Week 2

After the typhoon most of our team went into Taipei to explore. We went to Taipei 101, the Pixar Museum, Wu Fen Pu (cheap shopping area), and Ding Tai Fung.

The second week of training involved daily lectures, a food scavenger hunt in the Luodong Night Market, scooter practice, a practice teaching session in Fu-Shing Junior High (one of the schools the junior high ETAs may be placed), and a visit to the Yilan County traditional arts center. For that particular outing we were followed around by cameras so that we could help advertise the center. Well, mostly to show that foreigners could visit and appreciate it as well.

Chua Bing

(in the Loudong Night Market we had an amazing dessert dish made of ice combined with condensed milk and green mung bean = deliciousness!)

Taipei 101

(Maria, Kim, Monica, Carmen)

Pixar Museum

(I took lots of illegal pictures here since you weren't supposed take pictures of anything but it was cool.)

Fish from Finding Nemo

Ding Tai Fung

(famous xiao long bao place)

Xiao Long Bao

(so yummy!)

Scooter Practice

(this scooter is a little large for me so I think I'm sticking with the 100 cc ones. We practice for the scooter test after training every day.)

Luodong Night Market Scavenger Hunt

(These girls are awesome!! We finished first but unfortunately got one question wrong. However, we learned about many new places for traditional food. This place was a peanut brittle ice cream crepe like place.)

Cong You Bing

(soo good but a little oily)

Stinky Tofu!

(I tried the crispy kind and it was good)

Bao Xing Fen Yuan 包心粉圓

(sherbet and boba with a red bean inside)

Traditional Arts Center

(making sugarcane candy - he stretched it like taffy and the candy looked like long columns that were hollow)

Resting in front of a store

(f-b: Eric, Gabe, Kevin, Kelly, Jessica, Ellen, standing Jill & Lillian)

Glass blowing

(he was making a cow)

Wooden slippers racing game

(Kim and I)