Hello Everyone!
the last week has been so amazing!!Last sunday i went to TaiZhong with my family and we wentto this really famous Temple and I got to pray with them it was super interesting! THen we went to an amusement park and that was really really fun tooo!
On tuesday I celebrated my 7 months in Taiwan!!!!
Then on Wednesday all the inbounds students left for 3 days to go to Kenting!! (the southest and hottest place in Taiwan!! I got to wear shorts for 3 days (in MARCH!) and i also got to see the ocean and swim there also!!!)
Days 1: We leave from Taipei at 6:40 in the morning. Then we head the Kaoshiung *about 4h30 from Taipei*. We eat Lunch In TaiNan and then we arrive in Kaoshiung at about 2 oclock. We then take a ride in the MRT Station (they just build it because they will be holding the 2009 world games, thats all the sports that are not inclided in the Olympics.
After that we went to the City Hall and listenned to a presentation about Kaoshiung. After that we went on a boat ride at the Harbour!! It was really nice adn sooo fun! We then went to a night market to eat supper and it was fun because there were so many cool things to see adn really not expensive stuff!! When it was dark we went back to the LOVE RIVER (thats the name of the river) for a little boat ride around the river because its so beautiful with all the lights and stuff!! After that we went back to the Hotel and it was really fun!
Day 2: We leave for Kenting at 8am and arrive at like 10:30 at the place where we played PaintBall. After that we went ot eat lunch in Kenting and it was sooo nice!!there sooo many little shops to buy bathing suits and souvenirs!! it was really cool! After we went to the Hotel and we went to the beach for 3 hours! it was soo cool! the water was soo warm and we saw a sea turtle! it was soo funnnnn!Then we went for a BBQ outside! it was really nice and fun and we danced and it was really fun! After that we got free time and we spent the night at the nightmarket! It was sooo nicee! then we went back to our Hotel (which was super nice also!)
Day 3: We left at like 8:30 to go to the Marine Biology museum!IT was SOOO NICE!! Like it was soo well done! there was like 4-d movie which was amazing! then were was like a under water tunnel! where it was like fish swimming around you and it was sooo coool!! i got to see so many coool fishies! i had such a great time!! then we headed back to Taipei!
The trip was sooo fun!! And im going back with my school (and Susy and Arely ) next wednesday! IM so happy hahaha its gonna be soooo much funnnn!
Time is going by so fast! Im having such a great time!
Brianne!!
vendredi 21 mars 2008
mardi 11 mars 2008
Canadian cooking!
Hello!! So today was an amazing day!!
(Since the last time ive written, ive been great! haha just living a GREAT and AMAZING life in Taiwan)!!!
Since the new semester started, we have a cooking class and its really really fun!!!
So last week we made some Chinese food, but this week it was time to make Canadian food!! So i really didnt know what i could make becuase really there is NO ingredients that we use in Canada easy to find in Taiwan. WEll i went to Sogo sohpping mall (the only place in TAIWAN with ingredients of like other countries.. im serious i saw SOOO many foreigners there hahaha).
So while i was shopping i had to find what to make. (and thinking of the price also because imported stuff, it was all imported.. is really expensive haha) .. so i said hmm well i have real Canadian maple syrup so lets find pancakes..and guess what i not only found pancake mix..BUT FROM CANADA with the emballage in FRENCH and ENglish!! its been soooo long since i saw taht hahah i was like omg, its not crazy chinese characters.. omg!!hahaha then i was like hmm. what elese.. then i said what do i eat all the time in Canada? then i though Grilled CHeese!!! The cheese is SOO expensive here.. becuase theres NO cows anywhere .. so like its so crazy how much the cheese is here. But i still had enough to by to make grilled cheese hahaha Then i said hmmm i know its not canadian (i wanted to make poutine.. but too hard haha) so i was like spaghetti! hahaha
So today Me, Arely and Susy (with one of our teachers) cooked Pancakes with Maple Syrup, Grilled Cheese and Spaghetti!! haahah It was really really good! this is like the first time since 7 months that i eat something like that. THe food in Taiwan is SOOO different, like down to the bread (the bread is always sweet or something, i havent ate like bread not falvoured since the day i left Canada ahaha)
In a way its awsome that the food is so different becuase i get to experience a new culture and also i get to appreciate everything once i get back home! haha (i dont want to get back home haahaha)
So next week i am going to the Southest point in Taiwan!! its called Kenting and all the rotary students are going there for our trip!!! Its gonna be so awesome because kenting has beautiful beaches and we can swim in the ocean and its going to be great!! Im really looking forward to it!
Bye bye
Brianne
(Since the last time ive written, ive been great! haha just living a GREAT and AMAZING life in Taiwan)!!!
Since the new semester started, we have a cooking class and its really really fun!!!
