Taiwanese Exchange Students Learn TCC

From: Dublin News, Taiwanese Take To T’ai Chi, Staff Writer Jason Montiel. Section Heading: Exercising Body and Mind.

Synopsis: This news article is about Taiwanese exchange students who visit with senior citizens taking TCC instruction in a class held at the Dublin Senior Center. The teacher is Virginia Lee Cepeda of Dublin, CA who was accredited in 1996. Her recommending teacher was Pat Huseby of Danville, CA

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Dublin – They’ve seen Sacramento, visited giant redwood trees and even tasted Americanized Chinese food. But A group of 11 Taiwanese teens visiting the Bay Area got a real education Thursday when they tried the Asian art of T’ai Chi Chih with senior citizens at the Dublin Senior Center. The students followed teacher Virginia Cepeda a she led a dozen seniors through a half hour of the body motions designed to balance the yin and the yang, or the body’s internal energy forces.

I have seen people doing T’ai Chi in the park at home, but I have never tried it,” said 18 year-old Yan Hsiang Yu, a Taipei resident … Kuo Yi-Chun, 17, of Taipei, said she may take up T’ai Chi when she returns to Taiwan. She was also impressed with life in the Bay Area.

The Chinese-speaking students — ages 17 to 19 – are wrapping up a three-week visit to California to study English. They attend intensive classes at the University of California, Berkeley. When not in class, students take field trips to learn about American life. The approximately 55 students in this program – which is run by Cultural Homestay International – are sharing the homes of families in Pleasanton, Dublin, Fremont, Pittsburg and Concord. “They are here to learn about Americans.” Said Taffeta Burr-Lewis, 23, of Dublin, who is helping to coordinate the stay of the students.