Taiwan Trip
My blog of what I did during my 2011 trip to Taiwan!
Monday, 15 August 2011
I didn't get to post on my blog because there wasn't a computer to use and since I forgot alot about what I did in Korea I guess I'll just have to let it slide
(fyi the puncuations like exclamation marks and commas and stuff don't work on this computer)
Now I am safely in Taiwan typing a computer
Oh yeah!!! I got alot of presents for everyoneeeeee
But boy I still have to get a few more
I feel like Jay is going to think his present is lame so I need to look for another one because I think it is(sorry)
Well hope everyone is doing good and I will be back on September 1st!
Wednesday, 10 August 2011
Ok, now Im gonna try making up one. It might suck though :s
Worth: 50/50 picarats (gonna be pretty hard.)
A Delayed Flight
Oh no! My parents' flight is delayed!And I just got on my plane... Right now it is 3:00pm, and they are going to be delayed for 4 hours!!! Hey, can you help me figure out how long I'll have to wait for them?
Ok, well, now it is 3:05 since I just typed all this. If their flight is 3 hours and my flight is 7 hours, how many hours will I have to wait?(and minutes.)
If my parents end up having to wait, just write the number of hours they wait with a - .(Like if they wait for one hour, the answer would be -1.)
Leave your answer in the comments...
I ate some chicken nuggets and red bean buns for breakfast.... Not the best I've had so far.
We headed to the airport, and at that time it was POURING rain. There was like a milimeter flood. Good thing I brought my umbrella. Bad thing, my sister did not. :)
Anyway, then we took a bus to the airport. At that time I got a little hungry so my grandma decided we could get something to eat. I had a hot dog and my sister got this beef ramen. The ramen... was pretty gross. There was a packet of "meat" you were supposed to pour in the ramen, and there was just a bunch of brown juice and little pieces of soggy meat. Also, two packets of slop to add and some dried lettuce and flavoring........ yeah. yummy.
Anyway, I'll have to skip a bunch. I don't wanna type for two days again.
We got on the plane, I had an uncomfortable nap, we got off the plane and then we met up with my uncle!
One good thing is that everyone I was visiting in korea knew english, so good thing I didn't have to learn korean, eh? :D
Since I have two uncles, It's easier to use names for them.
The one that picked me and my sister up at the airport is Hyunwoo.
OH! did i mention? The airport I was at is the #1 Airport in the world!!! YES! REALLY!!!! It was so big! They even had an ice rink! (but it was closed and im pretty sure the "ice" was plastic... )
Ok , then we ate some "soybean noodles " and rice. I thought the noodles tasted pretty good! Except I was the last one finished... I eat so slow.
Well, after that we walked around a bit more.
My uncle decided we could go to an internet Cafe, a place where you could use computers. It was 500 won for ten minutes. Thats about 5 cents! I checked my email and typed a bit of this. After using computers for about an hour and a half, We left and walked around.Then we walked by a mini coldstone... hEHEHE
Yup! Hyunwoo got us ice cream!!! I chose a medium scoop of Cheesecake Fantasy... YUMMMMMMM..... n _ n
It was so goooood!!!!!! I ate it all up!
Then we waited for a while for my parents to show up. Their flight was delayed 4 hours... :/
Then they finally showed up!!! Once they showed up we took a bus to another airport where my grandma was waiting. After meeting with my grandma we took a bus to her house and had a good rest.... ZZZ
Well, that was two days ago, since I could only use the internet cafe for a little bit, since i didnt want to waste too many coins.
yesterday: We woke up very tired to take a good little walk around town. I found a good present for sam, and a pretty random one for Jay... I'm not sure if Jay will use it...
Oh well.
Ok, and then we walked a bit more, ate some lunch, and then took a car back home to rest since some of us were tired. In the end, everyone went to bed and slept and then when we woke up we decided to got o Coex, the largest mall in Asia (square feet- wise)
well, we didnt have much time, about 30 minutes. But I found a few presents. I also bought a new sketchbook! Right now I am working on making it a drawing book (like, teaching how to draw and lots of pictures)
Well, right before we left, My uncle offered me another ice cream!!! My uncle Hyunwoo is so awesome! He bought me so many stuff... I promised him when i grow up, im going to be a doctor and get really rich and then to pay him back, I'm going to have to buy him a Ferrari.... Ugh. That means I have to study hard.
