【Day29】The last day!!!!!!!! Don't want to say goodbye.

Today is the last day of BACT.
It is hard to write about the last day. .... so many things to say and so much emotion to express.

....still cannot believe this BACT program is coimg to the end. This one month goes too fast. I feel that I am still enjoying my time here with everyone, all of a sudden, it's time to say goodbye.

Well, no matter what happened today, is for the last time.  All the wonderful time Taiwan is coming to the end. (sad story.....)

 

6:30 a.m.,
Waked up, realize today is July 20. Feel My group planned to meet at 10 to finish our project. It was still early but I can not fall asleep anymore.

I don't know how to say.....(for sure....) but still can not believe today is the last day!!!!!!!!!!!
(*(&*$%%%(^$##@$%^^&&&&**&........upset....

I don't like being alone especially when our time to be together is limited. I really want to go find everyone and hug them, tell them how I enjoy the time to be with them for this past month. I was also considering phone people in th dorm and have an intimate conservation to deep our relationship so that we can have a last forever friendship.... However, I don't think I can speak understandable english when I am too emotional to express my feeling. No one can imagine how tough it was for me to kill the first 3 hours by myself in the dorm. I knew I can not waste time on only being sad but I still can not control myself to focus on anthing!!! I tried to calm down to preparing the final presention for this afternoon. However, I keep detracting and think of it's time to say goodbye, which made me even more sad. I think I can burst into cry anytime.

It is 10 olock, I tired to calm down and went down stairs to meet everyboday.  I tried to smile and make myself looks as easy as usual.

That's much better to spend time with my team member!! We finially finsihed our powerpoint and
rehearsaled for our final prensention. I felt that I can not speak English that time because I was so not myself. It wasa really complicated feeling, nervous, excited and sad.

12:30p.m.!! finished!!!! Everthing is done and only to wait for the presention in the afternoon. All our hard work will come to an end by then.

Richard changed for formal clothes. Jimmy also looks quite formal. Girls were in causal clothes. It is little bit weird when we stand together. That's not important though.

We had a quick lunch in the cafeterian on campus. (and I can not help to thingking this is the last time we have lunch together.....)

I felt like crying from time to time, especially when think of that this is the last time we do things together.  last time to see each other in the warm sunshine, last time to work on our project, last lime to have lunch together, last time to walk along the palm tree avenue on NTU campus, last time to tickle Jimmy.............

1:30pm. everone was in the meeting room to have a quize. (last time to be in the meeting room....

Then, Our group was the first to give presention. ....
We are the best ~~~hahaha~~ good job guys!! it is a pity that we didn't sing 《My  Heart Will Go On》 at the end. It's fine. Our hard work and presentation are already good enough to impress ourselves.

Dinner.
I don't really remember what I ate for dinner. Just Italy, it is a fancy resturant serves various differnt spachetti, icecream, desserts, fruits,..... however, I was not in the mood to enjoy food. I tried to make myself happy to enjoy this last dinner but I can not help to thinking about saying goodbye...

People start to take photos with each other. I didn't take lots of photos. I tried to smile.
Then, finially, I could no longer hold back my tears. I cried when someone said he has to leave....

I think I was the only one cried that night. I know everyone feels sad but they choose not to express by tears. I am too emotional. It is always hard for me to see goodbye.

This one month trip is one of my most unforgettable experineces!!! Taiwan is one of the most impressive places I ever been to. I know this trip would not be that interesting without all ur guys accompany. It's hard to imagine this short one-month trip gives me so many last fowever memories. I really enjoy this summer to be together with u guys!!!! Thank you, Jack, thank you BACT!!!! Thank you everyone!!!!!!!!!

Last group photo in Just Italy.

sure to remember all these faces and our happy time together.

 

Yinjie and me. Yinjie is the one who come with me to BACT from UBC. Luchy to have a friend like her that can share every story in Taiwan.

Nice group mates+ frineds!! Andria, Richard and Kim. Really love u guys!!!

Vico, nice to know u in BACT. always like to talk to u, no matter u smile or not!!!!

Nice girls!!!! Nice to be roommate with u for one week!!! I will miss the days when we put beds togerher and doing morning exercise!!!

Richard and Jimmy!!!!! Love u guys!!!!!

