【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.......
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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.

【Day 11】leave Taipei+Jinguashi+shifen

We left Taipei for Shifen today!!
photos first and then I will write more~~

Encountered a big cute dog in Jingguashi, near the Golden Ecological Park. His owner is a fireman, so it is a firedog?

tall Baker

Baker never adimit that he is shorter than me.He really need a girlfriend now. Could someone help heim?

a cute kid in Goden Ecological park

It took us 2 hours from NTU to to Jingushi. I sleep on the way there. I always feel excited about everthing in Taiwan and busy with talking with people in this program so once I get chance to take a nap, I fall a sleep.

When I waked up, we have been away from Taipei and I didn't know where we were. I felt that I am so lost in Taiwan cuz wherever we go, we always get a reliable tour guide, like Jack, or Hulda during the free time. I kinda of like this feeling because u would never get worried because of get lost or cannot to find a nice restaurant. 

We experienced '淘金' in the Golden Ecological Museum. Frankly speaking, it is fun and silly. I had thought that they would let us to find golden in the golden mine, but it turned out that we just find "golden sand" in a bowl of soil. It was stupid, right? Everone was happy though. We all got a small glass bottle with a little bit shiny stuff in the end, which was golden according to the staff there.

After that we went to Jiufen, which is a place has many stop stores with local food or local art craft? we spent 4 hours there and we had 阿柑姨芋圆 and different kinds of fish balls. They were great!!

This is the photo of Shifen! They place we lived that day. That's a romantic place! I felt that I was in the movie when we were there! And I was pretty sure that <那些年> was shoot here. The scene that Kejingteng wants to express his love to Shenjiayi. Anyway, it is a good place for couple or for shooting movies.

the place we live is sooooromantic

We had a sky latern(Kong Ming Ltern) and wrote a lot of wishes on it!! 

I like Jiufen!! I think I will come back one day!!

【Day 8+9+10】

Tomorrow we will leave Tapei and for the next two weeks! Cherish the time staying with everybody!!! So I think I'd better finish my journal for these days.

Last Sunday is our only free day and a group of us went to Fulong Beach and Cat Cities. That was a long and impressived day!!
We went to swim on in Fulong Beach. It was a beatiful beach with great water plying area. We were so lucky that it was the last day for sand castle exibition.

Ready for swimming!!!

the Sand Castle exhibition!!!!

a cute doggie before & after swimming!!!

our lunch~~~small lunch box~~~~

cat city

Cats are my favourite animal!! Before coming to Taiwan, I heard about cat city and really want to go to take a look of the cats!! And here I am!!!

ALthought there were more people than cats~,it still made my day because of these cute cats!!!!

it is the king of the cat, he has a realy big and angry face!!!!!

cats!!cats!!!

I forget to mention how crowded the train was. there was no seats and bearly place to stand. we were so tired on the way back and could only sit on the floor of the train and selfie!!!!!

Yesterday, we went to a geological park. It was so hot and the sun almost burned me. I was hurnt on my shoulders by sun burnt the day before yesterday. therefore, the great sunlight almost kill me we exposed my shoulders again under the sun!!!!

However, the rocks were amazing! They have different shapes because of weathering and sea water erosion. 

Today, the greatest part is the blue dye!!! It's my first time to do it and it was soooomuch fun!!! how wonderful that the dyes we used are purely natural. It is extracted from a plant which chinese name is 板蓝根. it is a medicical plant!!!

The buddsim temple we visited is just so-so. I prefer to see a traditional temple instead of a modern one. And the meal we had in the temple today is sooo....well, I don't want to eat it again. I can not imagine how the monks eat such kind of meals for everdya. eventhoug it is all vegetable, they can still cook it in a more delicious way, right?

Well, have a good night~~ (I feel that my english writing is so poor, i hope people can understand what I am saying)

【Day 7】Museum of Aborigines + National palace museum + Shilin Night Market

Great day. I wish I could live in Taiwan foever, beside a night market....Haha.

The aborginal museum was great. I think I learned a lot from the tour guide from the museum. Her English is quite good and clear. I like her sweet voice and interesting story.

There are officially 14 ethnic groups in Taiwan. They have inhabited Taiwan for over 4000 years befor the Han people came. Their culture are all amazing. The Amis, which is a ethnic group that females have the highest rank in family according to the tour guide. All the photos we saw in the museum showed that women at home usually sit leisurely in the middle of the room and the males always sit beside or are out for work. There is even a special festival fot females to pick up their husbands~~ What a great tribe!! Women are have more power than males have!!!

The afternoon we went to the National Palace Museum~~ All the stuff in exibition are precious!!
They all came from mainland China we  Jieshi Jiang failed the war between the two parties. So the frbidden citen in Beijing is empty because all the treasures are here in Taiwan!!! Well, I hope these stuff can go back to where they are from. They belong to China and its great history. ...and happy to see all these things are well preseved.

The night market was fanstastic!!!! I wan to live in Taiwan and go shopping in the Night market everyday!!!!Hahaha~~ good night!!