Tuesday, July 4, 2006

   sweeefunnnnnduuuuuuuunnnngerrrrrrrrr!!!
well today's my second day here @ this taiwan language camp..thing. xp gosh, i arrived on wed. night, and by the next morning, i had 40+ insect bites. 27 i got during breakfast. 3 are on my face. 7 were all on the same arm. the rest were ALL OVER my legs. but of course, since it's almost been a week since i arrived, i've gotten more. xp i now have counted 51. X__________X god, i knew that bugs absolutely LOVED me, but not quite so much. and it's like 90+ degrees fahrenheit here EVERY DAY. but thankfully i have air conditioning in my dorm (we live in a college for the camp thing). ^_^

the morning after i had arrived, my aunt and her family took me to xito (pronounced shee-toe), which is like a national forest type of thing. OMG it was beautiful. then the next day we went to pingdong to see some lil kids there. :) they were pretty poor, and it was ESPECIALLY hot since it's @ the southern tip of taiwan. xp but it's like an aboriginal community, and we learned a lot about their culture, so it was REALLY cool (despite the heat...hahaha get it? me and my lame puns. XD).

then the next day we came back to taipei, and the day after that was the 1st day of the camp thing!

it's been pretty fun so far. we just had some placement tests to put us in classes, and it wasn't so bad. AND IT'S TOTALLY AIR-CONDITIONED!!!!! wheeeeeeeeeeeeee! x3 lol well yeah i was told the college i'm staying @ is the one my dad went to. O.o well anywho, the counselors are REALY funny. XD there's only one who's fluent in english, and he was translating for the ppl who know absolutely NO chinese, and he was being a total smart-ass and translating everything so that it would insult the guy who was talking. SO funny. the guy would say something like, "feixia is like pee-tuh pah-n! see?" (in chinese of course...except for the "pee-tuh pah-n" part). and he flapped his arms up and down...and the guy who was translating would be like, "he means peter pan. he THINKS he's tinkerbell, see? he's putting on a little dress and trying to fly around." and then the other guy thought that he was translating it right, so we was like, "ya ya ya ya ya." XD lol!

and it looks like we're gonna go on a whole bunch of trips too, including ones to other camps of the same program, so maybe i'll see kiki!! eeee! *squeal* but we're gonna go to xito again. xp BUT I JUST WENT THERE! TT_TT don¡¦t get me wrong, that place IS beautiful, but the MOSQUITOES...

...but at least we're gonna go to a waterpark. YAY!!!

XD haha and it turns out that we can use the computers pretty much anytime. i think i'm gonna be too busy studying, doing hw, practicing piano, and doing laundry to be on much though. TT_TT

omg and they taught us some songs...and one was almost completely in taiwanese (which i only know a few sentences or so of), so that was HARD. but the guy who was teaching it to us (tien tien or sky sky...and you have to call him sky sky, not just sky, or else he'll ignore you. XD) was the same guy who was getting translated by the smart-ass, so that ended up being pretty funny too. sky sky was singing and completely exaggerating his movements, and the smart-ass was throwing cardboard boxes at him. rofl! and then sky sky was like, ¡§see? i sing so well that he's sending these to me as gifts!¡¨ XD XD XD hahaha

so yesh. and i have 2 roomies! one is 17 and from NJ, and the other is 14 too but from SPAIN!! so i can practice my spanish too!! YAAAAAAAAY!!! and there were even some other ppl (and keep in mind that they're all of chinese/taiwanese descent) from france, germany, the NETHERLANDS, chile...etc. so it's like...O_O yeah. but most of us are still from the US. XD there are like 190-ish students here...and like 94 of us are americans. xp

quote of the day

"Whoever said you can't buy happiness forgot about puppies." -Gene Hill (i miss my doggie...TT_TT and everyone else at home too of course. <3)

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