Hulda!!! The most impressive girl in BACT~~~Nice an Cute!!!

it's us with volunteer Henry. My first meal in BACT is with Herny, Jimmy and Andria. I said we will be in the same group at the first day, and we are!!!!

Thank u guys, thank u for always do stupid things with me!!!!!

Unforgettable memories!!!!

Thank u for all the volunteers and ur awesome work!!!

 

 And I miss a photo with Jack. Sorry Jack, u know u a the first one I really want to appreciate.
* most of these photos are from Andria and Vico. Thank u.

 

【Day 28】Taipei city Zoo!!!!!!

We went to the zoo today!
I didn't go to zoos for years!

We basically walk around the zoo by ourselves. We had McDonlds' in the zoo cause that is the only resturant there.

Havig McDonlds'!!!!

There is lots of people today and no place to sit down to eat in McDonlds'. We dicide to sit in the middle of a stage.
It it conspious for such a big group of people sit together in the middle of the stage. People keep staring at us.

I enjoyed to have lunch there with my friends. We were giving a performance of having lunch.hahhaha!

We went to see the "Taiwan area" to see local animals. Unfortunately, most of the animals were sleeping due to hot weather. Today is a really hot day!!!! Everyone looks sleepy and tired after lunch.

However, it is still excited to see llamas!! It has a very intersting Chinese name called 草泥马, which has the same pronounciation with a curse word in Chinese. 草泥马is lovely anyway!!!

草泥马!

Today is my second last day in Taiwan.
I should use time efficiently. My hours are limitted, however, I suddlenly found that I have so much things I want to do that haven't be done so far.

Vico helped to carry all the bags when we got tired.

Thank u vico!

 

Judy's professor ( also her boss), who is a senior graduated from UBC, invited me and Yinjie for dinner this evening. I was nerverous at the beginnig but then found out that this professor is that serious as I thought. He is so funny and Judy and him are more like friends ranter than boss and a subordinate. The dinner time was happy and easy. We had a long and nice conservation after dinner in Starbucks.

We talked about everything till 10:30 p.m. It was a nice time but I didn't have time for my hair cut......><

【Day 26+27】Rice seedling transplanting+ rice tasting + project discussing

Today is the first day being back!
Haha~~ Now Taipei is my third home!!!

beautiful sun set alog the way!!

We get up early in the morning. I gave Kim a morning call as usual. This is my thrid time (or forth time ?) to give her morning call~~ The last time is two weeks ago!
Time flies! Now I need to give her morning call again. (because she doesn't have an alarm and is afriad of getting up lately) Actually, everytime I call her, she already got up!!
Awwww, I wish I could get up on time. I don't get enough time to sleep everyday after I came Taiwan. Sleeping is a waste of time for us now, due to this limited one-month stay in Taiwan.

I got up, gave kim a morning call, quickly brushed my teeth and changed clothes.
I rushed for a quick breakfast in 7-11 and rushed to the farm with Kim.

We thought we were sure be late but actually it turned out that we two were the first to be there.
Kim found that the Taipei 101 can be seen from the NTU farm and she asked me to take a photo of her and the building.

Taipei 101 looks quite small on the photo but Kim is happy because she finally get a photo with it.

After everyone came, we started to go in the farm to do seedling transplanting!!! Hahah!!! This is the most exciting part of the day!

Sorry for not be able to post the photos here, I don't know what's wrong with my computer..

Seedling transplanting is much more funnier than I thought!
It feels good to step in the mud!! It's like being massage!!!!
The mud is dirty but everone looks happy to be in the mud!

We plant quickly than expected!
After that our group went to work on our projet.

I was not feeling good that day, because ,,,,,,,@@@@ always this few days every month
I was late for the group work becase I can not walk fast. Sorry, my groupmates!

Anyway, they already stat to work when I got the meeting room.
They didn't balme for my late. Thanks, team!! Hahaha, a great team with great team member is more important than everthing else!!

We bassically put all the data we collected in the past few days in the forest together, and then start to make a powerpoint.

People started to coming to the room for the rice-based lunch.
We stoped working and waiting for lunch.

Honestly, the rice is nothing special for me, because I eat it every day. Wondering if Kim, Andria and Kylee will think that is interesting to taste different kind of rice.

