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Tuesday, July 8, 2008,6:04 PM

Taiwan Day 3, 4, 5

There's just too much to write [in detail]! Which is why I didn't post anything about Taiwan in the last 2 days. I'll just give you a quick summary. On Sunday, Ming Di (Yu Wen's mom's youngest sister) brought us around Taiwan to these places I forgot the names of. It was really fun! We rode around in this black van.

The temperature in Taiwan is sizzling hot at this time of the year. We had to carry umbrellas around, and sweat like crazy. We went to this place that had a rock that seriously looked like a queen's head, if you look at it from a certain angle. I love Taiwan food. They have a lot of really good snacks and stuff. We went to the museum thing and saw the biggest piece of gold in the world, I think. It weighed about 300-odd kilograms, and you can actually touch it. There were some scratch marks on the gold, because gold is soft. It's made of 99.9% (or something like that) gold and the rest is something else.

We also went to see the "Crown Prince Chalet", where Prince Hirohito from Japan stayed when he came to Taiwan. We went to the market, too, with Ming Di.

The evening sky was beautiful, like a painting or something. I was taking pictures of it from the car, so most of them were kinda blur.

On Monday, we wanted to go to the shop, called Julia, where I bought the Swarovski crystals for my phone, but it wasn't open yet, so we went to a tiny shop beside it. I bought 2 different earrings (not in pairs) and had the lady there clip off the sharp point so I could stick the earrings on my phone. I also bought some really pretty hair accessories there. We ate lunch at this place (called Niu Ba Ba something - niu: cow; ba ba: father) that was famous for their beef noodles. There were a lot of framed newspaper, magazine articles about the restaurant.

We went to the biggest bookstore in Taiwan (in a building called "eslite"), and there I bought this silver butterfly necklace with real butterfly wings as the pendant! It's not what you think! They took the wings after the butterfly died. There were 2, one in this beautiful blue color and the other in... I don't know, actually. It changes color depending on which angle you're looking at it. I took a really long time choosing, but in the end I bought the 2nd one (the guy said he'd recommend the blue one if I wanted to wear it, but the 2nd one if I wanted to collect it, because the blue one was really nice and the 2nd one was hard to get).

I also bought 2 My Flat in London bags by someone called Jan Haedrich. Very girly, very feminine. The clerk there spoke to us in English, so we spoke back to her in English. But the way she spoke... it sounded like she was having a lot of trouble. I thought she was Japanese or something. But then later my mom said something in Chinese, then the girl was like, in Mandarin, "Ahhh! You know how to speak Chinese? Why didn't you speak in Chinese? I was going to die! I don't know how to speak English!"

Lol, right? Then we went to the 101 Tower, just to take a few pictures, and went back to the hotel. Then we went to the Shilin night market. Taiwan night markets are very different from the ones here. They're a lot nicer. The shops there are small, but most are decorated very, VERY nicely. And they're actually in buildings, but most of them have no front door (but they do have air-conditioning).

We woke up at 5:45AM (it was bright, even at that time of the day) today because the flight was really early. Then blah.

Well, so much for a short summary. The first one was short though. Omg, the stuff in Taiwan are so niceeeeee! And can you believe the Vampire Knight anime, season 1, has only 13 EPISODES??? But it's sooooooooooooo nice and I love it! I watched it in our hotel room (we upgraded our room to the executive-something so we had Internet access there, and now my Youtube's in Chinese and I don't know how to change it back =.=).

OMG!! I can't wait for season 2.

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