School!!!

Okay, so last time, i wrote that i was going to join base-ball or swimming but there was a change in the schedual..um so base-ball was an all boy team, so i was so going to join, but i learned that they are the ebst in all of Taipei, which is huge.. so i decided that i should encourage the team instead of making them loose...haha so i went for swimming, but then there wasnt really a team, cause there arent alot of poeple, so i decided to do something Taiwanese...so i took..MARTIAL ARTS!! WHOOOOOOO so watch out people! when i come back to Canada i will kcik you butts! Im pretty excited to exercise that power! haha and now i have swimming classes everyday!! im so pumped! this is going to be the best school year ever! haha also im gonna have some cooking class and alot alot of mandarin classe.. so im pretty pumped!!!! great year! and my classmates are so cute, there so nice, like trying to explain to me whats gonig on even if they cant realyl speak english... haha so cute... also my teacher wants them to practise english so starting from Monday, there pen pallling me.. so there all writing me letters and i have to answer to alll of them.. and were 42 in the class... every monday.. holly crap...lol its going to take so long.. but im so excited!!!
Love,
Brianne
p.s (good first day at school guys!! starting soooonnnnn!)

First day of school..

Wellhello everyone! Today was indeed my first day of Taiwan school.. wow was it different.. so first we get there at like 7:20 (had to wake up at 6:00 omg ) haha and there was an assembly in the morning.. so i was like mm ok, there might be about 1000 students.. oh boy was i wrong...2000 students.. i was so shocked! haha So there they were, the highschool is didvied in 3 (gr.1=10, gr.2=11, gr.3=12 grade) then there seperated in classes, so like classe 106 (gr.1 class 6) So i got placed in gr.10 because gr.11 and gr/12 study alot alot because they prepare for there entrance exam for university.. so thats why i got placed in gr.10 because they have alot more fun! haha so its weird being in the a class and ppl begin jean-michels age.. so werid haha but it was cool.. anywasy, so these clases are standing on the lawn, hands behing their backs and cannot move, cause theres a soldier yelling at them in chinese so i didnt get the orders.. but really scary haha so i wasnt aware that i was gonig to present myself in front of everyone! it was really cool.. like the whole school listennign to me but im used to it, i mean speaking ti front of huge crowdshaha.. there aer 2 other exchange students, who are erally nice too but not in my class, in my school. So after that assembly i went to my class and they dont have enough money to hire janators, so we haev to clean up ourselves.. all morning we cleaned the school (like summer clean up) and it was kinda hard to make friends because they cant speak english cause there jsut learning english, but it was still fun.. i met a couple of new ppl.. like everyone was waving in teh hallway at me cause im Canadian hha .. but this school, Huajiang, is really great, they make sur i feel welcomed all year.. like until i learn chinese well they made a special schedual for us exchange students , were going out alot to see museams, i have alot of art classes and gym so its sweett!!! hahah its gonna be so much fun! like its so differnt school.. i had one engish class today and its so funy cause there liearning how to introduce themselves haha butthere probably laughing at me in my learning chinese haha .. but its funy and great.. like they have a school shop! soo cool and NAP TIME!! cause school is from 7:30 to 5:00 so at lunch we have half an hour nap time.. oh soo needed, but becayse i am an exchaneg studetnt, they have to do tests every morning from 7:30 to 8:00 so i only have to start school at 8 (yea!) and finish a 4 (wooohooo) so its really cool! I can only join one club, which sucks cause i wasnted to do everything so i have the choice between swimming, base-ball and others but im only interested in those i guess...give comments on which one you trhink i should choose! hhaha
hopw shcool is fun for you tooo!!
bye!
BRI

Old Street!

