Yesterday was another great day in taiwan! It pored rain ALL day and by the end of it we all were soaked but it was so fun! We went to a seaside market, via kareoke bus of course and a boat, where the gang was divided into teams. Cathy, my host sister, went and I was so happy that she didn't have to study :) Well Gena, Ryan, Joseph, Dana, Eve and I were all on a team, the better team might I add, along with our host students. Let me tell you, having them all with us (especially Allen who is Ryan's host) made the experience all the more fun. Well our teams received little booklets with pictures and we had 4 hours to find the things along the market and take pictures of them. The team that returned with the most pictures would win. I got to try so many new things like eel, shrimp with the shell still on it, turkish ice cream and so many other cool things. We walked along the market, forgetting all about the scavenger hunt, and just enjoyed being together. At around 2 it started to POUR. I still got wet even though i had an umbrella and my socks got soaked. Anything that was in my backpack that wasnt sealed was dretched in water (my toilet paper roll included). Anyway, our team sought refudge in a mcdonalds where we enjoyed hot fudge sundays and mcflurries (or hurricanes as they are called here). We all met at the train station, and seeing that my team sort of disregarded the game, the other team "won". But really we're all winners, right? Well we found a group of taiwanese breakdancers and decided hey wont it be fun if we had a danceoff with them? We danced our texas linedance completely off beat with the music they were playing and were destroyed by their inhuman bends and twists. Basically no matter how hard we tried our inferior "shopping carts" and "sprinklers" just couldnt live up to their mad asian dancing skills. We had a good time though and they thought we were funny. It was a great ending to a potential disasterious day.
Today couldnt quite top yesterday's rainy day fun, but it came pretty close. After eating a nutricious bread with sunflower seeds, grains and cranberries for breakfast (my family's jaws would drop open if they found out i actually ate something healthy) i walked to Cathy's school with her. The sun was shinging and it was a great change from yesterday. When I arrived, a teacher drove Eve, Gena, Dana and I to Dasi High School. It was quite a long drive (a little more than 1 hour) and Eve got a little car sick. There were lots of winding roads and mountains on the way and the scenery was beautiful. Once at Dasi High, we were met by some students that would take us to class. I went to Civics, art and chemistry. During art, we sketched the scenery and danced with the students. They taught us all of the cool asian songs, choreography included. Lets just say that my lack of coordination when doing any physical activity once again did not fail to appear when i least wanted it to. I bet they got a few laughs watching me. For lunch, we made dumpliongs. Thats right MADE them. Instead of EATING them we got to MAKE them. That was so good and I promise they tasted ten times better because i made them. From Dasi High School we went to Mei-Wha Elementary School where we got to watch a top show. In Taiwan they play with tops (like the spinning type) and are pretty darn good at it too. These kids are 12 years old and they can spin tops made out of hats, tires, water bottles and the traditional wooden kind too of course. They can make the tops ride down string, land on bottle caps, and on drums. It was one of the most amazing things i have ever seen for someone so young. After watching the masters do it, they let us have a try. On my first attempt it hit my face. Youre supposed to pull a rope that is wrapped around a wooden top and then it is supposed to spin. My fell on its side and the rope whipped my face. Well after many tries, it finally worked and everyone had a blast doing it. Those little kids were the cutest and perfromed a routine for us. The teacher let us keep our tops to practice and we drove home. One thing that I've noticed here is that my english is getting progressively worse and worse with each day. I'm starting to speak "chinglish" as some say it which means english words with chinese grammar. My sentence strucutres are really weird and i feel like im getting an accent. Haha well I'm really getting so close to all the kids on this trip and were almost like a little family. Taiwan is staring to feel like my home away from home and i'm truly loving it here. It's been so great and I can't believe its been 5 days already and I cant wait to do what we have planned for the rest of the trip.
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