Amelia's Travel Blog : Taiwan

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Taiwan

It is official. Next year I will be spending 10 whole months in Taiwan! Words can not describe my excitement. I will be living in Taiwan! I got the good news on Saturday, and was instructed to begin learning the language. Mandarin Chinese, this should be interesting. Nin Hao, this is Chinese for hello which at the moment is the only word I know. I think were going to go with Rosetta stone, but even with the program I know it will be hard. Anyway, until I leave for Taiwan I'm taking classes at COTC. Right now I'm in Composition 1 which involves a lot of essays, but I'm also writing essays for the Rotary exchange. My first one was simply what is Rotary, one down three to go. All I can think is in seven and a half months, I will be off to Taiwan! <3

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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.