Thursday, August 31, 2006

   sweefundunger...

^ me at my chinese/taiwanese summer camp. :)

well WAY too much has happened since i last updated, so i'll just do a quick briefing. ^_~

sooo...basically the summer school thing i was at took us on a trip every week, and at the end, we have a graduation trip (3 days). after dan shui, we went to yi-lan (a SMALL waterpark). for our graduation trip, we went to an amuesment park for the first day. i went on this roller-coaster w/ a whole bunch of loops and spins 2x. THAT WAS SO FUN. plus i got a cute lil doggie plushie there. x3 they had a roller coaster with a VERTICAL DROP that my friends went on. but i COULDN'T do that one. >_< too scary!!!

second day we went to xito and ri yue tan, which are like scenic places. ^^ very pretty. unfortunately i had gotten bitten by a horse fly or something at the amusement park and got one of my major reactions (why must my body react so seriously to bug bites?? TT_TT) again, except that time it was worse cuz it swelled to a H U G E size REALLY fast. so i spent a lot of time hiding in the bus. >____<

third day was the best. WE WENT TO A HUGE-MONGUS WATERPARK!!! it had waterslides SEVEN stories high!! AND BEACH VOLLEYBALL!!! unfortunately the fly bite was right on my wrist where i'm supposed to receive the ball, so i couldn't play for long. :( but there was this one ride-like thing where you're in an inner tube and slide almost STRAIGHT down from about seven stories high...and it's kinda like a skateboard park where you go UP and down and UP and down. SO FUN!!! and kiki (yes, she went on our graduation trip w/ us even though she was at a different camp-i'll explain that later) was going w/ me and was REALLY freaked out, so she asked the saftey supervisor guy if the front or the back was scarier, and he said the back. so she sat in the front, and i sat in the back. then once we were all set and everything the guy said to her, "remember how i told you that the back is scarier? well it's actually the front!" and then he just PUSHED us off! XD lol SO fun. :)

so yeah...kiki quit her camp. had to pay extra, and her reason for quitting was good enough that she got to arrange to go to our graduation trip with us. basically her reason was cuz her roomies wrongly accused her of stealing some PENS and made such a huge deal out of it that the police became involved. and if you leave a police record in taiwan, you can't go back. almost ALL of kiki's relatives are over there. >_>

anyhow, the day after graduation trip was over, almost everyone (including me) left the camp--last day. we were all crying cuz we became such good friends w/ the counselors and each other. :( it was sad...

then i met up with my home family who had JUST arrived in taiwan and stayed in taiwan for another (pretty eventless) week and a half. then we went to japan. B) though that was kinda eventless too...just mostly walking around and seeing what there is to see.

we were supposed to leave the 23rd, but there ended up being a big problem with our plane, so they delayed the flight to the 24th. SO they put us in this REALLY fancy hotel for a night, and it was right next to TOKYO DISNEYLAND!!!!!! so of course we went there. and it was awesome, except we didn't make it in time for the haunted mansion. :( the park closes at 10, and we got there at about 7-ish. plus waiting in LINES takes forever. >_< space mt. really wasn't worth that wait...

then we came home, picked up our dog from sakki's (YAY!), and settled back in. :)

but then kiki left to move ACROSS THE COUNTRY from us a little after we got back. :( at least i got to see her on her last day....

i also found out that volleyball had already started at my school (even though school hasn't started yet), so i joined, got on the worst team (>_<), and am having lots of fun! i can definately say that i'm already improving tons though. ^^

ok...done debriefing. that really was NOT that short, was it...? heh. oh well. sorry.

quote of the day (from potc2--AWESOME movie)
tortuga lady 1: jack sparrow?
tortuga lady 2: i haven't seen him in a month.
tortuga lady 1: when you find him, be sure to give him this message. *SLAP*."
XD XD lol

ps--new layout bg is a picture of dawn from our back porch. =D song is chinese, called "yu jian," or to...um..basically to meet (with) another person. i suck at translating. xp
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