Kathleen: Great food, great people, great shopping, what DON'T they have here?

So today was SO much fun! At this point you are probably thinking, "Does this girl ever NOT think something is fun?"... in Taiwan everything is fun! We got to sleep in today because it was the Dragon Boat festival and the school was closed! Page and I woke up around 8 and then headed to Yung Feng to meet the rest of the delegation! We headed back to Dasi where we went to the Dragon Boat festival! A Dragon Boat is just like a fancy canoe with a dragon carved in it! It was really cool to watch and it reminded me of the canoe races we had at the camp I used to go to! After the festival we headed to a place where we made lunch! It was super cute. We got to BBQ our own food! It was a lot of fun! Amalia and I manned our grill! The students from Dasi did not want us to cook but we made them let us! And I must say the food we made was DELICIOUS! The students from Dasi were so great! They were all so sweet and funny! And I got into an argument with them about who would win the NBA Championships, the Celtics obviously! I was sad when we had to say our final goodbyes to them! We won't be seeing them at all for the rest of the trip but hopefully some of them will come to Dallas this fall and we will get to see them!

After we got back from the Dragon Festival Matt led us by bus to meet Demi and Mimi at the Taoyuan downtown where we got to do some shopping! It's so cool because we have kind of become a little family, Amalia, Page, Dustin, Matt, Demi, Mimi, and I! I will honestly miss them so much when we have to leave! This trip is going by so fast! Demi's friend Spark also went shopping with us! I got some REALLY cute stuff today! I can't wait to show you guys everything! After our shopping adventures were fininshed we headed to dinner with Demi's family! We ate some AMAZING steak at this really cool restaraunt! And now we are home!

Tomorrow we go to two more high schools and after school my little family is going to see Toy Story 3! I am SUPER excited! It is in english but it has chinese subtitles! It will be so great! I plan to cherish every moment we have left here!