Taiwan and Me: A Love Story: November 2012

Friday Night= "Do you want to go to Tainan tomorrow?"

Saturday Morning ( EARLY morning)= On a bus to Tainan.

So, living in Taichung, we are very conveniently located in the center of Taiwan. This means that if we decide to go on a day trip somewhere that we can totally make that happen. So Saturday morning me and my friends got on a bus to Tainan to take in the sights....and take in the sights we did. ( I also practiced my Chinese for real life cray cray situations)

9:45- We arrived in Tainan after a two hour bus ride and were about to walk to the train station to get some tourist information when all of the sudden my friend realized she forgot her camera on the bus. Me, being the only one in my group able to speak Chinese, then had the daunting task of trying to understand people on the phone. >< I asked a bus driver of the same company we used where we should go and he showed us a phone number that we could call. Well, I called the company and told them what happened and, thank Jesus, I finally realized that my Chinese has improved A TON! I was able to understand everything they asked me without any problem. :) Well, long story short, we had to wait for an hour for the bus we just barely got off of to get back to Tainan but we just used that time to get tourist info... so no biggie.

After we got my friend's camera back we then headed off to a famous area in Tainan named Anping. While in the cab to Tainan I was talking to my cab driver asking where we should go and explore and he gave many suggestions to me....in a VERY thick Taiwanese accent. Needless to say, I stopped trying to chat. While in Tainan we all walked through the 'Old Street' which had a bunch of shops and food. It was exciting. We all bought some shtuff from this leather store that hand-made everything and so that was fun. After this we ate lunch and then separated. Verena and Martin went to the beach for the day while Magalie and I traveled through the city. So I will talk about what we did in the city :P

We first visited the rest of Anping and saw some Temples. They were all really beautiful and really close to each other. We also had the sugariest strawberry drink ever, it was....wow. We then got on a bus for an hour to the actual city of Tainan and got off at Art Street. We both really liked this area and just walked around the streets and saw all of the different cool thangggsss. Next, we walked about 15 minutes to a huge temple. I mean it was beautiful. It was probably my favorite area of the day. (Pictures Below) After this temple we were sitting at the front steps decided where to go next and decided on going to this area where there were a bunch of temples right by each other. Well, after about 3 minutes of looking at the map and trying to remember what road we were on and what direction we should go.....we found out it was LITERALLY right across the street. Like, it was the building right in front of our faces. I think this speaks highly of both of our sense of direction. Those temples were also very beautiful and I love the smell of incense so so so so much so it was perfect.

After that we met up with Verena and Martin again (after I explained to their taxi driver over the phone where to drop them off) and all decided to go to the "Flower Garden Night Market". We walked for quite a while and then finally made it.

**If you do not like the thought of crowds... please...stop... reading...now. **

Literally guys, this night market was in a parking lot and there were ( I am estimating) at least 3 million people there. You literally couldn't move. If you wanted to walk through the steady line of people you just had to push and shove because grrrrrrl no one was going to stop for you. But good news was that it was a cool night market and I had something very good to eat. (Pictures Below)

We then returned.

As you can see, I had a lot of energy at the beginning of that post but now I am tired. I know I am bad at writing blogs but I try and that is all that matters. I will just put pictures on now. Also, I am going to link a video that my friends made on the campus of our school because, once again, I have been too lazy to make one of my own. Soooooo enjoy that! :)

Feng Chia University Tour w/ Verena and Magalie

TTYL dawgz.