NCUE Overseas Chinese Student Association (OCSA) performed a stage play "Fragments" on campus. It tells the story of an old lady's school years abroad in Taiwan when she was young. She tried to put together the fragments of memory during the conversation with her granddaughter and regain a valuable picture of her youth. The plot is set in the COVID-19 epidemic, and delicately outlines the feelings, affection, campus life, and the joys and sorrows of foreign students in Taiwan; the integration of different performance forms in the play impressed the audience.
 
OCSA Organizes the Week of the International Student and a stage play every year. In addition to promoting the understanding of their cultures, it is expected to make use of the multicultural advantages of overseas students to contribute to the internationalization of NCUE and to establish a closer connection and centripetal force among its members. It usually goes through three or four months of preparation and rehearsal before the performance. NCUE Vice President Ching-ran Chang, International Office Dean Ling-yu Wen, and the heads Hsiu-hui Chang and Chi-tai Shen of the International Office were present to watch the play.
 
"Fragment" begins with a dialogue between a grandparent and her granddaughter.  The granddaughter's diary that she always brings along arouses the granddaughter's curiosity. The diary is a journal that records her feelings when she was studying in Taiwan. She looked at the plane ticket stubs hidden in the pages of the diary and falls into the memory of the past.
 
The main characters of the play are the grandmother in college, her two close friends, and a male schoolmate who pursues her. One day the boy invited her to attend a concert with the two close friends. One of the two friends felt extremely ill after the event because she contracted COVID-19 and was rushed to the hospital, and the rest of the three had to be isolated at home. The boy's confession scene expected to be staged on that day did not happen. The other close friend of the grandmother ascribed the incident to the male schoolmate. The friendship between the boy and the three girls broke up. It was not until everyone was discharged from the hospital or the isolation was lifted that the boy and the girls reconciled after the girl who had blamed the boy was urged by her friends to apologize to the boy.
 
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and home isolation and unable to return home for the New Year, the grandmother at that time could only express through international phone calls to her parents how much she missed them and wished to go home; for the daughter who had never suffered but studied far away from home and faced the pandemic, her mother was too worried and heartbroken to eat. Both of them burst into tears on the ends of the line, which was moving.
 
"Fragment" reflects the innocent love of college students, the friendship of schoolgirls, the affection between a mother and her daughter, the colorful life on campus, and the bitterness of studying abroad. The performances were very detailed because the story is so real to the students, making the audience emotionally engage with the play. The elements such as singing, dancing, and fluorescent sticks were incorporated into the whole play, showing the versatile side of the students. At the curtain call, the foreign students who are about to graduate this summer were invited to come up on stage to sing together with the performers and those working behind the scene. That was a genuinely touching scene.
 
OCSA also held a poster exhibition and general education seminars on "The World Is So Big, I Want to Go Take a Look" during the Week of the International Student to introduce their home countries’ features, social conditions, natural landscapes, tourist attractions, traditional food, festivals, etc., promoting the understanding and recognition of international cultures, which attracted many NCUE teachers and students to participate.