Amelia's Travel Blog : June 2012

Thursday, June 14, 2012

Guarantee Form!

Finally Finally Finally Finally Finally! I simply cannot explain the excitement I felt when I received that oh so important envelope in the mail yesterday. After waiting for months, and watching anxiously as others received theirs, mine has arrived! I now have confirmation of my host family and can finally contact the travel agent about my Visa to Taiwan, and China! After I get my Visa, I can set a date for when I leave. Odds are it will be sometime between August 19th and August 23rd because inbound orientation is the 25th.In addition to talking with some members of my first host family over the past month I have also talked with the other exchange student that will be living on the island of Kinmen. The more information I acquire the more real this whole thing seems. I will literally be living in Taiwan in about 70 days, the idea is absolutely incomprehensible! I have also found out what school I will be attending, National Kinmen Senior High School. I will have one host brother and a host sister. A few weeks ago when I was told by my host sister that I would be living on a small island less than two miles from China instead of mainland Taiwan, I was absolutely terrified. I had spend months researching Taipei and knew nothing about the island of Kinmen. Let's just say it was an enormous shock. Now, I can hardly wait for my adventure to begin! I love Taiwan already. <3

Notre Dame

Today we visited notre dame. Notre Dame is a gothic cathedral in Paris. Once we got to Notre Dame we had to stand in a large line. it took about 15 minutes until w actually got inside. Right away we started to climb the 400 steps to the top of the church. We climbed and climbed and climbed and pretty soon we got to the first level. it was a pretty good view but the top was much better. Once we got to the top we had a spectacular view. Not as good as the Eiffle tower, which you could see, but still a view of the river and below Notre Dame. Inside the church the priest was preaching and there were candles lit everywhere. We walked around and looked at statues like the sculpture of Joan of arc. Once we left we headed on looking forward to the rest of the day.

The Patisserie

Today after we got back from are big museum walk my brother, sister, and i went to the Patisserie to get dinner and dessert that night. We walked around the corner towards a little shop that was down the street from our apartment. they had decorated treats like pie with the fruit in beautiful designs and they had treats that looked like they were a big glob of whip cream. We ended up getting one tiny pizza and a bunch of little pieces of pizza. For dessert we got to pieces of berry pie and 2 pieces of apircot pie, also an apple pie. The pie looked so pretty you didn't want to eat them to destroy the designs. they tasted just as good as they looked. when we got back we feasted on pie and pizza.