Taiwan and Me: A Love Story

Thurr was snow in Taiwan at the end of April! It was def just a bunch of blossoms (super gay, I know) but it was the closest thing I have seen to snow for the last year. Me and three other friends/classmates of mine went for a day trip to Miaoli to see us some blossoms falling offa dem trees. It was a pretty fun day trip and also a cold one :)

After taking the train to the Miaoli station we packed into a taxi for a ten minute ride to the area where that day might I add they started having celebrations. So that was luck. Also, it was a Sunday...which in Utah that is the perfect day to go out and explore since no one goes anywhere but in Taiwan it is opposite and actually Sunday is the day when everyone is out and about...... soooooo.....

But ya, basically, we just walked up and down the mountain and saw a bunch of scenery... it is vurry pretty and I shall be going back to Miaoli in a few weeks with my parents (although I am not positive where we are going to in relation to this spot.....)

Matching shoes!

Stairs of death

He is a man tree.

What else has been happening?

Hmmm, well in my 503 class we took one day and made a bunch of food from our country. America having no culture it was very interesting to try and decide what to make (especially since I have the cooking skills of a child). I decided on Monte Cristo sandwiches which turned out terrible BUT I got to eat everyone elses food...including: Mongolian Noodle dish, Indonesian Fried Chicken, Japanese egg dish and seaweed rich thing which I can't remember the name right now, French potato stuff, Vietnamese Spring Rolls, American Banana boat (made from Papaya)..... so needless to say it was a pretty good class that day.

Mongolian nom noms

Murrican nom noms

Stuff I can't read.

French Noms.

Indonesian Nomz.

All of us taking pictures of the food.

Mine is the terrible one.

It was also my birthday. I turned 21. Yay for me. My classmates gave meh a cake and I wished that I would quickly blow the candle out so that everyone would stop looking at me. I hate attention. I also ate some Xiao Longbao's for my birthday so that was a pretty awesome thang.

Love dis food.

There have been other birthday's in our class and eating cake is literally all that we do in our class anymore.

Theresia's Birthday (technically yesterday)

Asuka's Birthday

I have been hanging out with my friend Colin more also and he took me to yummy Vietnamese and Thai restaurants... they be good.

Pho

Thai noms.

Also, last Friday there was an activity at my school and some international kids made groups and they all made food and sold it. So that day i ate a bunch of stuff also O_o Mongolian, Indonesian, Japanese, French, Taiwanese, etc. Very good, very good.

We are sick.

I am Vietnamese.

Erika

Food Festical--Oh, I spelled that right.

me being fat

I have also, obviously, been hanging out with Ben all the time also because he is still kewl and it would be of gr8 help if you guys could recommend something I could give my friends and teachers here that have helped me so much in the past 10 months. A present.....sick minds.

Well, here are pictures... and let's just say that I have mixed feelings about coming home in a month. On one hand I am super excited to see my family and friends but on the other hand I will miss everyone here. I will also miss the food/beverages here. But I will not miss the humidity. So basically, I don't know what my emotions are at this moment. Anyways, see you in three weeks mah parents and we shall circle dis island, we shall.

Once again, I did not spell check this or double check anything. K, bye.


me being sexy.

-xoxo Gossip Girl

Hey dudez,

It is raining outside and I have ample time to write in my blog :P so I thought I should probably do it.

So the other week we had a four day weekend since it was Tomb-Sweeping Festival (google it) and me and my classmate Theresia decided to go out and about.

One night we went to a department store over by the train station to check it out.... well we are poor(or just me, idk) so we abandoned that trip pretty fast and headed down the street to Yi Zhong Jie Night Market. It was funnnnnn. WE bought some clothes and mucho food. We ate fried chicken, a cup of corn, banana milk, and dim sum.... yummm, I know. The only annoying part of that night was that it was raining hard all day and night so there were puddles and I was wet and it was just mehhhh. But yes, still way fun.

Then that weekend we also decided that we wanted to go to a waterpark that is in Taichung! So we took the bus to the train station, took a train to the last stop, took a bus again and arrived to the park. It wasn't until that point that we learned the water park doesn't until May....so we went to the Amusement park right next to it instead. It was small but it was a fun day >< There was an awesome roller coaster that I went alone on since my friend was scared :P It was a good day out.

Now I shall talk about yesterday.

Yesterday, my friend Ben called me at 11 in the a.m. and asked if I wanted to go to a Flea Market at this American school in Taichung. I went and it was weird because that was the most American English that I had heard in about 8 months haha it was gross basically ;) But ya. After that we went to this other area and looked around...then went to this bakery to eat gooods. This was followed by eating dinner with two friends that I hadn't seen for months. It was extremely fun and it was good to see that my Chinese had improved so much because I saw them the end of last year and barely understood anything they were saying but now I was understanding like 95% sooooo YAAAAAAA!

BTW---Mother and Father----it was good that I saw this friend because he is a travel agent in Taiwan and he is going to help me plan some places to go that most foreigners do not know about >< yayayayay and give me names of restaurants to go to......PERFECT.

Boom. Pictures.