On his one previous visit in the winter of 1958, accompanied by his mother, Taipei always seemed grayish and wet as it was raining most of the time. A child prodigy with a phenomenal memory, Joppert never forgot the rainy month he spent here.
第一次是在一九五八年，當時被稱作「巴西神童」的他和母親到台北時正是隆冬，下著濛濛細雨，氣候又濕又冷，他足足待了一個月，四十年來記憶中的台北就是充滿了詩情的陰雨天，典型受東北季風影響的台北冬天。