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