Hello again!!
Well today i went browsing at this place called Old Street, very nice, which was is Keelung (or something like that)... i took the train with Sean, my brother, and his two friends, whom are super nice. It was a long train ride then bus ride! it took us about 2 hours.. but i went by fast haha .. the bus ride to the Old street was scary haha cause its in the mountains and the bus drivers are crazy, like passing cars in the middle of the mountani on this very zig-zaggy road.. so scary hahah btu surprisingly i did survive! SO we started browsing and it was so nice, like shops and shops and shops of stuff... so great.. we then ate lunch.. it was good even if im unaware of what i ate.. haha then we ate this Cold beans.. like so gross... but i ate it any wasy not to be rude! lol oh i bought a post-card becaue theres this little girl that is sick and wants to collect the most post-cards so i thought it be cool if she got one from Taiwan!! lol so if you guys want her adress or something ask me cause that be cool if you guys sent some too! So we headed back to Taipei cause Sean needed to pick something up for Jen, and then we went to eat some ice cream..ok its not ice cream.. its ICE haha .. like i dont know what it is, but it is based of ice, and flavoured.. i took chocolate.. mm so good way betetr than ice cream! then we headed back home in train.. so fun! i love the train! hah it was really fun today! i had a great timee, since its MY LAST DAY OF SUMMER VACATION!!! NOOOOOOOO!! i start school tomorrow, well i get my uniform (which makes me look so sophisticated.. not slutty (no offence to our algonquin people but if we compare our uniform to theires, it looks like were going to a night club or something..aka the skirts haha ) anyways im really excited yet nervous! So ill write all about it tomorroww!!!!!
bye!
BRI

Shopping Paradise!

Hello everyone!!
Alright, if you like shopping, you better come to Taiwan!! Its incredible!! So many shops, really good condition of the clothes.. and SO CHEAP!Okay, so i started shopping at around 3, at this market with Jenny, my new friend.. she and her friend Becky are the best... my new best-friends!!, And there are so many shops here, like miles and miles.. there are no spaces between them and no doors, its and outdoors market, imagine like nortgate mall and multply it by 1000 thats how many shops trhere are! there really small but nice! i love the clothes here.. the only problem is everyone is so tiny, so they sell like one size, but sometimes you can find biger clothes haha ... also , there are no changing rooms in the stores (only some, rare ones) so you can just hope the clothes fits you or makes you look decent ahah ... if not , its so cheap it can be a gift! lol The t-shirt there are about 3-4 dollars canadian.. good condition... shorts(really nice ones that would be like 30-40 dollars in canada, 8$ (canadian here) WOW!!!! okay i bought thsi hoodie, its beautiful, like AMAZING! so nice, and it would be at LEAST 60dollars in Canada, at least adn here its around 7-8 friggen dollars! i was so amazed! man im going to byu everyone clothes! haha and so bought alot of clothes but didnt spend much! haha i love it HERE! then we went to the night market ,which is more clothes and little stands wit hstands of food everywhere!! mmmm sooo goood! we then visited the Temple, like the Boudha religion.. oh so beauiful! they pray so muc hand its so nice in there.. i oculdnt take pics though... lol then we went to eat, randomly in the nigth market.. okay i ate some gross stuff but it was good haha i ate chicken heart... omg haha .. and dark blood (i have no clue what that is..) and guts omg it sound so gross but it aint that bad!! haha ANywaysm my day was so much fun and im really looking froward to hanging out with Becky and Jenny again!! To egt there i took the train ALL ALONE! and found the metro station alone too.. iom so proud of myself!! hah and also, i went on a motorcylce today, soo fun! i love it!!!!
BYE!
BRi

Inbound Meeting

Well hello! Today was my inbound meeting (that is what every exchange student from an other country in taiwan aer called) and it was great!! Very early but awesome! We are so many from around the world, more than 40 i would say..7 from Canada and 2 of them are french so i got to practise my french so i wont loose it.. thank god haha everyone is so nice.. we got to introduce ourselves and ive made alot of new friends (alot frmo france! haha) ive found out that theer are 2 other girls that are gonig to my highschool which is pretty awesome! and there supper nice also! So im really excited to start to go to aschool... also, i start my mandarin classes next monday, and thursday.. fom 2pm to 5pm (so i get to ditch shcool for some more school! whoo what a rebel! hah)
Im ognig shopping tuesday and wednesday! so i will write about all the money i spent on gift to you...i mean to myself haha .. after!
BYE!
MISS YOU!
BRI

ZOO!

