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
mercredi 14 mai 2008
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
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
samedi 5 avril 2008
the last few amazing weeks!
Hello!!
I have been so busy lately! haha
Last week, i went to Kenting (again... the southest place in taiwan!!) but htis time with my school! It was so much fun!!:
Day 1: We leave the school at like 7 am, we then drive to kenting and arrive there at about 4 pm...we sing karaoke the whole time on the bus! haha it was super fun! After we arrive we go to our hotel, and AMAZING hotel. Me Arely and susy shared one hotel room and it was so cool cause we had a balcony that overlooked the beach and ocean. The beach was litterealy like 5 seconds away. it was sooo cool (pics on facebook). We also had a beach party and we played volleyball, soccer, made sand castles, etc. That night after we ate supper, we went to a night market and it was really nice!! We had such a good time there!
Day2: We wake up and leave the hotel to go to different amazing and beautiful places in Kenting. we saw beautiful ocean sceneries, and the forrest and it was just really beautiful. Then we went to the Aquarium (again, it was sooo coool to go a second time haha) and then after that we drove to Tai-Nan and settled in the hotel. That night, we had this party where the tour guides organized it. It was fun and crazy! haha
Day3: We went to an amusement park!! It was sooo crazy!I went on my first really long roller coaster and i loved it! it was so fast and scary hahahaha I also met another french canadian from Quebec! She was there for 5 months, at the amusement park becuase she is a sort of acrobate, like she and other people (most from Russia) are like show people! It was so cool! She took me out for lunch and we talked about taiwan and things! it was really really funnn!hahha After that we returned home to Taipei!
I just got a reality check last week when i learned that our culture class(every wedenesday) and chinese class (that we have twice a week) are both ending at the end of APRIL (which is my birthday haha but this month!) its so crazy how fast its going.
Oh something amazing that happened to me! Well, I really love this taiwanese singer called Wang Lee-Hom. He is really really goodlooking and has an amazing voice. I already have all his cds and im his biggest foreign fan! haha I really like him and like i wish i could go to one of his concerts before i leave, but there really expensive and hard to go to. So yesteryda i was near Taipei 101 (tallest building in the world currently) with my friends Genesis and Jolene when all we heard was music, loud music. Then, the fan that I am, i was like wait, This is Wang Lee Hom, like i konw this song, then i reconized that next song also. I was like OMG its him! So we decided to go see what was going on. To my disapointement, all i saw were speakers outside a tent for Sony (hes the spokesman for Sony) and i said oh i think its a CD,cause i thought not someone as popular and famour as Lee-hom would have a concert in a tent. But then i was like ill go check, and guess who was there LIVE singing.. yes it was HIM! IT WAS WANG LEE_HOM! and i just almost passed out. haha my friends were like brianne, its not a big deal but i was like yes it is! its my favourite singer, like imagine seeing ur favourite singer in person performing a free concert!! So we stayed that while i just dreamingly listenned to his music and watched him perfom. it was so cool! Im never ever gonna forget that day!!!! I was so happy!!!
byebye!
bri
I have been so busy lately! haha
Last week, i went to Kenting (again... the southest place in taiwan!!) but htis time with my school! It was so much fun!!:
Day 1: We leave the school at like 7 am, we then drive to kenting and arrive there at about 4 pm...we sing karaoke the whole time on the bus! haha it was super fun! After we arrive we go to our hotel, and AMAZING hotel. Me Arely and susy shared one hotel room and it was so cool cause we had a balcony that overlooked the beach and ocean. The beach was litterealy like 5 seconds away. it was sooo cool (pics on facebook). We also had a beach party and we played volleyball, soccer, made sand castles, etc. That night after we ate supper, we went to a night market and it was really nice!! We had such a good time there!
Day2: We wake up and leave the hotel to go to different amazing and beautiful places in Kenting. we saw beautiful ocean sceneries, and the forrest and it was just really beautiful. Then we went to the Aquarium (again, it was sooo coool to go a second time haha) and then after that we drove to Tai-Nan and settled in the hotel. That night, we had this party where the tour guides organized it. It was fun and crazy! haha
Day3: We went to an amusement park!! It was sooo crazy!I went on my first really long roller coaster and i loved it! it was so fast and scary hahahaha I also met another french canadian from Quebec! She was there for 5 months, at the amusement park becuase she is a sort of acrobate, like she and other people (most from Russia) are like show people! It was so cool! She took me out for lunch and we talked about taiwan and things! it was really really funnn!hahha After that we returned home to Taipei!
