Amelia's Travel Blog : Taipei!

Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Taipei!

This past weekend I finally got to go to Taipei again! The flight from Kinmen is only about thirty minutes and Naima and I were able to leave school early so we would have more time in the city. We went with my host mom and after we arrived at the hotel we decided to visit an outdoor mall at the Ximen Station. I have to admit the first day was a bit overwhelming. I have become so used to living in tiny Jincheng, where you can safely walk in the streets. Going from that to the insane traffic in Taipei was terrifying. But it was amazing! It was nothing like I have ever experienced before. The next day we went to meet up with all the other inbounds in District 3480 at the train station. We took a train about and hour and a half to the east coast of Taiwan. I was worried at first about not being able to connect with the other exchange students because I am living on Kinmen and not in Taipei. It worked out great though and I met some awesome people. For the first culture class we biked on the coast. It was spectacular with the most unbelievable views! I was sad when I had to say goodbye to my new friends at the end of the day. But I will return in a month! After we arrived back in Taipei, Naima and I decided we would try to find the Shilin Night Market. It was surprisingly easy to find our way there on the MRT, but navigating around the market was a different story. There was a crazy amount of people in the market (it was a Saturday night) and it was difficult to push our way through the crowd. It was worth it! We ate some amazing food, and were able to find really cheap things. We could only make it through a small part of the market, it was huge! On our last day in Taipei we visited Taipei 101. After we exited the MRT station we could see it over the trees.We really wanted to go up to the top, but it was only open up to the 89th floor. It was still quite a view! We were able to see over the city and mountains. It was so beautiful. After a trip to Mc Donald's (how I missed it) we headed back to Kinmen. It's good to be home. <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.