Hello! Today I went to the ZOO! To get there, i met ANgela and her sister on the train (i met them because its my host moms friends daughter) and we then to the metro! If you have ever taken it in TO, well taiwan is way better! VERY clean and it has prtoective doors on the side of the rails so no one falls in.. its way cool! We met Shawn, Angelas friend and Brocco (they are the funniest guy ever!) Shawn is very good in english and Brocco i pretty good himself! We then met Jocelyn at the Zoo.. They are all about 1 year older than me, they are gonig into university...its so weird how they admit them here, they explained how you have to write a test,after highschool and your results class you in different universities, so the higher you score, the better the university you go to i guess... At the zoo, It was so hot and it rained that day, but it was still fun! I got to see so many animals, kinda sad cause they looked so bored in their cage! But we spent about 3 hours there, and then we went otu for lunch...the bus ride was really fun, crazy!!! they drive so fast and stop really abruptly, its kinda scary! Lunchwas really good! Everyone was sooo nice! trying to explain to me what i was eating haha , and i really liked hanging out with them.. after that me, angela and hersister went to this arcade place.. okay, its a movie theatre BUILDING! You buy your ticket, and floor one is this movie, floor 2 is thise one.. so sweet.. but we didnt watch a movie, we went t play indoor base ball!! its a batiing cage, indoors lol it was really fun!! Then i went back home on thetrain with them, and went grovery schoopping with my family! That was my day!!Im really glad to get to meet new ppl all the time, because they are so nice they take me to places! Next time, Angela said shes going to take me to KTV, thats their big outting! they always go there, its this karaoke bar (but you dont have to be 18 to get in, legal drinkign age there is 18) and everyone goes there in taiwan! so im pretty pumped... well tomorrow is my first inbound meeting, so will get to meet all the other exchnage students here in taiwan, the monday im oging shopping with my host sister (she is presently in sweden), well her friend!! I want to buy clothes here, its so nice!!!
Well bye!
Bri

School visit and such

Hello!! Today was a really fun day! I went to visit my school. and guess what, Its under RENOVATIONS!!! I Cant escape it!! i though i would leave the construction and detours behind for a year, leaving algonquin, but NOOO! Huajiang highschool is being renovated...i started to laugh haha Well its really really nice, other wise, very open and its like an outdoor school, like you walk on balconies to get to you next class.. really amazing! lol Theres a soccer field (WOOHOO!) and track and basket-ball aslo!! i get to take the train and bus (and i took it today but forgot how to get there...i cant really read the stops haha) After that me and sean went walking around and we went to the cd store, and its soo cheap! if you want me to buy you awsome cd.s for like nothing, tell me! the Avril Lavinge CD is about 9 dollars here, or cheaper! then we went to the arcade, yes a real arcade, and amazing one, and we went in this photo booth and omg, its not nothinglike Canada! its HIGHTECH!!! Okay, so you go in, choose your back round, or get the alternate one (changes after every pciture) go on the platform and start to take pictures, it takes 8, the platform changes places( goes up and down with you on it) ..koay sso i though it would be done after that.. oh no!, you get to choose 4 of the 8, then decorate them, add back round, drawings, writngs designs..amazing.. haha all yourself on this touch screen... boy was i impressed haha .. then we went to the bookstore and i found a english book! wooho and i bought a self-taught learning chinese characters...yea.. and a speaking one too.. i know an other word! lol then we came back home, and i we ate mcdonalds! hahah i was so surprised! lol... it actually tastes pretty much the same then Canada.. lol but im pretty tired, so tmr i will be going to the zoo at like 9am so i better go to bed early haha ,
bye!

Beautifull island

Well yesterday, thursday, was an amazing day! At 9am me and my second host family, (my next host dad, mom, brother and cousin) went to visit the island! We started off at Fort San Domingo, this is a fort that was passed on through many different eras, such as Spanish, French, English, etc.. It was so pretty, (pics on FACEBOOK!!) and i learned so much about hteir history (so myabe i wont fail history class!!haha) Then we went to get some bubble milktea ummms ooooo great!!! if you ever drank bulble tea in canada, you have never tasted it! haha even the tapioca pearls are ebtetr here! After that we went to look at the ocean, wow it was so great!!! We then went to see the Areo mills or whatever lol its were my second dad kinda works, he fixes them sometimes... it was so nice, like the view and everything was amazinggggg!!! We went for lunch after that and i ate with chopsticks!!! didnt make a mess!! woohoooo!!! it was erally good, i ate so much, like every other meal here!it was kinda weird though ,there was baby octupuses that were so adorable lol! by the tiem i came around to them, there were no more on the plate.. i dont nkow id i was sad or releived hah but i vowed to try every food possiblee here! We then went to mountaisn and the view was breathtakin.. i didnt knwo where we were gonig so i started to feel my ears pop for no reason, so iturned to the window and i saw the valleys and it was soooo great! We stopped alot to take pictures! but then it started to rain alot so we had to go back homee!!! Im finally used to the time change, last night i slept for 12 hours straight, thank gooood!! Today im ognig to see my school, if it doesnt rain, and im gong to the zoo tomorrw! lots of pictures will be comming! hahah
In taiwan, its raelly nice in the morning but itssss soo hot and humid.. it was about 32 degrees and no clouds, but its so hot that theyre was a thundaer storm in the after nooon!!
Wel i miss you all , havnig a blast here though ,!!
bye!