So last week we made some Chinese food, but this week it was time to make Canadian food!! So i really didnt know what i could make becuase really there is NO ingredients that we use in Canada easy to find in Taiwan. WEll i went to Sogo sohpping mall (the only place in TAIWAN with ingredients of like other countries.. im serious i saw SOOO many foreigners there hahaha).
So while i was shopping i had to find what to make. (and thinking of the price also because imported stuff, it was all imported.. is really expensive haha) .. so i said hmm well i have real Canadian maple syrup so lets find pancakes..and guess what i not only found pancake mix..BUT FROM CANADA with the emballage in FRENCH and ENglish!! its been soooo long since i saw taht hahah i was like omg, its not crazy chinese characters.. omg!!hahaha then i was like hmm. what elese.. then i said what do i eat all the time in Canada? then i though Grilled CHeese!!! The cheese is SOO expensive here.. becuase theres NO cows anywhere .. so like its so crazy how much the cheese is here. But i still had enough to by to make grilled cheese hahaha Then i said hmmm i know its not canadian (i wanted to make poutine.. but too hard haha) so i was like spaghetti! hahaha
So today Me, Arely and Susy (with one of our teachers) cooked Pancakes with Maple Syrup, Grilled Cheese and Spaghetti!! haahah It was really really good! this is like the first time since 7 months that i eat something like that. THe food in Taiwan is SOOO different, like down to the bread (the bread is always sweet or something, i havent ate like bread not falvoured since the day i left Canada ahaha)
In a way its awsome that the food is so different becuase i get to experience a new culture and also i get to appreciate everything once i get back home! haha (i dont want to get back home haahaha)
So next week i am going to the Southest point in Taiwan!! its called Kenting and all the rotary students are going there for our trip!!! Its gonna be so awesome because kenting has beautiful beaches and we can swim in the ocean and its going to be great!! Im really looking forward to it!
Bye bye
Brianne
dimanche 2 mars 2008
Lots of new information!
So i havent wrote in a while cause i had absolutely NO time haha
So on Febuary 20th i went on a trip to Lugang with my host rotary club and it was super fun!!! I went to the middle taiwan with Sascha and we met 3 other exchange students from Mexico, Sweden and France! They live in the middle Taiwan. So we went to see the glass factory and a nutrition facotry also and it was really fun. We came back the 21st and that was the Lanter Festival. The Lantern festival is celebrated on the last day of Chinese new years *the 15th day* and its amazing. Unfortunetly i didnt see it because i was on the trip with my rotary club, but i got to see the Biggest Lantern festival of all last weekend, beccause my family is so awesome! haha Well in Tai-Nan (about 3hours from Taipei), they have a HUGE festival for the Lantern festival and its so big and amazing that they keep it for 2 weeks after the last day of Chinese new years, so this weekend, my family brought me to Kaoshiung (we have relative there) and then we went to Tai Nan.
Friday Feb.29 : We leave Taipei at like 6pm to get to kaoshiung at about 9:30. Then we went to eat dinner and it was really good, lots of seafood cause Kaoshiung is on the sea.
Saturday March 1st (omg, its march already!!) : We wake up super early to go to an Aboriginal Park. It was soo cool! I got to learn about Taiwan's culture and see a performance to ressembled the dances and tradition they use to do a long time ago! After that we went to see nice sceneries! I got to see soo many cool stuff like Pineapples fields, mango trees it was soo cool!! and it was SO HOT!! like maybe 30 degress cause south Taiwan is soo warm all the time haha. Afte thta we went to eat dinner at my uncles house in Pington (near Tainan). Then when it was dark we went to Tainan for the Lantern Festival. Okay. IT was BEAUTIFUL. THere were so many light and, it was amazing. THere were so many people. I think that that was the one thing you HAVE to see when you come to Taiwan. It shows so much of there culture. They have so much tradition and culture that im really amazed. Like after i saw that, i was really really happy and like i have a feeling that i finally understood the importance of their culture and that i was really blending in the chinese culture. I love my family, and i love the taiwanese culture! I couldnt be happier right now! So after that we went back and Kaoshiung and we went to a nice night market. Im really gonna miss those in Canada. There so awesome. Like there so many things you can buy and look at, lots of food, lots of people. its just a great atmosphere!.