I just got a reality check last week when i learned that our culture class(every wedenesday) and chinese class (that we have twice a week) are both ending at the end of APRIL (which is my birthday haha but this month!) its so crazy how fast its going.
Oh something amazing that happened to me! Well, I really love this taiwanese singer called Wang Lee-Hom. He is really really goodlooking and has an amazing voice. I already have all his cds and im his biggest foreign fan! haha I really like him and like i wish i could go to one of his concerts before i leave, but there really expensive and hard to go to. So yesteryda i was near Taipei 101 (tallest building in the world currently) with my friends Genesis and Jolene when all we heard was music, loud music. Then, the fan that I am, i was like wait, This is Wang Lee Hom, like i konw this song, then i reconized that next song also. I was like OMG its him! So we decided to go see what was going on. To my disapointement, all i saw were speakers outside a tent for Sony (hes the spokesman for Sony) and i said oh i think its a CD,cause i thought not someone as popular and famour as Lee-hom would have a concert in a tent. But then i was like ill go check, and guess who was there LIVE singing.. yes it was HIM! IT WAS WANG LEE_HOM! and i just almost passed out. haha my friends were like brianne, its not a big deal but i was like yes it is! its my favourite singer, like imagine seeing ur favourite singer in person performing a free concert!! So we stayed that while i just dreamingly listenned to his music and watched him perfom. it was so cool! Im never ever gonna forget that day!!!! I was so happy!!!
byebye!
bri
vendredi 21 mars 2008
Trip to Kenting!!
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!!
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!!
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
samedi 16 février 2008
6 months!!!
Hello!!
So guess what tomorrow is.... my 6 months anniversary of being in Taiwan!!! ALREADYYYY!! This is so crazy.. i cant beleive ive been here so long! I love it so much though and time is going by TOO fast.
So this week was very busy because i started school again! On tuesday was my first day of school!! Then on thursday i had my Rotary Presentation. I had to present Canada, in CHINESE!!! With a power point presentation. So, i had to make a presentation in Chinese, and then present about canada in CHinese. I was super nervous because i thought they wouldnt understand me! haha So my eldest host sister helped me translate and practise haha. And it went really goood!! i got alot of compliments about the presentation and i thought i went well. Except for the impossible questions some rotarians asked me.. like the percentage of trees that we cut down a year, or something. haha
But everything is going SOO well with my 3rd family.. They are soo awesome! My host sisters and I stay up late just talking about boys and Taiwan, like real sisters do haha I really feel like im a part of a family here. I really really love them!
CHinese class is starting again tomorrow (monday) And i am going on a trip wit hym Rotary Club (and Sascha becaus ehe is in my rotary club) for 2 days -1 night next week! Its gonna be fun! haha
I cant beleive ive been here 6 months...i cant beleive i only have about 4 months and a bit left... its no possible... its just going by to fast..
I miss you all but i dont want to come back... hahaha
xoxo
bri
So guess what tomorrow is.... my 6 months anniversary of being in Taiwan!!! ALREADYYYY!! This is so crazy.. i cant beleive ive been here so long! I love it so much though and time is going by TOO fast.
So this week was very busy because i started school again! On tuesday was my first day of school!! Then on thursday i had my Rotary Presentation. I had to present Canada, in CHINESE!!! With a power point presentation. So, i had to make a presentation in Chinese, and then present about canada in CHinese. I was super nervous because i thought they wouldnt understand me! haha So my eldest host sister helped me translate and practise haha. And it went really goood!! i got alot of compliments about the presentation and i thought i went well. Except for the impossible questions some rotarians asked me.. like the percentage of trees that we cut down a year, or something. haha
But everything is going SOO well with my 3rd family.. They are soo awesome! My host sisters and I stay up late just talking about boys and Taiwan, like real sisters do haha I really feel like im a part of a family here. I really really love them!
CHinese class is starting again tomorrow (monday) And i am going on a trip wit hym Rotary Club (and Sascha becaus ehe is in my rotary club) for 2 days -1 night next week! Its gonna be fun! haha
I cant beleive ive been here 6 months...i cant beleive i only have about 4 months and a bit left... its no possible... its just going by to fast..
I miss you all but i dont want to come back... hahaha
xoxo
bri
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