The dessert we got after lunch!! This is the most common and dielicious dessert in Taiwan. Called '芋圆'

We watched two videos about rice and rice culture in Taiwan.  I fell asleep in the middle of the video.

My team left in the meeting room and continued to work on our project after watching videos.
That's so happy that the whole big room is ours!! We can do anyting in the room,hahahha!!!

We took a rest after few hours work. I doodled everyone's  cute figure on the blackboard. We drew happily and I was kind of satisfied on my doodling. I can not help laughing cuz that is so funny to see everyone's face is drawn in a funny & silly way. However, Richard was quite unhappy about that.

the doodling when taking break

''''''''''still felt sorry for Richard now''''''''''' I only thought that was funny but didn't consider other's feeling...Richard, apologize for u again if u see this blog. I feel really really bad about what did I do that day, please believe I didn't mean to make fun of you...

We took a walk to 师大night market tonight.
~~~happy~~~

dinner!!

 

bike back after dinner. wonderful experience!

        

Only 2 days left...... good night!

【Day 24+25】Finishing project!!!!! 3 plots a day!!! We were already addicated to our work and can not stop!!!!

We finished our project today!!!

Ploting the forest is tough work but happy. According to Judy's advice, we changed our counting method for the remaing three plots. (We only finish 1 plot for the first day. The  first day is not productive at all because of the heavy rain..and...it took lomg time for us to figure out the method of ploting and counting. The start is usually the toughest part. Things getting better and better afterwards.We use "cross ploting method" for the last 3 plots instead of circling the plot. It was much easier afterwards because everyone was getting famailar with the process. We did our work well and quickly!

someone in the forest! Jimmy or Richard?

the plot centre!! It tooks us almost 2 hours to set a plot!

the compass whe use.

nic group with Jean!

 

the first day, raining while work

It was a sunny day! What a beautiful weather for forest work! My teammates are all very contributive . Sometimes I felt that I didn't contribute as much as everyone did. Although I study Forestry and the work we did is pretty much the same things we usually do for field study in Vancouver. It was still hard for me to solve the problems quickly and help my team out of trouble. Fortunately, Judy was there to help with our questions and difficulties.

I loooove my team!!!!!

Everyone was happy when the ploting is done! We were tired but still felt that we need to use up all our energy befor going back.That was our last day in Sitou. We went to the gaint tree and rainbow bridge. Jimmy wanted to see the Gaint Rock because he never seen one in Singapore. However, the road to gaint rock was block. I asked Jimmy to come to China to see gaint rock.
Hahahah~~we have lots of gaint things.


The we had a group photo to celebrate our finishing! The trangle photo!!! Show you later we I get photos from Richard.

                                                                      This is the photo!

Awesome group!!!!

an ungly photo of me. Thank u richard....

The last night in Sitou, we watch movie together. It was kind of weird that everyone lie on the same bed to watch movie together, boys and gilrs, even with the same blanket!!!!It feels like we are a family and don't need to care so much. It was warm and comfortable to lie on the bed and share a movie with friends. I sometimes can not belive that we build such a deep relationship during this one month. I feel so comfortabel when sthudying or hanging out with these people, just like a family. Intimate.

We shared a horror movie and it was really scared. Thanks god that I was with my "family", otherwise I would be freak out cuz it is a very scary movie.

I know I am gonna to miss this group people after we leave each other. Enjoy the last joy with them!

Then we went back to Taipei. We also went to a earthquake museum and an agricultural experiment centre! I actually didn't pay a lot attention to the places because I already felt upset for the leaving after 3 days,( 3 or 2??) I really don't want to say goodbye to you guys!!!!

Anyway, hello Taipei. It feels like going back home this time, kind of weird......
 I love here.

【I am Jiling】(This is not written by Jiling~)

I am clever, smart and elegant and always feel hungry. I always meet strange people in the street. I want to eat, eat and eat. There is only 3 days left in Taiwan. I want to stay there for a longer time!!

Today, I get up early for the rice planting. Even though I am flexible, I think rice planting is also a tough work. I can only plant very slow. At lunch, I eat a lots of rice. All the things are rice, including rice, sticky rice, sticky rice dumpling and rice noodles.

【Day 22+23】Project Topic!!!!! Project!!!! Project!!!!

