Haňule z Kyjova

I totally forgott to write down something yesterday! Maybe it’s because I had a skypecall and chatted with many people… So to sum up the weekend. On saturday I could sleep till 10am, the family went to their tomb to pay their respaect, because it was the Tom sweaping festival on saturday. After lunch there came two Jamies cousins and took me o a cinema. We watched Captain America II, and it was good:) I also met another of their friens and we went for dinner. That was again somtehing special for me – a pot og soup that was cooked at the table. In it was a duck and then we could add some stomach, intestines, cabbage and so on. Actually it was really delicious :))

On Sunday I woke up wih a start and went for a trip with two of the English teachers – Sarah and Bunnie. We went to a hometown of Bunnie, she is aboriginal, so that place is little special (in Fuxing). It is in the mountains and it’s tradition is in collecting young bamboo shoots.

By the way we stopped at a Chiang Kai-Shek mausoleum. There was a lot of chinese tourists again. The mauseloeum isn’t very big, and there is the coffin inside and the building is guarded by two not-moving guards (they should be more then 178cm heigh). You shouldn’t take pictures of the coffin but I did and I hope nobody saw me

Then tehre is a “park” which is full of Chiang Kai-Shek’s statues. It looks a little like in horror movie, only his statues all around you! These were brought here by people who didn’t want his statues at their schools or other public places.

me and the aboriginal teacher Bunnie eating mango ice cream

Then we went to see a waterfall in the mountains. It was really like form aa chinese painting – the treas, the waterfall, a small altan under it, and the high mountains above. They built a small view point above the waterfall – a “skywalk”. It was directly above the waterfall and the floor was made of glass so you could see down! Really something for a preson with little acrophobia!!

For lunch we went to Bunnie’s uncle. He has a resaturant which belongs to the 100 best resaturants in Tawian! The food here was really delicious, and also traditional for the aboriginals – some wild pig’s meat, bamboo shoots, some leaves from forest…

Back to Taoyuan we went literally stuffed with food. So Sarah suggested to go do some sports in an entertaiment centre. We tried softball (which is more difficult than I thought:)), billiard, small bowling and darts It was fun!

After that, still not hungry we went for a “smaller” dinner. After 3 weeks I had to use knife and fork and it was sooo weird!

Today, on Monday, I had 3 classes and lunch with students. Before lunch I went to swimming pool for the first time. The boy there (also lifeguard) doesn’t speak English at all, so I had to use legs and hands to ask were should I change into swimming suit:)) Then, because you have to wear a swimming cap, I wanted to byu one from him and I used the first real sentece in my life – to ask how much for it I’ll defintely remember this to the end of my life

Some students asked me out and we decided to visit the night market on Friday, so I’m really looking forward to that!