Sunday, March 2nd: we woke up early again and we went to look at the sea. I always forget that Taiwan is an island because when im in Taipei, im in the middle of the city. So it was amazing. It was a really really beautiful day, and we were in the mountains with a view of the ocean. It was so amazing. We wentto have lunch in a little restaurant with an amazing view of the ocean, so i had lunch while looking at the amazing sea. then, when we were driving back down, i saw monkeys!!! YEA real monkeys not in cages!! haha IT was awesome! theres alot of monkeys that live there cause its so warm and so many fruits! So i got out of the car to take a picture, and then one big monkey started walking to wards me and i got scared so i started running back to the car (yea, im so stupid i didnt think animal:running: theyll run too haha) so it started running after me so i was screaming Open the door open the dorr and i Jumped in the car and closed the door super fast hahaha. Then i just opened the window to take pictures haha . then i gave the monkey a Mango! (from the car window of course haha) and it ate it and it was SOOOO cool. It was such and AMAZING day! like i saw monkeys! haha i loved it haha, So then when the day couldnt get any better, it totally did! So we wentto see the harbor, where theres like HUGE boats like the movies that come in from the ocean..it was awesome. Then we took a boat to go to a small fishing community, there was a litlte market place and it was so beautiful and cool! taking the boat was fun too cause it was soo big haha. After that aall the kids went to a nicemarket and it was really fun. I bought some souvenirs for a couple people, and i had alot of fun! after that we came back to taipei and im soooo tired ! haha So i figured out a way to show all my pictures without you getting facebook, so ill post up the links on here when i get a chance! :D!
Bye bye!
brianne
So on Febuary 20th i went on a trip to Lugang with my host rotary club and it was super fun!!! I went to the middle taiwan with Sascha and we met 3 other exchange students from Mexico, Sweden and France! They live in the middle Taiwan. So we went to see the glass factory and a nutrition facotry also and it was really fun. We came back the 21st and that was the Lanter Festival. The Lantern festival is celebrated on the last day of Chinese new years *the 15th day* and its amazing. Unfortunetly i didnt see it because i was on the trip with my rotary club, but i got to see the Biggest Lantern festival of all last weekend, beccause my family is so awesome! haha Well in Tai-Nan (about 3hours from Taipei), they have a HUGE festival for the Lantern festival and its so big and amazing that they keep it for 2 weeks after the last day of Chinese new years, so this weekend, my family brought me to Kaoshiung (we have relative there) and then we went to Tai Nan.
Friday Feb.29 : We leave Taipei at like 6pm to get to kaoshiung at about 9:30. Then we went to eat dinner and it was really good, lots of seafood cause Kaoshiung is on the sea.
Saturday March 1st (omg, its march already!!) : We wake up super early to go to an Aboriginal Park. It was soo cool! I got to learn about Taiwan's culture and see a performance to ressembled the dances and tradition they use to do a long time ago! After that we went to see nice sceneries! I got to see soo many cool stuff like Pineapples fields, mango trees it was soo cool!! and it was SO HOT!! like maybe 30 degress cause south Taiwan is soo warm all the time haha. Afte thta we went to eat dinner at my uncles house in Pington (near Tainan). Then when it was dark we went to Tainan for the Lantern Festival. Okay. IT was BEAUTIFUL. THere were so many light and, it was amazing. THere were so many people. I think that that was the one thing you HAVE to see when you come to Taiwan. It shows so much of there culture. They have so much tradition and culture that im really amazed. Like after i saw that, i was really really happy and like i have a feeling that i finally understood the importance of their culture and that i was really blending in the chinese culture. I love my family, and i love the taiwanese culture! I couldnt be happier right now! So after that we went back and Kaoshiung and we went to a nice night market. Im really gonna miss those in Canada. There so awesome. Like there so many things you can buy and look at, lots of food, lots of people. its just a great atmosphere!.
Sunday, March 2nd: we woke up early again and we went to look at the sea. I always forget that Taiwan is an island because when im in Taipei, im in the middle of the city. So it was amazing. It was a really really beautiful day, and we were in the mountains with a view of the ocean. It was so amazing. We wentto have lunch in a little restaurant with an amazing view of the ocean, so i had lunch while looking at the amazing sea. then, when we were driving back down, i saw monkeys!!! YEA real monkeys not in cages!! haha IT was awesome! theres alot of monkeys that live there cause its so warm and so many fruits! So i got out of the car to take a picture, and then one big monkey started walking to wards me and i got scared so i started running back to the car (yea, im so stupid i didnt think animal:running: theyll run too haha) so it started running after me so i was screaming Open the door open the dorr and i Jumped in the car and closed the door super fast hahaha. Then i just opened the window to take pictures haha . then i gave the monkey a Mango! (from the car window of course haha) and it ate it and it was SOOOO cool. It was such and AMAZING day! like i saw monkeys! haha i loved it haha, So then when the day couldnt get any better, it totally did! So we wentto see the harbor, where theres like HUGE boats like the movies that come in from the ocean..it was awesome. Then we took a boat to go to a small fishing community, there was a litlte market place and it was so beautiful and cool! taking the boat was fun too cause it was soo big haha. After that aall the kids went to a nicemarket and it was really fun. I bought some souvenirs for a couple people, and i had alot of fun! after that we came back to taipei and im soooo tired ! haha So i figured out a way to show all my pictures without you getting facebook, so ill post up the links on here when i get a chance! :D!
Bye bye!
brianne
Inscription à :
Articles (Atom)