2015/10/13 
No Comments Hualien – aboriginal village
A-chen and Alice left me in the aboriginal village Sinshe on Thursday evening.
A doctor YuXiang and his wife GongGong are mostly taking care of me now. They have two wonderful children, a boy GongYu and girl SheiYuan. II stay at their friends house YangCong 2 km far from the village. That’s a bit difficult as I have to either ride a bike to the village or someone has to drive.me, but the house is OK and YangCong very kind although he cannot speak any english
I was lucky as on Friday their elementary school ( where are only less then 20 children and 10 morel in kindergarten) had a kind o f celebration. I had to get up before 6 am as there was a 2kilometers run in the morning. The celebration took all.day, But i got to.meet many people from the village which usually do not stay here during week as they work in Hualien or maybe Taipei.
There were different contests and games for students and also people from the village. I tried dancing some traditional aboriginal dance, throwing a fishernet or cutting the banana “wood” to get a fibre from which they make clothes, hats and so on.
The day was tiring, very hot but fun. The old people invited me to have some food with them, they were really very nice although I could just say that I cannot really understand. In the eveningGwe went to the only restaurant here for dinner which was really delicious. The whole organisational team assembled there and they were drinking a lot and toasting all the time. I met with the owner of the restaurant A-Zhen who is a sister of YuXiang. She is very nice person who offered ne her own bathroom that I had warm water. She also offered to cut my hair as she was before a hairdresser in Taipei.
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