So this has become a monthly blog I guess...or whenever I feel like writing in it. I don't feel like writing in it now but I feel like I should. It will be short. Meh. It has been fun lately here. I have done a lot of stuff....starting a new semester, partying it up at KTV, having a Christmas party, going on a trip yesterday so fish could eat my feet.... it has been good. My Chinese is improving quite rapidly which is great because my English is slowly dying and I won't be able to speak it soon. I want to show pictures now and then I will explain what I have been doing for a month.
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| Taichung City Park |
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| IDK how to flip dis. |
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| Making Hakka Style Tea |
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| CHEESE |
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| Horrible Salty Licorice my friends parents brought from Finland |
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| Taichung Park/Orange Hotel |
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| His nose(?) is good luck |
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| Help yourself Thai Food...so good. |
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| About 2.50 Amurrican Dollars |
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| Old Taichung Airport |
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| Model in Airport |
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| Sexy Person |
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| My homedog |
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| Christmas party |
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| Christmas Tree at my college |
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| Studying on the roof.....in December....shirtless. |
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| My school is over there. |
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| bamf bus driver |
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| Basically a bunch of Piranhas eating my feet |
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| Some classmates and I went on a trip to GuGuan Hot Springs |
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| Ming Li's Birthday Party at KTV |
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| Party at my teachers house |
So I am totes only going to talk about where I went yesterday because I can still remember it like it was yesterday.
Me and 3 other classmates of mine [Sanchir (Mongolia), Mari (Japan), Theresia (Indonesia)] decided that we were going to go to a place called Guguan Hot Springs located within the mountains of Taichung to have some fish eat our feet.
**Itinerary is as follows**
Sunday 6:45 a.m: I woke up and packed literally nothing for a day of traveling because I am literally the best at planning.
7:45: We all met up at McDonald's and boarded a bus that we would need to take to the very last stop... this would take 1 hour and 10 minutes... we were successful.
8:55: While getting off the bus I decided that I could not miss the opportunity to take a picture with the coolest bus driver ever.... picture located above.
9:02: We found the next bus stop where we needed to board another bus (you thought we had already arrived? ha!) We quickly found out that the bus that we needed to get on literally left two minutes ago and that the next one was in 48 minutes.... we died inside.
9:50: After watching the bus driver read a newspaper and eat his breakfast within the bus for about 15 minutes he finally drove 10 feet and let us board. We were starting our next trek... this time 2 and a half hours. The sunlight was blinding our eyes from within the bus.
12:20ish: We were the last to leave the bus, there were no other cars. Silence invaded my ears. I then realized just how loud living in the city is. I decided to become a poet.
12:40: Some fish were eating our feet. However, the flesh eating monsters must have had a taste for old, ripened flesh because they were attacking the older men without mercy.
1:10 (these are approximate times guys, deal with it): We got some popsicles (I chose Passion Fruit flavor) and proceeded to walk the grounds of the Hot Springs. I then knew at that point that I was going to teach all of you how to pronounce popsicle in Chinese.... bing bong.
1:45: After asking the Information desk about the map we attained they told us that there was literally nothing else where we were located and that to get to the quote-unquote baller stuff, that we would have to drive for about 5 hours--seeing as though the main road was being repaired from flood damage. We once again died inside.
1:47: We were hungry and parched... lunch was the best option.
1:57 (I realized my timing was off so....): After a 10 minute lunch since I don't have a sense of time, we began to walk towards the hiking trail we saw earlier in the day since, literally, there was nothing else.
2:20-3:45: Death by hiking
4:05: Shaking legs mixed with trying to stand still while using the bathroom is not a great combination. Sorry janitor.
4:20: We boarded the bus back to the other bus stop. We slept.
9:00: After much waiting and sitting and sleeping we made it back to Feng Chia University.
9:15: I bought a Christmas present... it was embarrassing. (Just trust me on this)
9:30: Started studying for my test that was the next day.
12:30: Slept.
This was my day and it was extremely fun :) I love Taiwan with a passion and Utah can suck it.
Talk to you in, let's just assume, a month.
Seacrest, OUT!
