Kaohsiung Trip and my Monday

Hey hey hey. So my Taiwanese friend wanted us to come to Kaohsiung with him so he could show us around since it is his home town and then he wanted us to stay in his house. Sooooooo that is what we did and it was fun stuff!! :D :D When we first made it to Kaohsiung after the 3 hour bus ride we went to a place to eat and it had good dumplings and potstickers and stuff. They were really delicious! We met up with another person and then went to Dream Mall. This mall was huge and very popular in Taiwan and I have noticed that Department Stores/Malls are really popular and basically every one has a mini amusement park on the roof haha. After exploring that we went to the beeeaaaacccchhhh :D and it was soooo beautiful and I couldn't believe that I was there! >_< The water was warm and awesome. We had some really really really fresh seafood after that(which was also so good that I actually liked it) After that we took the Subway (I am going to be pro at subways before I come back to America) back to the bus station and took an hour bus ride to our friends house in another part of Kaohsiung. Well when we got off the bus it was raining wayyyyyy bad so we all totally just got soaked and my feet and shoes smelled horrible......good thing you have to leave them outside :P Well after that we played games in his house for a little bit while eat AMAZING mango, kiwi, and watermelon :O (that's right, the watermelon is so good here that I actually love it). Then I gave myself an ankle tattoo and gave my friend a tattoo on her arm and then we slept. :D The next morning we had an awesome breakfast (with more fruit) and headed off to around town to thank my friends family for letting us stay and we also stopped at a chocolate shop where we had chocolate cake and some iced coffee yum yum yum! We then took the hour bus back to the main town and a few more buses to a hiking spot where we totally saw like 15 monkeys. They were all around us and one tried to take my friends pudding container since he was just holding it in his hands:P We hiked for a little bit in the suffocating heat which was way awesome since hiking is the best! We had an awesome view of the city and then we headed back down to civilization and then to the subway station where we went to the "Dome of Light" (which is in a subway station). It was awesome and crazy that they built this for a subway station. We then went to a Night Market in Kaohsiung where we all tried Snake Soup and I have got to say that it tasted fine. It was mega chewy but it was good nonetheless. When we were done we looked around a little bit and then headed back to Taichung on the 3 hour bus ride hoping that we would get back before 12 before the gates closed (we got back at 11:40 phewwwwwww) So that was an awesome trip and then today was geat because class was fun as usual and I finally got a picture of my classmates. And I just have to explain that I wasn't sitting on the chair the whole time but I had to since I was blocking people ( I am not that egotistical ). Then laterafter much rain and studying we went to eat dinnr with one of our language partners and we spoke chinese the whole time! :D We are all getting so fast and can remember more! :D :D yayayayay! Then we went back to our dorm and played a board game which I won and I was the only one who hadn't played hee hee (we spoke Chinese the whole time while playing also! go usssss!) After that I went back to my room and started writing my blog and look at this :O we came full circle ..weird.

Dream Mall

Kaohsiung

Ocean

Beach in Kaohsiung

Fresh Seafood....yum

The mango in Taiwan is amazing

View from my friends house

By my friends house.. the houses look poopy on outside but his was SOOOOOO fancy and 3 stories

Ditto... I could totally live there

:O

Hiking

Dome of Light.. this room was huge and awesome

Snake Soup

Peoples country of origin from left to right: Russia, UT USA, Japan, Indonesia, that's me, USA, USA, USA, Korea, Germany, Russia.... and my Taiwanese teacher.... Every one of them is awesome!!! :D :D