Ting Kuots'un, an environmental engineer at the State University of New York in the U.S., remembers catching the 5: 10 Taiwan Sugar Co. train in the morning to go to the Huwei high school and returning home by the 7: 30 train in the evening.
「為了念書，每天早上趕搭五點十分糖廠的小火車，到卅公里外的虎尾中學上課，晚上再搭七點半的火車回來」，今年回國參加國建會的美國紐約州立大學環境工程博士丁國村說。