Our group project doesn' t going as well as we cxpected. The real condition is much more complicated than we think. We need to reconsider our experiment and even change our topic.

We decided to do research on "wind resistant plants" at the beginning. We planned to use some plants from the research forest to do indoor experiment by exposing these plans to artificial wind (use a fan) for a whole day and to see how these plants doing under wind. By comparing this group of plants to a another control group, which was treated normally, we can know which species are more resistant to wind and which are not. So the result of this experiment can be appllied into the management of shelter forest to miminze the danmage of Typhoon.

However, our experiments are too ideal that we didn't consider the real situation. We we took a walk along the trails in forests, we found that our experiment is not able to accomplish by the following reasons:
- Due to the limitation of our experimental condition, we could only do indoor experiments on small plants, which means our experiment is not that meaningful because small plants are not that importan for wind preventing. Because during a big Typhoon, the most damage part is all the big trees other than small plants.
- It is impossible for us to find plants have same size, sutiable height and with mutiple individules for each species, and are also in good conditions.
- We can not totally mimic the natural condition of wind. That means our experiment are not that  scientific and can not be applied in real life.

When we realized that our origional thoughs can not be put into experiment, everone is disappointed especially me. Because I proposed this idea and I think I have to take the most responsility to help overcome difficulties to make our project going well. I don't want to disppoint my groupmates and myself.  I like this topic, all my group members and teachers are also like this topic!! We really want to do it!!!

But the reality is cruel, we have to change the topic. We discussed again for a  long time and still can not get a good result.

Luckily, today we talked to Judy, who is my schoolmate and just graduated from UBC this year. She gave us a new idea and suggested us to do our research based on observation rather than experiment.

Finally!!! All the things are going on the right track and start to coming out. Our new topic is still tough but all my groupmates are hardworking and quite contributed!!! I love to work together with them!!!!

【Day 21】 Typhoon+ no power+ no internet+ sleeping+ eating+ playing card + a good start with group project!!!

Today, we spent the whole day indoor!!!Because of The Typhoon!!!! (By the way, I found out that I wrongly spelled "typhoon" as 'Typhone'' in my journal yesterday).

We don't have nothing to do but eating sleeping and playing card games. We played a card game named Rat Slap. It was introduced by Jimmy. He is pretty good at "slaping" cards because of his big hands!!!! I lost all the card games we played this morning. The punishment is to do a sexy pose at Jack's door for 5 second. That was stupid, and I hate card games!!!

It was raining heavily outside and we all felt bored inside. Like "the loneliness for a group of people"
We were supposed to have lectures and visit the research forest today. The schedule was ruined by Typhoon!!!!

We just stayed in room to wait for the next meal. Because the road connecting outside were cut in the middle by wind-blown trees. We can't not get enough food supply and could only have a simple lunch.

We used this afternoon to came up with basic ideas for our project topic. We were doing pretty well and got lots of good topics to choose from. A good start!!! This feels so right to have a group of awesome people to work together with. Oh, our topic is to do reserch on wind-resistance plant.
We are gonna to do experiment with groups of plats and below them by a fan, sounds intersting?

I suggested this topic and I am so happy we pick up this one in the end!!! I think I came up with this topic mostly because my professor studys wind resistance of trees which influences me a lot.

Oh yes, I played games with Vico and he kissed Jimmy for punishment. That's soooooosweet!!! Haha~~~

Well, I found that I always talk about certain people i my blog. Maybe I should talk about other people as well next time!!

Ok, That' s for today! We only has one week left!!!! Cherish every single minutes with everyone in Taiwan!!!

Good luck with our group project!!!

【Day 19+20】left Shuili+ Endemic Specimen Research Institute+ long tea class+ Typhone is coming!!!!!

I didn't write journal yesterday. When I tried to write it last night, Kim was singing a song and Andria was about to sleep. I asked Kim to stop because she might bother Andria. Then Andria open her eyes and everybody laughed.....laughed...laughed.....哈哈哈哈哈哈哈~~~~~Then I have to give up writing because I didn't feel like writing anything in such situation.We laughed for a while and finally fell asleep.It was already 12 o'olock. The consequence is that we all overslept this morning and were late for breakfast.Thanks god I weaked everyone up at 7:30a.m.(we are supposed to get up at 7:00).