WELL!!! I'll WORK HARD!!! >:D
Anyway, I had the rainbow sherbert. Yummy! I really liked it! It was so creamy. :D
After Coex, we headed home and went to bed.
Now its morning! Today we are going to go to a palace... I will type about it today or tomorrow. Tomorrow we are going to Everland, basically a Korean disneyland. WAAAH I'm so blessed! > o <
OK! Thats it for now! BYEEE
Tuesday, 2 August 2011
8/2, 8/1, and 9/31
Ok, im going to blog three days in this post, because they are just unforgettable and I just went to bed too late on those days.
So, shall we get started?
9/31
We went to a resturant where you could cook your own meat!
That day in story mode
Meat Resturant By Emily
We walked in the chiming doors. It was beautiful, one thing I'm gonna say. There were golden patterns and a scarlet backround, a definite japanese feeling. The air was filled with the wonderful smells of juicy flavorful meat and sounds of the bubbling oil and the little grills.
We walked to our table and sat down. How about I tell you the way we all sat with a puzzle? (inspired by the video game: Professor Layton)
worth 20/20 picarats (if you played the game, you know what a picarat is. if you didn't, too bad)
There was a family of six that sat around a table, three on each side. Each sat at their own chosen seat. Using the comments they said below, figure out thw spots they each sat in. (You can call the 6 seats A, B, C, D, E, and F. To say the person in each seat, say ___ in A, or __in B)
Emily:I think I bumped into that person walking by.
Larry:Why do I get the seat thats the leftest?
Michelle: Oh, I love looking out the window.
Paige:I don't like being squished in the middle, Larry.
Rainbow: I am the leftest too, Larry!
Shoshanna:It's good to be in the seat closest to the Fire... the air conditioning is high!
The seating is like this:
A B C
D E F
Good luck! Leave your answer in the comments!
I think my favorite meat was the beef. It was so juicy with flavor! and it cooked fast. :P
Oh wait, story mode, yeah.
I put the steaming piece of beef in my mouth...
I saw colors all around me for a few moments as the flavor bursted in my mouth........... After that, soon all the beef was gone.
After we all ate until we were satisfied, we could get FREE ICE CREAM XD
There was strawberry, strawberry cheesecake, red bean,hazelnut, and another flavor that..... I cant remember :s
I had the strawberry cheesecake though. It was wonderful!
OK, end of the story and end of day 9/31
8/1
Woke up early and headed for a WATER PARK!!! XD
While my cousin's mom was paying for tickets, it seems that there was a lifeguard beauty pageant going on, since there were pictures of lifeguards everywhere. (I have to say one thing, all of them looked horrible..... sorry, but it was true. :( )then I saw #6. That face.... I had seen it somewhere before........... ....!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
IT LOOKED LIKE AN ASIAN VERSION OF... Taylor Lautner!!! Hey, sound ridiculous, but my sister agreed! She even took a pic. Hilarious. Asian Tay. HAHAHA
after changing into our swimsuits, It was time to PARTAY!!!
Well, party with burnin feet... The sun was out, and I guess we got lucky, because it was HOT. Must have been 110 degrees. So, that meant when we had to take off our shoes and walk on the concrete, which was hotter! so, after discovering the scalding floor, we had to POWERwalk to the stairs that were in the shade, since we weren't allowed to run.
