1) The document describes the author's experience moving from his home country to Taiwan to study mechanical engineering at NTU. 2) He struggled with the language and culture at first, feeling homesick and crying after his first difficult physics class. 3) However, he befriended a kind Taiwanese classmate who helped him adapt by teaching him Mandarin, bike riding, using chopsticks, and how to study. 4) They became close friends and the author encourages freshmen to make an effort to talk to foreigners instead of believing stereotypes, as college is the best time to have new experiences.

1. Lao Wai 101
基礎老外學
By: Pablo Echeverria 卡帝諾
黃彥程 huang yan cheng

2. In 2011 I came to Taiwan, full of dreams
and hopes.
2011年，我滿懷希望與理想來台

3. I left my friends behind
告別了我的朋友

6. My relatives
( only ones I like out of 37 cousins )
我的親戚
(我有37個表兄弟姊妹)

8. My mom, dad, and grandma
我的媽媽、爸爸和阿罵

10. And I left behind my dogs 
和我家小白和阿福 =(

12. I traveled 14,776 km to a country I didn’t
know the language
飛了14776公里來到一個語言不通的國家

14. • In my attempt to speak Chinese I made
silly mistakes like:
• 嘗試說中文時，鬧了不少笑話
• Instead of saying 一碗水餃多少錢? I said:
一晚睡覺多少錢?
• Instead of saying 我要一個雞排 I said: 我
要一個雞掰

15. •In 2012 I entered the Mechanical
Engineering Department of NTU.
•2012年，我進入台大機械系

16. • I went to my first class: 普
通物理學 with professor
易富國. After 3 hours of
class I said to myself: Oh
shit! I won’t graduate…
• 第一堂課是易富國教授的普
通物理學，上了三小時後，
我心想：幹，我畢不了業
了…

17. • I cried that
night. I cried like
a little baby, but
in my heart I
knew I wouldn’t
give up.
• 那天晚上大哭一場，
但是我告訴自己不
可以放棄

18. • I wanted to make friends, but
unfortunately they were all scared to
talk to me. It was funny, because I
was more scared of talking to them.
• 我想交朋友，但是他們都不太敢跟我說
話。有趣的是，我其實更怕跟他們說話

19. It took me a while to understand why
Taiwanese don’t talk to foreigners that
much.
過了好一陣子我才搞懂為什麼台灣同學不
太敢跟老外說話

20. Foreigner Stereotypes
老外接觸指南 -- 刻板印想篇

21. #1 Always partying or plan on partying
tonight
要不是在開趴，就是在計畫今晚的趴

22. #2 They don‘t want to talk to us
because they think they are superior
他們自我感覺良好

23. #3 They only talk to cool, westernize
ABC because we are lame
他們只願意跟很潮的溫拿說話

24. #4 they are rich
他們錢多多

25. #5 they only talk to good English speaker
他們只和英文神人說話

26. That’s not true! Well… At least for most
foreigners…
老天！那絕不是真的！好吧…至少99%不
是真的

27. I always sat by myself at 活大 and nobody
wanted to talk to me 
我常自己坐在活大，沒有人願意跟我說話
=(

28. Until one day, a nice Taiwanese guy (who
later became my best friend), approached
to me in one class…
直到有一天，有個台灣同學(後來成為我最
好的朋友)開始跟我說話

29. Huang Yan Cheng
黃彥程
帥哥? 他的FB: pie31415926535898@yahoo.com.tw

30. He taught me many things:
他教我許多東西

31. He taught me how
to ride a bike!
他教我騎腳踏車

32. How to use 筷子
用筷子

33. He helped me
improve my
Chinese
讓我的中文進步

34. How to do
Calculus and
Physics!
算微積分和物理

35. How to stop crying and feeling pity. He
inspired me to keep trying my best,
regardless of the fact that I had no idea
what was going in class…
教我別自怨自艾，即使我完全聽不懂教授
們在教什麼，他激勵我繼續努力

36. And I taught him many things:
我也教他不少東西

37. How to improve
his English
讓他英文進步

38. How to always be positive and happy no matter how
stressful are your classes.
教他在課業壓力下維持正向思考

39. How to flirt with Foreign
girls…
如何把外國妹…

41. Although…
雖然…

43. It wasn’t always successful…
不保證成功…

45. We are now really good friends. We are so
good friends that we now have a
bromance.
我們是非常好的朋友，好到有點像基友

46. So no matter what Freshmen
所以各位新鮮人

47. Whether a girl like this approaches you to
talk... (Yes she is Mechanical Engineering
Student and my best friend)
如果有個長這樣的女生想跟你說話 (她是台
大機械系和我最好的朋友)

49. Or a guy like this approaches you to talk…
或長這樣的男生想跟你說話

51. Don’t be afraid and we won’t be afraid
either.
別怕跟我們說話
A small secret: We wish we could be as
good as you studying…
一個小秘密：我們很羨慕你們很會讀書

52. A free piece of advice
另外一點小建議

53. College life is the best part of your life. This
is because, College is when you get the
opportunity to create your own adventure.
大學是人生中最美好的時光，希望你們把
握機會嘗試不同的事物

57. It’s the opportunity to make new friends, or
in my case, MY TAIWAN FAMILY

62. 感謝你們!
歡迎進入
台大