We left Shuili for the Endemic Specimen Research Institute yesterday morning.The most intresting part for yesterday's trip is that I found out Jimmy is actually silly and childlish.He wanted the secret little gift provided by the institute. You can get it by collecting the stamp of the twelve Chiese horoscope animals in the musesum. But Jimmy felt embarassed to collect the stamps,it is too chidlish, so he asked me to do it. How silly he is!!! Hahahah~~~

Later on, we had a lecture about bats in Taiwan.Lots of people were sleeping on  class (at least Jimmy was sleeping beside me~~). I listened really carefully and took lots of notes. I haven't listend so carefully for class for a long time. It feels so right because I got a prize from the teacher for identifying the bats he showed us. I felt like a bat expert now~~hahaha ~~~

Yesterday we had a super long class  about tea.Honestly, it is the most boring class I ever had in Taiwan. I know lots of my calssmates were really enjoy that class but it was hard for me to concentrate. Maybe I was too sleepy to listen cua I used up all my energy for the bat class. The tea class was supposed be in this morning but rescheduled due to the comming Typhone. We rushed our schedule and off to Sitou Experimental Forest in advance this afternoon.
We will stay here for a week and finish our group project.

We haven't be affected by Typhone yet. However, it is said that convencient store nearby will be closed anytime. We almost robbed the store by buying lots of snacks and drinks. Everyone is preparing for Typhone.

We are watching the news about Typhone on TV now. Typhone "Suli" is on the north east side of Taiwan one the sea right now. It will pass Taiwan tomorrow heavilly affected north part of Taiwan. We are in the middle of Taiwan but Jack said we still need to be prepared beause if it rains heavilly, mudslide is higly possible to happen.He is pretty worried and asks us to stay in room and need to get his permit to go outside.

I'd never experienced Typhone. It is kind of fresh and exciting to me rather than scary. Hope everone can be safe. Enjoy this night with Typhone!!!!

【Day 16+17+18】bird watching+ Meifeng farm+juice making+Manto making+tomato harvesting+ playing games of plants+Rubin Lock+ tissue box DIY

 Ok, I am going to write a quick journal!!! Three days together!!!
We did so many things these days!! and I really enjoyed the DIY stuff we did!!
                   
                            Hulda (from Taiwan) & me

We visited the farm. There are a lot of colourful flowers and herbs!!! (I don't know why can't I post pics now, something wrong with the Internet). Later, Iwill post pics of beautiful flowers and introduced them!!

Bun making

Juice making 

JImmy from Singapore

The juice making is so nice!! We worked in groups and take chage of different parts of juice making. I washed lettuce with Vico and Jimmy. They two are so silly that they kept the dirty leaves with crisp leaves.By te way, Jimmy's stoy in the army is also intresting. He said they leaned how to use gun and everyone has to take care of their guns like their wives. Then after he retaired the army, the gun became other people's wife! Hahahah~~~ Jimmy's wife!!!!

Kim from United States,doing farm work 

Tomatos!!

The dorm in Shuili

Kim & Andria (from the states) and sunset

Ok, back to the juice making. There were other people washing apples, beets and pineapple. some people cut fuits into small pieces to fit the blender. Then three groups can pick up their favourite fruit to the blender to make juice. We only use a littel bit lettuce and beets with lots of apple and pinealple! I think our juice was the best!!!!

We also worked in groups for Mento making. Tha't easy and fun but our Manto were as big as human feet!!
Photo later!!!

Today we were at Shuili Wood utilization Center and that's much warmer than in the mountain!! Finally~~I can wear short pants again!! However, the mosquitos are soooo annoying!!
We learned how to assemble Rubin Lock yesterday and had a competition. Yinjie was suprisingly good at doing it but she was too nerversous when competing. So did I.

We made a tissue box today!! That is super fun as well!! We did so many woody stuff!!!!!
Will left Shuili tomorrow!!! Looking forward to next station and hope Typhone will not affect our schedule!!!!
 Good night!!!

【Day 15 (real one)】Hiking on Hehuang Mountain+ throat hurts+ beautiful view

We went hiking on Hehuang Mountain. The breathing-takening view on Hehuan Mountain made everyone excited, even though we all got up early that morning and felt quite sleepy when hiking.

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Well, I felt so sleepy now. I ask Andria and Kim to help with writing my journal (Since Writing  In English are much easier ), however, they were not willing to do it. Kim said she can't because otherwise I can not improve my English. Okay....so I still need to do it myself.......
~~~~~~ continue then~~~~