The water park reminded me of McMinnville, except this place was MUCH bigger. Still, I'm not saying McVinny wasn't fun.
first, we went down a water slide called: UFO Expedition
THey had UFO shaped tubes fit for 4 people or less, so I got in with my 2 cousins and my sister. then, down we went! then into a tunnel (at the entrance there was water that soaked us) going back and forthwith water splashing everywhere!soon, it was over though. good thing the line was basically nothing, cause we got on again! After that and running to our shoes that were placed in shade, we walked around and went on a different slide, one that you would fall in a fork in the river and you could choose which one to go to. I decided to go with my cousin, I was in the front and my cousin got in the back,( It was one of those 8 shaped tubes) and we were off! Well, on the second fork in the river, litterally. We fell off. I am glad I was wearing my goggles, cause I wasn't expecting it at all. I just remember being tipped over and seing bubbles and struggling to stand until I realized the water was about 3 feet deep. After I found my cousin getting back up, we quickly snatched the tube and got back on choosing the left path as it was closer.
AFter that ride, we decided to go to a ride called the "Lazy River". It was a very slow river for relaxing while sailing in a tube. I decided to ride alone. There was this one particular part where there was a little bridge where a spout of water was coming out. Cold water. I spotted my sister not too far. A plan..........
I got out of my tube(this was allowed.)and grabbed one of the handles on my sister's tube... I started dragging her towards the spout of water. She started panicking and flapping her arms:
"NOO!STOP! STOP IT! NOOOO! NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!"I pushed her straight towards the water.... Dang. The flow of the river had turned her to the left and she had avoided the attack. That sucked!!!! DX
Anyway, after the lazy river it was time for some food. We all headed for the food area.
Which of the following 3 did you think I chose?
1. "Rice House"
2. Italian food
3. Fast food.
if you chose #1, you are.........
WRONG.
Hey, just because I am in taiwan doesn't mean that I wanna eat chinese food EVERY time. I chose fast food. Yeah.... american style. hahaha
I got fried chicken, fries, and some sprite. Oh yeah, my cousin? LOVES SPRITE. Gets it everytime there's a chance!!! At a restuarant, at the table, as a snack, at the store, MORE!
It somehow gets..... annoying? I don't know. Anyway, I usually get the stuff like Coke, Coca Cola. I am a dark soda fan. YEAH!
Anyway, the fried chicken was ok... I've had better before... OH! THE BEST CHICKEN IN THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD(in my opinion) is from
"Papa's Soul Food"!!! (It's a restuarant)Their fried chicken...... whoops, I'm drooling. It's so crispy and the chicken is so moist and cooked perfectly! My Best friend has had it before, and she liked it too! well, not too, because I LOVE it.
..... I miss Oregon.
OK! WEll, everyone that knows me and when I get back, please be prepared to see me even tanner(if possible) than before. Yup... I didn't wear sunscreen that day. TT _ TT
Well, after eating our food, we played around a bit more and then headed back by boat.
When we got off the boat, we all realized we were a little hungry. I spotted an ice cream stand...
Yup. Ice cream for dinner. But how, you ask? How did I just eat a simple ice cream cone for dinner? Well, my friend, that is wrong. It WASN'T an "simple" ice cream cone.
A super tall one! ONLY IN TAIWAN have I ever seen these desserts. They are super tall! I don't know, but It should be taller than a piece of paper, at least. I had gotten a SUPER one. Yup! It was good. :)
Well, we then walked around and I walked into this cute store with stuffed toys and stuff like that. I spotted something special and at once I knew that was going to be a gift for my best friend's mom, Amy. Although it is small.... :/ I thought she would like it. :)
After buying that, we had walked into a similar store, and I spotted a stitch bag!!! It looked perfect... I would have bought it if I didn't run out of money... TT _ TT
(Sorry Sam)
Anyway, then we took a bus home and all had a good night's sleep, since we had walked around so much that day.
End of day
8/2
I woke up feeling very tired... I could hardly stand up, everything was blurry. I guess I hadn't slept much because my cousin kept on hogging the bed... >:I
rrg.................
anyway, after a while, I lightened up and then my cousin's sister went out. At first I didn't know why, but then my cousin told me she was getting her friend to come over. I realized I was still in my PJs. Uh..........
I grabbed some old clothes and at that moment there was a knock at the door. I changed as fast as I could and then I saw the guest. She had square glasses and short hair and this sleepy look, but she was smiling. :)
Then while I was typing most of this my cousin's sister, my sister, and the friend started discussing about making cookies.
