Taiwan!

Jk

this is gonna take me a long time to draft out so please excuse the delay as i spend forever writing this

ill probably split it up by 'place i was at in taiwan'

for the record i wrote a page in my journal for every day there

have more than a thousand pictures

and 50 videos.

Alright Taiwan trip part 1 whoohooo

I’ll try to make this as interesting as possible so as to not bore you readers to death

First a disclaimer: a lot of my pictures were deleted by someone using my computer =( so a lot of the beginning part of the trip will be pictureless darn.

Part 1: Lorton VA à Aletheia University, Danshui

First tip of the day when going through airport security is: do not overload your box with all your items, your shoe may fall out and be difficult to retrieve.

Second tip of the day: Never expect to sit next to any pretty ladies while on the plane I am 0/6 and this was to Japan/Taiwan. Instead expect to sit next to a fat guy 2/6…

The plane ride to Minneapolis (I went DC to Minneapolis to Tokyo to Taipei) was actually really painful. Not only did my boxers ride up half the ride, but the second half the air pressure caused my ears to hurt like crap and by crap I mean burning like someone just stuck a soldering iron in there. I remembered to chew gum every time after that.

So in Minneapolis I found out that. My plane apparently got hit by lightning 0.o;; and theyre doing safety checks on it. So I had to wait till 7pm for departure instead of 3pm. That annoyed me a bit but what can I do, I’ll be late a couple of hours to the gathering. Too bad at 7pm they said the plane would be delayed till 8am the next morning G_G. At least I got a hotel, 2 meals, and a free shirt out of it … >.<

Dinner was actually really lonely sitting at this huge table by myself and I had a fist sized cup of soup for dinner. I was so angry for paying 17 dollars for it I was about to leave when they came up with this huge plate of chicken and pasta and said this was my actual meal. Oh. So I sat back down xD

Fast forward to next day in Japan, man stuff there is expensive. 2 cool things there: 1) vending machines were freaking sexy: heres one from the trip back:

The other cool things were the toilets, I mean I’ve heard of the hi tech toilets that clean ur butt.. but ive never Seen one before it was cool I took a picture of the regular toilet, hi tech toilet, and squat down toilet too. Too bad they were deleted. =(

So when I got to Taiwan I was gonna get picked up by the ppl from the I love Taiwan missions camp ppl, cept after I waited 10 mins they didn’t really show up… so I tried calling an admin person using a pay phone.. FAIL. Tried using my phone card to call home.. FAIL.. tried getting a cop to tell me how to use the phone.. he just looked at me funny FAIL.. tried to get on laptop to scream for help .. no wifi FAIL! After some frantic OHMYGOSHWATDOIDO, I got called on the intercom and picked up by 2 staff members. Yay

So finally the camp itself, it was really not what I expected. There were a lot of speakers and lectures that were really boring and everyone else thought so too. I thought we were gonna go pretty much to the local churches and start teaching some kids but apparently they felt it necessary to show us around Taiwan and stuff …so that’s cool too. There were ppl from Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, Germany, Wales, Thailand, Canada, Russia, etc. etc. it was pretty cool

A few things about Taiwan:

a) Food is freaking cheap. U can get a full course meal with so much good stuff for 3 US dollars wow, and later on I got an all you can eat seafood, steak, sushi, everything, shaved ice, ice cream, omygoshwtf buffet for only 370NT – that’s about 12-13 dollars US.

b) It smells like crap especially the city. The sewage is enough to make u gag but add smog from the like 50 mopeds on the street at once and I almost puked first time in the city.

c) there are a lot of good looking girls in Taiwan. Moving on

I spent the last 2 days we were supposed to be at the University kinda listening to speakers, chilling with friends I made there and kinda having fun. It was really not what I expected and it was actually pretty nice too. I got to go to a night market where stuff is dirt cheap and yea anyways all the nice amenities were about to change.

Right before we left we had this really intense ceremony. They huge this huge cross from the ceiling and had a 3D model of Taiwan with a string attached to each of the local churches we were supposed to go to in Taiwan:

We lit candles too dang

And afterwards =O they had a feet washing ceremony to send us off. Talk about intense.

Anyways we left for the local churches soon after so I’ll do that in the next update

To be continued: Part 2: Pan-Ding Church, Taichung