We standed in various poses for pictures during hiking. Everyone tried to be as much creative as they can to pose for photos, just in order to record the gorgeous view on the top of mountain. Benjaming does his symbolic "Jump shot" everywhere.  Richard also created his own shot style----- "naked shot". He took off his shirt, standed up high on the top of the rock, posed for photos, which was quite hilarious. I wish I could have one of his "naked" pics to post.


The top of the mountain was quite cold. I didn't wear enough clothes to keep myself warm. Luckily that Chenhao has an extra shirt to borrow.Thanks, Chenhao! However, I am not that excited of taking pictures of myself if I am not weating good-looking clothes, because all the photos would be ungly.

And after we come back, my throat was scratchy. Kim gave me a small black bottle of medicine named "Thieves Spray"and said it is quite effective for throat but doesn't taste good. I said it is fine as long as it can help my throat. However, it turned out to be a spary used on the surface of kitchen and bathroom!!! No!!!! Kim!!!Do you want to kill me!!!!! Well, she said she always has the spray inside and it did works.  I believed her in the end and uses the spray. It worked a little bit but I don't like it.
Thanks Kim! Thank you for your magical  bathroom spary!!!!

We watched an intresting video of birds in Hehuang Mountain that evening. It was nice! I like the bird names Steer's Liochichla!! Thay are so caring to each otherand cute!!!!


~end for July 7~

【Day 15 actuall it is still about day 14】lack of oxygen on elevation 3000m, everyone becomes silly~~~

I read the journals of my classmates today. Some of them did great job!!!!! Kim's Journals are quite interesting to read. Andria's are detailed and long!!!!! I feel that Vico's English speaking is not very good, but he definitely did a good job in English writing. His journal looks good too. Which makes me feel bad with my journals. Although I have been studying in Canada for one year,  my English is quite poor when compared to peopel like Vico, whose first language is not English but who uses English at school everday. His writing seems more fluent than mine. Maybe I need to spend more time on my journal, pay more attention to every words and scentences to record my wonderful life here in better English.

Here we go!

We were off to Hehuanshan Station on July 6 and checked in the fancy hotel. I found that all the palces we live during our trip are so fancy and well accommodated, at least beetter than the hotels I used to live in mainland China. I am wondering if all the hotels in Taiwan are all fancy like this. Maybe  not. We spent 2700USD for this program and the price level is lower than in mainland China. We can spend 100 NT$ for a fancy meal in Taiwan, however, in China, you buy a meal that make u feel being robbed.

The first dinner in Hehuan Station was quite funny and we were all happy to chat with each other by surounding "Lazy Suize"(spell coreectlly?) I felt that I can not sit in the same talble with Vico. He is soooo funny. No matter what he says always maked Kim and I laugh like two idiots. The funniest thing about Vico is not what he says, its about the way he saying it. I mean his look on face, (basically, there is usually no look on Vico's face)...and his Hongkong accent...I think I can not sit in the same table with him any more, cause I always keep laughing and can not stop to eat.

After the video watch  of Hehauanshang flora, I suggested my classmates to play games outside in the open groud. Well, games,,,,,the only game I can think of was Eagle and Chickens（老鹰抓小鸡). I admitted it is stupid for a group of grow-ups to play such childlish games. However, everyone seemed to go back their childhood and enjoyed the game very much. I was happy that suggusted a stupid game and recalled everybodys' most silly and innocent part inside theire hearts. Being childlish and silly made lives happier, ahh?!

【Day 13+14】Tarako national park+ died goat+cute waiter who looks like 彭于晏

After saying goodbye to Huanlian City, we headed to Taroko National Park.

Walking along the Shakadang Trail, Dr. Chung introduced some of the most intresting plants by the trail. Steven and Chenhao are good at identifying plants(at least better than me).Every time we encountered a plants,I can't tell anything about the plants but they two always look professional and aometimes can tell the names of the plants by their features.I wish I could do that.