After a while of talking, they headed out to buy ingredients. My cousin was playing DS, and I was working on this huge post but spacing out every 5 minutes.(so progress was pretty slow.)
The baking group came back after about 20 minutes and started on making cookies. I saw that they had bought hot chocolate mix. I asked my sister why there was that.
She said they couldn't find any cocoa powder so they had to use hot chocolate mix...
Now I was interested on how the cookies were going to turn out... o _ o
Finally, the hot chocolate chip cookies were finished... They looked like ordinary cookies... So would they taste like one as well? I took a small bite.... I could taste the hot chocolate mix, and there was this salty flavor mixed in with the chocolate... It tasted pretty good! In fact, really good! I ate the cookie in a matter of seconds... Hey, you feel like trying this? well, make sure you look up how to subsitute hot chocolate mix for cocoa powder. And I'm warning you, you might not like it. I wouldn't be surprised... Sorry. But still, I think it was good. :D
Well, after cookies, we ate a few slices of cake the guest had brought. I chose a chocolate cake slice. It had a bit of coffee taste in it, but I ate alot of it. I love sweets.......... <3
soon, the friend left and that was basically the end of the day...
That was yesterday, since I had worked on this post for two days. (Like I said, slow progress.
- _ -)
Well, I am heading back to grandma's house today, so yeah. No posting for a while. And maybe not again, I'm heading to Korea soon! Yup! KOREA. :)
Well, Hope you like this! Hey, how about we end this post with a puzzle?
Worth 10/10 picarats
Cards
There are three kids who played a matching game of cards. They each are telling you how many pairs they had. Which one is lying?
A: 10!
B:9!
C:8.
Leave yor answer in the comments!
Ok, well, have a good day!
Monday, 18 July 2011
Well, then , how did I just post this? I came back to my cousin's house for one day. Yup. THat means...... After this post, It will be a very long time before I post again. Sorry to those who like stalking me and reading what I do everyday! :( (jk)
Anyway. How about I tell you what I did today? Or rather, yesterday, since it's 12:26 am now...
1.Well, yesterday I dreamed that I was for some reason going down an escalator, and maddie and andrew were behind me, and then, andrew said: are you an owl?
I turned around. ALL OF THE SUDDEN I was outside the church and I saw this little kid was playing in a sand box. Then he disappeared. I went up to the sandbox, and saw he left a bucket full of dirt. I dumped everything. then he came back. I said: sorry, were you going to use this? he nodded, expressionless. I started picking everything up, and then he said: watch out, it's poison. And he reached in the bucket and pulled out a...... rotten jellybean. white and moldy. ew.
I said, ok....
then, a woman appeared behind me. She was a really pretty lady, and i just started talking with her. She said: He has made up many songs........
I asked: about what?
"love"
and i dont know why, but I paused... and started crying.
And then the lady said this one verse in the bible while I was crying:
Love is patient. Love is kind. It does not boast. Love is not proud. Love is not rude, it is not selfish. Love is not easily angered, it does not keep a record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Then I woke up. (there was more to this dream but it is too long.) weird.
well, fyi that was yesterday's dream. todays dream was boring.
TODAY.
1. woke up to my cousin's sister waking me and my cousin up.( we all sleep in one room) she asked us if we wanted to go to their house for one day and then come back. we decided yes.
2. said goodbye, I went and bought some bread (yum!!! <3)
and we walked in the rain to the train station.
3.we arrived at my cousin's house. then...... we ate lunch, I played DS..... and...... uh.............. that's it. yeah. then I just got on the computer and typed all this. a pretty simple day, really. that's too bad.
it seems the only interesting thing about this post is my weird dream about being called an owl by andrew and crying. wheeeee.
ok, to make things a little more interesting, If you read this, do the following things;
1. go to the mirror and say: I. am. a. weird. person.
2. repeat #1 6 times.
3. run in 3 circles rubbing your stomach and patting on your head saying : COFFEEEE COFFEEEE
4. eat some ice cream!!!