Hello again!

Well, today was a great day!! (its wednesday!) It rained alot in the early after noon, big huge thunder! it was pretty scary actually...but then my family and I went shopping in this famous streeet in Taiwan and it was so beautiful, full of statues and such.. it was great! we then went to eat super at my fathers friends house and they were so awesome! they own a little shop to make clothes and now i know how oru clothes are made!! they were making mens clothe for USA! I got to drink tea, that was amazing, and made new friends! She is a year older then me! TOmorrow i will be going around taiwan with my next host family, then saturday i am going to the Taipei Zoo, with my new friend that i made tonight! I will have details for sure of teh zoo and lots of pics on facebook, some are already up!! bye!

Concert

Hello everyone!, well its 10 am right now, and i actually slept pretty much all last night!! I am finally getting used the time change!!YOOHOO! Well last ngiht, i went to see Sean, my brother, perform, in a concert band..there were great! they played mission impossible and i was so impressed! I would honestly pay lots of money to go see them again! Well funy story, after the show, we were waiting for my dad to come back from a little walk, and sean friend, who is a girl, started waving at me and saying things really loud and she sounded really excited so i was excited cause i want to meet alot of new people so i asked sean what she said and he was like oh your are veryveryvery famous in our concert band! i guess causei m from Canada haha! Thepeople here are so nice, even if i dont know them,we went to eat some food last night, which was good, im getting betetr with the chopsticks! haha and the peopel at the restaurant were so friendly! I am really excited to start school, monday and tueday i have to go to school because its an activity day for the new students, because my host parents work during the day and sean is very busy, so i often have time to go on the computer and such, which maked me miss everyone! but i know as soon as school starts, which will be impossible to understand, but i acutally know a couple sentences now in chinese!, i will love it more here!
Miss you all!
Love,
Brianne

MISTAKE!

In my other blog i wrote the appartement is not beautiful! i ment it is beautiful!! it is very hard to adjust to this key board! sorry i LOVE their house!

more of taiwan!

hello everyone! how is everyone! please send me e-mails of how you guys are so i know whta gonig on! haha
Well taiwan is great, its really hard to adjust because of the time change,so iam verytired and moody haha but its fun anyways! Im starting school in about 9 days and i get to meet all the other exchnage students on saturday! I just ate a taiwanese burger which was amazing, 100X time better than canadian haha I went to my host brother Seans highschool yesterday, and i had a blast! Hes in a concert band and they are amazing, youd think they are professional! Tonight is there concert night and iam very excited to go see them! Yesterday i drank some milk tea, with tapica pearls whichwas really good but it said with FROGG EGGS! and the pearls were very hard in the middle, so i was very scared! I erally thought it was frogg eggs!!! but them my host brother said no no! there not real eggs!! thank go for him! haha My family is very very nice and i love their appartement, its not beautiful, and my next family is loev theire appartement too! andthey are very very nice also! I will have two younger brothers! I love the style of clothes here, it is so nice! they have japanese trends adn it is so cool!!
Well i will talk to you guys soon!
love,
brianne

In taiwan

Hey everyone,
well this is much simpler that an e-mail! haha My flight was amazing, i flew 5 hours to LA wich was very long but my 13 hour flight to Taipei was amazing, personal tvMiss you all!
bye,
Brianne

Before the trip!

Hey everyone! So this is my blogspot and make sure to check it once in a while to have alllll the juicy details of my exchange in Taiwan!!

I will miss you all very much and i LOVE all of you!