It's a sample of a plant. I don't remember the name and why Dr. Chuang introduced it to us. Maybe 干花榕？？？Who can tell?

It was too bad to see a dead goat blocking our way. It was lying in the middle of the trail with its eyes open. Its seemed that it has only been dead for a small while cuz its body was still warm when we found it. People kept passing by the goat and we all felt pity for it. Dr. Chuang said it is 长鬃山羊，who lives on the steep mountain. It can run fast on the steep slope and jump over rocks. It is flexible enouth to avoid barriers but sometimes fail and fall down the mountain,just like this one.

Nature is so cruel.

Later on, we played water in the river~ Kylee, Kim, Andria and Jessica even swimmed in the river~~~They jumped in the water and enjoyed the cooling touch of the waves. They looked so happy and even didn't care about getting wet. I found that Western girls are always "wilder" than Asian girls. They don't care so much like us. I wish I could be like that one day, could enjoy myselves witht worring too much!

After lunch we go sightseeing in Swallow Grotto Trail and did some stupid things and took stupid pictures!! HAHA~~

We lived in Tienhsiang Youth Activity Center after one days jounery. Every one was tired. I felt that I don't want to move any more when I got to the hotel. However, the cute guy we met during lit the fire under us (us menas me and Hulda~~maybe there was someone else,HAHAHHA)

He is the waitor in the resturant in the hostel. Hulda and I were totally attracted by him when we saw him carring the tray. He is tall and strong, with big eyes and tan skin. Hot body, charming face, he looks exactly like 彭于晏！！！Oh~~~~Yessssss!!! looks like 彭于晏！！！ Then Hulda and I can not helping to look at him everytime he came to serve the dishes. He is sooooooo cute!!!!!!! I know Hulda and I looks like two idiots when the cute waitor coming by. Even thongh I already have a boy friend~ It still be nice to apreciate a cute boy~~what's more, it was the first time to see handsome boy in Taiwan. The other boys we met are either short or too girlish (No offense~~~jajajajajajaja~~~ ). Seriously, it is more and more difficult to see a handsome man nowadays.Cute guys like 彭于晏 are even rare. 

The best is that we fianlly got his phone number and his name~~HAHAHA~~~so happy~~ But I still don't have enough courage to talk to him~~ Encounting a cute waitor in resturant makes  has definitly made my day~~ This experience makes my trip in Taiwan even more unforgettable!!!

Love you!! Taiwan!!!!

【Day 12】 Orchid garden+cingshui cliff+hualian city

We left our beautiful hotel in Shifen early in the morning after having a fancy breakfast with cute bread and a piece of ham. I really don’t want to leave this place but I know there will be more nice places waiting for us to explore.

After about one hour driving, we arrived at the King Car Orchid Park. I took a nap on the bus. An hour went quickly. I even didn’t what to get off the bus because I was sooooo sleepy. The orchid park is a park with different kinds of orchids. 虎斑蝴蝶兰, its leaves looks like the stripe of tiger. 玉女兰 looks like sugarcane，万代兰is the nation flower of Singapore. Benjiming and Jimmy were excited when they saw their nation flower…..there were still many many kinds of flowers that I can not remember the name.

We went to lunch in a small café. I didn’t remember what have I ordered before. It turned out that it was a big piece of duck!!! Oh god, I don’t like eating duck!!! Vico and Ken ordered the same thing. We sit together, talked and laughed over the whole meal. We chatted about my trip to Hongkong after this program and asked them to recommend some good and cheap places to go. Vico suggested me to a mountain (forgrot the name) to see monkeys. He asked me to bring two plastic bags, one with the supermarket logo and one without, to do an experiment. The monkey would be clever enough to steal the supermarket bag because they are more likely to find food in it. Ken and Vico also gave me lots of stupid ideas for my traveling…… silly boys….I have no comments for them and their stupid ideas…..= =…..

Then we drove along the costal to the Cingshui Cliff. The beautiful view along the road made me want to stay here forever and die here~~~~hahhaha~~~this is want I said when I was eating the super huge ice cream in NTU canteen!!!!!

After about 2 hours driving, we arrived in Huanlian city, a small city in the east side of Taiwan.We took walk in the city center after dinner, and went to sleep after that.

It was a great day but I felt really tired, maybe because I laugh and talk too much.