5. go outside on a sunny day and have a picnic (in a park or in your backyard, it doesn't matter.)
6. have a race with someone. if you win, you get to do 15 pushups!GOOD FOR YOU! :D
7. Have someone video tape you pretending to slip on a banana peel
Note: any injuries are not Emily's fault. thank you.
8. make a video of a comedy show with friends or family!
9. Play Just dance and try getting 3 high scores!
LASTLY:
10. draw a comic book with at least 5 pages! DONT THROW IT AWAY EVEN IF IT'S THE STUPIDEST THING EVER!
And yes, this list will be fulfilled by you adults, too.\
Have a fun day!
Tuesday, 12 July 2011
1. We all woke up and I ate ice cream for breakfast. AHahahahahaaa
2.Used the computer for a while playing games that I couldn't understand
3.we left for my cousin's dentist appointment. ( had to take the bus.. urg.)
4.Then we went for a small walk because I wanted to buy some drawing books. the drawing books in taiwan aren't expensive and they have a reasonable amount of pages, so I really like buying alot to draw in.
5. Then It was time to head back and we happened to walk by a small sushi stand and a fried chicken stand. I got 2 shrimp and 2 sweet tofu sushis and one fried chicken. the fried chicken was so good! too bad I only got one.
6.on our way back( me and my cousin) saw a crepe stand! I wanted one, but I guess we were in a hurry... and then when my cousin's mom came home she was eating a crepe!!! i didn't say anything, though, i wasn't in the mood for riding another bus, and she didn't know I wanted a crepe. TT _ TT
7.we dressed up as clowns (hahaha. may I just say, it was my uncle's idea.) and took pictures. then, me and my cousin had an idea, i would dress up as layton, and my cousin would be luke! this is from a DS game: professor layton and the curious village. I love that game. then we took pictures of that. it was so funny :D
8. we took out the trash, and I went in the bakery and bought one cheese cake. I have to say it wasn't very good. It was too caky to be a CHEESEcake... all spongey,and right now the yucky flavor is still in my mouth and it's been about 20 minutes... I have already tried drinking milk, but right NOW i am going to get some WATER. be right back.
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(and tick tock tick tock tick tock tick tock tick tock tick tock tick tock tick tock tick tock.)
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yay. it worked. but now I have the taste of water in my mouth. OOOH AND HERE COMES THE CAKE AGAIN. bleeeeh.
9.well, then i watched a video on youtube. and HEEEEEEEEEEEEEERE i am now
yay! :D
Thursday, 7 July 2011
Ok. What did I do today? Well, I'm not telling you. I am going to tell you what I did YESTERDAY. (a hah!!! )
ok here goes. a hem hem hem. FIGORO FIGORO FIGORO FIGOROOooooooo. oh sorry, warmin up.
1. woke up and used the computer to chat with maddie.
2.went to a bakery near our house and bought a big piece of plain chocolate cake. ( no filling or anything and it is really light.) I had it with some milk, the milk in Taiwan tastes so good!
3. Went and took oh, about 3 trains to my grandmas house to drop off a few things.
4. Me and my cousin went to Family Mart ( another version of 7 11. )I ran all the way, leaving her walking behind. haha, im definitely taking track again next year!
5.We bought three big puddings, i bought this apple cider soda, and my cousin bought sierra mist and lemon tea for her sister.
6. getting home, we all layed on a big bed and played our DSs, drinking our beverages, and I ate my big pudding. I think the smaller ones taste better... but it was still good. :)
then uncle came in. I joked around and said: ZOMBIEeee!!! and then he ROARED and RAN TOWARDS ME and i screamed loudly. a haha, yes it was that scary.... x _ x
7.we went out and went on a walk through this marketplace, it was really busy but still was fun.
8. we went across a claw game shop.......... HOW COULD I RESIST?! I played about, uh..... eh heh, 30 tries. OK OK i went crazy! but, how can you blame me?! its a claw game!!! I saw this small stitch doll, and i remembered sam wanted stitch, so I went for it!
places coin in.
music goes. (dah dah dahhh dahd adhadadadad dahhh)
left.......... right. left........back.
