mercredi 14 mai 2008

Last exchange student trip

Hello!
Well this last week and this week were really interesting. and difficult! Last wednesday was our last ALL exchnage student trip and we went to the east coast of Taiwan !! It was SO MUCH FUN but it was ALSO so sad because like it erally hit us that were leaving soon.
Day 1: We leave Taipei at 7:00am and go to Hualien. The roads were like realy in the mountains so i got car sick, so that wasnt to much fun but the scenery and the moutains were BEAUTIFUL. At l2:00 we arrived in Hualien and ate lunch, then we went to see famous mountains and liek valleys and stuff. It was so beautiful. Like really really really amazing. Then we arrived at the hotel at like 4 ocloch and we had the rest of the day to go eat dinner and explore Hualien on our own!
Day 2: Everyone was so tired cause of course we didnt sleep. haha We went on a boat at like 8 in the morning!!! I t was BEAUTIFUL we took the boat on the ocean adn the water was SO amazing and we saw DOLPHINS! real live dolphins not in a zoo!! it was amazinnng! Also the scenery was amazing to because there was the blue (nice not dark blue,) and the the montains that passed the clouds! it was such an amazing view. After that we went to eat lunch, and then we went to see this Monk university, it was really cool, like they have a llot of charity and its realy interesting. Then we went bike riding along the ocean side...it was erally nice!!! We then went to eat dinner and explred the rest of Hualien!
Day 3: The last day, we went to Ilan (going back to Hualien) and we went to this chinese art park. it was really really nice!!! After we came back to Taipei and i went to see my chinese pictures with Sofya! There nice!! and im going to bring them back haha

Monday, was really really horrible because of one my best-friens Sofya, from RUSSIA, went back to her country. She had to go early ebcaue she has a test she has to takefor university. It was so hard to say goodbye to her. Really really hard. I cried so much and i realized then that, my other best-friends are leaving in like 4 weeks and im leaving soon too. This year has been so amazing, the best year of my life and its already comming to an end. It went by so fast. Im giong to enjoy my last months so much!

Byee
bri

jeudi 1 mai 2008

My Birthday

Hello!
Its been a really long time since I have written, because I have been so busy!! Well April 7th and 8th, i went to Ilan with all the exhcange students!! It was SO COOL because welearned SO much about TAIWAN!! like all the politics, and like what had really happenned, like when it was under the Japanese order, then Chinese.. it was really interestnig. Taiwan is such a young country, and it went through lots of hard times.
Then, april went by SO FAST because it was so fun!! I got to meet alt of my friends parents because they came visit!!! It was SO cool!! Like, we went through so much together, and just seeing their parents was like our friendship grew closer. it was relaly cool!
Then, it was my BIRTHDAY!!! I had SO MUCH FUNNN! On the 26th, my awesome host family let my have 6 girls sleep over like a girls night/birthday party!! it was SO FUN!! we watched movies and talked, and it was really cool! ITs like the first time we all do that in Taiwan, and it was really cool because everyone said thats one of the things they missed the most with their freinds back home, just having girls night and watching movies and talking!! Then the 28th, my firends had another birthday party for me! and i had so much fun! OH, my classmates bought me this HUGE CAKE! it was sooo gooood :)!!! On the day of my birthday, I went home with my family and they took me out to this AMAZING ITALIAN RESTAURANT!! it was SO good!!! then, i got presents, and we had a cheese cake! My host sisters both gave me beautiful letters about how much they loved me and we were sisters for life, and my host brother gave me a necklace, as well as my host mom. it was such a great day, becayse i really really felt like i was in a family, and it was a real birthday!! I had so mcuh fun!! I cant beleive im 18 alreadyyy!!!
Oh! I also go to take Chinese Pictures!! It was such a graet experience! My face was painted white and i was wearing these really traditional dresses and hat! it was so cool and such a great souvenir!!
This week, was our LAST culture class, and chinese class ends in about 1 week. Its crazy how time is going by TOO fast. One of my best-friends Sofya from Russia is leaving in only one week and a half. Next week is our LAST trip together. Its gonna be so fun! were going to the east Taiwan!! were gona go Whale watching and dolphin watching!!! iM so excited!
Im changing families Sunday. Im really nervous because I LOVEthis family I am with, and i am sad im leaving! Im changing for only 18days, then changing again!

See you later!
Bri