【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.......
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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!!