BEEP
claw goes downnnnnnn
KACH
grabs onto stitch perfectly!
slowly comes up....
KACH
DROPS IT
AAAAUGH
AGAIN AGAIN
so.... that's basically what happened, and I wasted about a dollar on that one...( it was about 10 cents)sorry sam, i tried, but i couldnt get it. :'( but i DID get two other things. a patrick star (e heh heh - _ -) and this birdy thingy its cute :3
ok.
9.we walked for a bit more... then we went across 4 pet stores. in one of them, i was upstairs( it was a two- story)and looking at a few pets and then i heard this meowing... a little kitty meow! and it was coming from a door opened with a crack. I kinda peeked inside, and I saw the kitten! LOCKED IN A CAGE i was so sad for it. i bet it was reall scared, not knowing what was going to happen. and the room was dark and no one was there. waaah TT _ TT
10.on our way back we stopped by a smoothie place. I ordered a mango smoothie........ it tasted good!as we were waiting for it,we sat down outside at a small table, and i asked my uncle ( the magician) to do a magic trick. i took out a coin, and put it on the table. He took it. then he waved it behind my cousin's sister's elbow, and then waved out. IT WAS GONE. coooolll
11.we went back to the house and saw a building outside throught the window that was lighting up with cool colors in the dark. my grandma told us we could see it better if we went to the very top of the house. ( its a six story)so we climbed a few stairs. just as we were at the door, i realized it looked like the kind of door in left 4 dead, a zombie game.
I told my uncle(who was with me and my cousin we were all going up)that, and he said, yeah when you open the door, the zombies come out and eat you. RAAAWR!
I (who was carrying a pillow for defense) hid my face in my pillow as he opened the creaky door. IT FELT LIKE A ZOMBIE GAME. i finally just walked in. it was so cool! a rooftop... i saw the building much clearer.
12. we finally took all the trains back after saying goodbye to my grandparents.
13. coming back, we fed the two cats some catnip we had bought. THEY WENT CRAZY! well, one mostly did...
The two cats are taffy( a dark orangish- brownish cat with stripes. short hair and cute eyes)
and Dede( a fat black cat with white legs. short hair and skinny eyes)
what happened when we fed ________ catnip:
Taffy- he went nuts, spinning 180 degrees around, attacking his legs, slithering like a snake. it was hilarious!!!
Dede- He just rubbed against it, but was obsessive of it .
14. I went on the computer and typed all of this..... finally! ALL DONE
Saturday, 2 July 2011
1.Angels
2.Professor layton and the curious village
I would post pictures of them but I don't have a camera :(
also, I went to mcdonalds. The walk...was.....so..........tiring............
It was about 90 degrees and I walked for about 10 minutes straight in the hot air. When I got to Mcdonalds, thank goodness for the air conditioning. HALLELUJAH. AAhh.... n _ n
Today, (so far since it is only 5:00 pm over here)
1. I woke up with red eyes. urgg.... x _ x
2. I went to church. In my opinion though, First BAptist is the best. I was falling asleep, there was nothing fun, just too much seriousness... :( (And the jokes the pastor told didn't make sense to me...)
3. After church I bought PUDDING
and not just any pudding.............
Ok, maybe it is any pudding. BUT STILL! the. best. tasting.kind.of.pudding.and.its.really.hard.to.type.like.this.
4.Went to a ramen resturant. yummy! but i only ate like, 1/6 of the bowl... - _ -
5.then we walked in the sweaty heat again, and boarded a bus.
Do you know how Taiwan buses are like?
"No. o . o"
WELL IT IS HORRIBLE!!! O __ O
"!......Why...? o . o"
.................................... sqeaky sounds, uncomfortable seats, bmpy road, 80 miles per hour,holding handles until your hands turn red and hot, scary people all around.
the only good thing is the air conditioning. aah....
6. the we got home, I turned on the computer, and here i am.
Happy day <3
That's about it!:D
7/2/2011