“Travel Zhudong Step-by-Step” - a stroll in the quaint town of Zhudong

"Many friends travel to Zhudong but are unfamiliar with fun things to do around the town,” says Peng Ya-fang (彭雅芳), an art teacher at Hsinchu’s Chudong Junior High School. To address this situation, students in Peng Ya-fang‘s art class put together an illustrative map of famous places of interest in Zhudong for distribution. When the students discovered that the one thousand copies of the map they distributed had been rapidly snapped up, they began to ponder if they could do anything else to augment the maps and “Travel Zhudong Step-by-Step” was born. 

Peng Ya-fang stressed that “Travel Zhudong Step-by-Step” is not merely a school magazine, but attempts to step beyond the school and break through traditional frameworks. In addition to introducing Zhudong to outsiders, students also get to know their own hometown through the process of producing the magazine, and this, in turn, facilitates the opportunity for deepening connections between older and youngster students, who are equipped with more common experiences to talk about during the winter and summer vacations.

Released in October each year, the first issue of “Travel Zhudong Step-by-Step” was published in 2014. The students are currently preparing this year’s issue and will use the summer and winter vacations to study different courses that are mainly outside the scope of the standard education system. Following this, students will discuss the theme, articles, photographs, and illustrations for this year’s issue and carry out a comprehensive study of Zhudong, promoting the wonders of Zhudong as they go.

“Travel Zhudong Step-by-Step” - a stroll in the quaint town of Zhudong

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《逐步東行》 走進樸實的竹東小鎮

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「很多朋友來竹東旅行，可是都不知道怎麼玩起。」新竹縣竹東國中美術班老師彭雅芳說，於是美術班學生用插圖的方式，畫了竹東有名的景點，做成地圖，放在各景點處讓遊客自行取閱，一千份地圖很快就被拿光了，大家開始想「除了地圖還可以做些什麼？」於是集結許多想說的話的《逐步東行》誕生了。

彭雅芳說，《逐步東行》不是校刊，它不侷限在學校，而是企圖走出學校，突破這個框架，不僅是讓外地人認識竹東，在這個過程中學生也在認識自己的家鄉，這個經驗也促成學長姐回來帶領學弟妹的機緣，也讓寒暑假多了不同的體驗。

二〇一四年創辦第一期，《逐步東行》在每年十月出刊，今年正籌備第四期中，利用寒暑假的時間會開設不同的課程，做許多在制式教育下較難接觸到的部分，接下來學生會討論主題，用文字、攝影、插畫來深度紀錄竹東，並在發行過程中傳遞竹東的美好。