Settling in

I have to say getting arranged to this primary school, GuiShan elementary school, is my pleasure and my luck! The people I met here treated me like my family (even better!) Although we just knew each other, but they are so friendly so helpful and damn caring.

Before this I was thinking maybe I’ll  focus on my work on weekdays, and go exploring only during weekends, since this school is quite deserted, it was located half way up the hill, and usually will take about an hour to the nearest LRT station.

But the people I met here, the school staffs, they brought me all around the places in Taipei literally everyday after school. We finish our work daily at 5pm and after that we’ll always have something to do, or we can say, somewhere to eat LOL The me that usually won’t eat dinner get ‘force’ to eat all kinds of food. But hey, we’re travelling so no skipping meals!

DAY1

Just right on my first day at this school, I’m lucky enough to meet an event where students from different six schools come for performance. They sang song, played instruments, I was in awe!

In the afternoon,I joined their cocurriculum activity which is wrestling. The coach is the national champion and one of the students is also the national champion for wrestling at Taiwan (damn cool)

After training, they had a small exchange presents session since Christmas is coming. Although I didn’t prepare anything but lucky me got a present from one of the students. Awwwwww.

Dinner was duck noodles. Damn yummy but damn big bowl. The last time I ate dinner like usual was probably a couple years ago, I have small tummy and I also eat slow. Eating with two guys makes me damn awkward LOL They finished theirs and I’m still far from halfway XD

After dinner we got ourselves bubble tea~! Brought it to one of the teachers house and spent a couple hours there. Almost all the teachers live in the same area and sometimes they’ll gather like this. We left about 10pm and went to FamilyMart, spent about two hours there with the coach and one of the guy doing NationalService, FuTeng. Gosh, first dinner then supper haha. Had a great first night together chatting and knowing each other better =)

DAY2

I was dozing off in the library in this morning and was awakened by the earthquake alarm. Only then I remembered Taiwan have earthquakes. But the one this day is only 1^st grade (?) which I can’t really feel.

After school coach brought me to 101 and to ChengPin 诚品 ,being damn caring he let me have my own time going around and waited me at the food court. I can’t find the book I’m looking for but got another quite interesting book. Book prices here is actually quite similar, almost same expensive XD Before this I always though ChengPin is a bookstore but No, its actually a kind of mall with its own brand. Its famous by its bookstore since its so damn big and organized.

Taipei 101

ChengPin

Ferrero Rocher doing live.

After that we went to JingMei night market 景美夜市, the coach let me tried all kinds of recommended food and also I did challenge the smelly toufu Haha, not that bad as I thought XD After dinner we even had 青蛙撞奶 and barbeque~ 青蛙撞奶is actually a kind of bubble tea but its with milk and brown sugar, love it.

臭豆腐、肉圆、猪血糕><

烧烤

A special dessert.

DAY3

Joined wrestling training today, formally. Wearing the wrestling costume was damn awkward. Good news: for just a short period training I learnt how to front flip (one more goal achieved!)  

Had dinner with the kindergarten teachers after school at SoulSteak, they have so many to talk from 7pm when we finished dinner to 9pm when the shop closed. Came out and continue outside the shop with me only wearing a long sleeve tee in the cold winter until 10pm LOL

With the staffs

After that we went to a pet shop, a two-storey one. They sell a wide range of pets there, and also accessories for the pets. Before going we home we even had 咸酥鸡 for supper. Fats, I can see fats.

One of the rows of fish

mini rabbits

my new friend says Hi.

DAY4

Fourth day and I realize the common thing they worry is that you are hungry. Like seriously I can’t finish the things they gave me. Even just breakfast I got a big rice dumpling and a few paos. It usually ended me asking for the coach or FuTeng to help me finish it Haha.

Helped to organise the presents to be giving out tomorrow before school ends. The children were asked to write down the presents they hope for Christmas and people will try to fulfil their dreams. Well, some asked for a remote control aeroplane but got a small airplane model XDDD

People here at Taiwan don’t really celebrate Christmas except Christians, so I thought tonight will be quite nothing. But I was wrong, sticking with the staff at GuiShan here will never leads to nothing Haha. Went for dinner at Carrefour with coach and FuTeng and had beef noodles 牛肉面, after that we went to buy lots of snacks to prepare for the night.

Ate halfway beef noodles

Went to the coach’s sister apartment which have Karaoke room at the basement for the residents here. Sang for the whole night but damnn I don’t know my songs name LOL

Damn spacious room.

DAY5

Christmas~!!!

The students had a small Christmas event in the morning, receiving their gifts. After that, I was invited to one of the classrooms for a Christmas party! They exchanged presents, danced and also brought a lot of snacks to share.

Dancing.

The kindergarten kids.

Giving presents time.

One, just one for me 

In the afternoon I got the chance to join one of the class for music period. Learnt the African drum singing their 原住民 traditional songs.

Damn hot teacher though XD

We went to 麻辣火锅 for dinner and I gave up after a while since its damn spicy my mouth goes numb LOL It was buffet but seriously I’m not a buffet person, well at least I ate a lot of Haagen Dazs for desserts XD

After dinner we went for a midnight movie, watched Snoopy. I realized even though I know Snoopy, but this was actually the first time I watch the animation for this. Quite meaningful as it has a lot of stories and moral values behind the main storyline.

You can probably tell that the people here are damn nice just seeing the way I go around. Only one week and the post is so long... They're also expert in food so I can say that everything I ate are all five stars' XD First week was great, not thinking about the bad side, I somehow hope that I can stay much more longer to explore but hope that I can leave the quite bad condition here. Tahan more stay more! Haha.