Drea's moments :): May 2012

My sister came to visit me and we had an amazing visit! It was so fun to have her here and spend 2 weeks showing her my home and catching up. Time flew by so fast and before we knew it we were in Taipei and she was about to get on a plane. :( Her visit was nice for multiple reasons but I was glad she came when she did because I was ready to go home and then she came with stuff from home and gave me hugs from tons of people (when I say she gave me hugs from them she literally did). My team loved her. They all thought she was so cool and she fit in so well.

I was able to bring her to tons of places all over Taiwan. We went to central east Taiwan, north Taiwan, and south Taiwan. She saw Taroko Gorge, Taipei 101, Kenting, tons of night markets, my little town of Chaozhou, Pingtung, Dream Mall (where all your dreams come true), and many other places. She tried Taiwan's famous stinky tofu and a lot of other random things over here.

Basically, we had tons of fun and didn't have enough time to show her everything I wanted her to see.

Here are her pictures from her trip, There's tons of them but that's not even all of our trip. A couple days before she left to go home some stole her camera so we don't have very many pictures from the end. Also, these are in no particular order.

I miss her and can't wait to see her again :)

Airplane view

Her first view of Asia.

Finally I get to see her :)

So many bicycles left there all night long.

^On the HSR going down south from Taipei.

---> My down town
<--- Random billboard also at in my down town

<--- The nice old ladies who live at my apartment who loved seeing my sister. ----> And a random baby that also lives at my apartment

Our amazingly delicious onion pancakes!

Of course we had to take her to the afternoon market. Where you can buy things like squid and frogs and rats.

Teaching at school! Doing our intro....

<----Teaching my restaurant/market class

Julia teaching transportation

Kyle teaching Toy Repair shop

Say Cheese!!!

^Amber in My Home
<----Amber bowling.

^Amber and Julia on the train ride to Hualien ^Amber and Julia at lunch with our school

One of the first days that she was here our school took us out to eat. We all had some kind of noodles and then we had all this food.

Yay! You can't tell but thing in the corner is actually Alisha's first ever bell fruit (aka waxy pear apple, wax apple, cloud apple and a million other names)

Please note our faces on the poster. This is on the side of our school. They can't help but advertise our adorable faces ;)

^The people from our school who took us out. Our guard Kevin, the "real" English teach Wilson, and our Director A-Yu! They're so fun.

Bowling like amateurs :)

"Amateurs move it right to left, and pros move it front to back"

<--Leesha's delicious noodles at lunch
---> On the train bound for Hualien!

--> At this particular tea stand (it's a chain) there is a drink that we like to refer to as a "Party In Your Mouth!" There is so much that they put into the drink to make it taste so good (and be so fatty!). First, you have you coconut jelly. Then, you add boba (tapicoa pearls, pearls, zhen zhu), but not just black pearls, black and white! Next, they put in some passion fruit syrup. Lastly, they add the tea. Mix it all up and you have party in your mouth, party in your mouth, party in your mouth