April 19, 2015
I just came back from Taiwan yesterday at 1 in the morning. I was so overwhelmingly sleeping and slept like a baby all night, or shall we say morning. I really, really super duper enjoyed the trip. I would usually love vacations and I am proud to say that this one was awesome. Even though I went to some places, okay, most of the places in Taiwan, it was nice to visit Taipei, Taizhong and other places like the sun moon lake which looks like a sun on the first half and a crescent moon on the second. Okinawa was also very new to me. The weather there was great and I understand why the people there have long lives. There was also an aquarium there that had 3 giant whale sharks. The tour guide there told us dozens of information and I think that it was surprising to know that America battled with Japan on this small island. I feel supremely sorry to the people who died in the battle and the loss of Japan but it was the past so, never mind. Then, we went to Taiwan and met another tour guide she was funny and talkative and could also speak Thai. I learned so much! There was a lot of funny facts like the one about the Thai dance. We make the 3 signal and wave it to ourselves and make the 5 signal and wave it out so it was like 3 baht in and 5 baht out which shows the not greediness and hesitant of us but for the Chinese dance, they make the 5 signal and wave it in and make a 2 signal and shake their hands like, should I wave the 2 out?
She told us about her tour members and their funny experience. Once, a tour member left their underwear at the hotel, meaning to throw it away but the hotel called my tour guide and sent it back by mail. There was also another time when the remote control was missing but there was an iphone instead, so that means that they mistaken the remote for their phone. There was also a time where three members forgot their things at the hotel. There was a buddha necklace, a pillow and an underwear. They called the tour guide, my tour guide, and she told them to send it back. When they opened the package, they saw the pillow at the bottom, the necklace at the middle and the underwear on top. The necklace's owner was so disgusted! She also told us other strategies like to close the curtains and the car won't get hot or how to know if a person is in the toilet stall. All you have to do is kick the stall and if you hear "Ah!" that means that someone is in the toilet.
We also forgot a member and the car can't u-turn so the guide jumped down and borrowed a motorcycle to ride back and get the member. She didn't even return the motorcycle and left it on the side of the road! Lol! Did you know that taiwanese take baths for only half an hour and Thais take them for an hour? There was a lot of cool facts. Over all, I enjoyed this fascinating Okinawan/Taiwanese trip. It was a wonderful experience that I would surely like to repeat.
