Death. Weirdly enough, I couldn&#8217;t see him in my Lambo, but as soon as I got off, it was apparent that I was not in the clear. As we learned about the Station and got a tour of the factory\/facilities, I clutched my anti-death fans and shook them (quite literally) for my life. What we learned was super cool, but I wish everything else was super cool instead (get it? cuz it was hot). As I tried my best to stave off what seemed like the inevitable, I managed to clutch it out like Jordan in Game 6 and made it back to the Ferrari. One more stop. Come at me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Act 5 (<strong>Shrimp Teriyaki<\/strong>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Weichen Energy Indoor Aquafarm. Try saying that 10 times really fast. We arrived and immediately was put into a room where we had a nice information\/conversation\/question session with the owner. He had inherited that land from his stepfather. Notice how I&#8217;m not mentioning any of the details from before. This was because we had AC. I heard AC stands for &#8220;Another Chance&#8221; and it was what saved me from Death taking me away into the void. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Act 6 (<strong>Singing<\/strong>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We sang on the bus. Everybody had great voices. Harmony and sound. End Scene<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>-Thanks for listening to me diary. It was a fun day. Weirdly, I never realized the Sahara Desert was in Taiwan. You learn something new everyday am I right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>-fin-<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><br \/>-Jay Chung<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>5\/30\/2023 Dear Diary: Today we visited the Sahara Desert. I severely underestimated the insane heat that would bombard me from all sides. Here is my recount of the day. Act 1 (50 calories): Woke up this morning to a nice, cool room and headed downstairs to grab my daily two slices of bread and liquid. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/taiwan-summer-trip-2023\/2023\/05\/30\/death-is-a-farmer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Death is a Farmer&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9708,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-log"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/taiwan-summer-trip-2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/taiwan-summer-trip-2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/taiwan-summer-trip-2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/taiwan-summer-trip-2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9708"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/taiwan-summer-trip-2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/taiwan-summer-trip-2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":339,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/taiwan-summer-trip-2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions\/339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/taiwan-summer-trip-2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/taiwan-summer-trip-2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/taiwan-summer-trip-2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}