Sunday 4 September 2011

a surprising trip to Jiufen

After the welcome party, I got a call at 23:00, Serena who went to France last year asked me if I wanted to go with her, her friends and four of the inbounds to Jiufen where I already went to after coming back to Taiwan. I however agreed because I'd like to know the inbounds more. I woke up really early to go to school first to get the fee this semester. And then, I went directly to Taipei main station to meet the others. There were Olivia, Yoan, Hunter, Alex, Jenny, Serena and Alice, Serena's friend We went there by train and then by bus. It was kind of a long trip. Jenny Tsai was all the time nagging that she wanted to sleep, but I think she'd rather talk to me than sleep. Jiufen was anyway not an interesting place to go. They were walking and then complaining. Anyway, we went to the gold mine. And then, we just sat down in a circle in the square and started playing Uno. It was fine though everyone was watching us playing. I think they think it's fun to see the foreigners. What I mean is they are human beings they are not monkeys in the zoo. Then we got the bus to go to the old street. It was a tiny street filled with a lot of people. There they saw condom world. That was kind of embarrassing but funny. That shop has always been a highlight whenever I went there and whoever I was with. They tried stinky tofu. It was still weird for them. I didn't had any because I thought I didn't really like it. After that, we went back to Taipei.
Eveyone then decided to go to the night market. There we met Shawn, Rika from America, and Paluba, the first time I saw him but not the first time I heard about him. I told Paluba a lot of things about the silly ones. As usual, there was really crowded in the night market. We bought some little snacks to eat in the streets and then we all got tired, so we went to the park nearby started to play the murder and Uno. Everytime I was about to win, Hunter called me for not saying Uno. I got impatient in the end. Surprisingly, I don't really hate him. At around 21:00, we decided to go home. A lot of inbounds were picked up by their host families despite of some of us. Jenny, Rika, Shawn, Paluba and I walked Alex home then to the MRT station. As soon as we were leaving for Alex's house. It started to rain heavily. bad luck :( Anyway, I was home safely by bus.
a cool day with exchange students. I love the exchange students. They reminded my of the craziest year in my life. I miss everyone from last year, especially some of you.

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