wow so I ended up not being able to sleep...too worried about not waking up and my knees were hurting a lot. so when i went down the elevator at 7:10am I ran into the Japanese girls and when talking to them I realized I didn't know what I was saying (or felt like it) so I had to think really hard with each word to check that I was making sense. When we got to the meeting point I found out from Jerome that Josh wouldn't wake up. So i went myself to see if he wanted to come. When I got there I tried to wake him up but all i got was one eye opened for 2 sec looking really glazed over. He wouldn't even grunt a "no". i debated whether i should force him to give me an answer but I've never seen someone so unresponsive so I just left. (turns out later he didn't remember i went there but soon after I left he had woken up and debated whether he should try to make it) I had johnny save me a seat on the bus and it ended up being in the back 5
seat row sandwiched between the belgians and Johnny. we finally left and they put on Die Hard 4 (bootleg copy) really loud so I couldn't sleep. It really sucked. got to Yehliu Geopark and I really felt like staying on the bus and sleeping, but I'm glad I didn't. It was really beautiful. They're all these rock formations formed by waves and they look like mushrooms. The most famous one is Queen's Head (and really does look like a Queen, or at least a pompous woman). It was a little disappointing that there was a lot of trash in the water washed up on the rocks in some places. I can only assume they just didn't get to cleaning it from the typhoon...next we met up to go to Ocean World to see their dolphin show. At first it was cool (though typical). There were dolphins and seals, then it was just some synchronized swimmers and divers putting on a lame skit to entertain the children. i almost fell asleep during it. Then we went to the basement where there was a small aquarium. They had some interesting fish/sea animals that I've never seen before. But they had a bunch of sea turtles in a relatively small space so I felt really bad for them. then went to lunch at a seafood place. It was pretty good. i learned how to peel shrimp (i had someone else rip the head off). then got back on the bus and went to Juming Museum.
Juming is a famous sculptor and artist from Taiwan. He specializes in huge sculptures made to look like they were crudely carved from stone/wood, or rolled up metal. He has a series called Taichi, and also a lot of army things. His early work seemed to be a lot of people (some prostitutes...). at the beginning they showed us a video that went through the whole museum basically and a lot of people fell asleep. Then took the bus to Danshui, so I saw Fisherman's wharf again, but at night. Then Emily showed us around the Old Street where its pretty much all food. I had this "indian" style beef wrap and a fried shrimp roll. Then Emily treated us to Danshui food, which is fish ball soup (the fish balls had meat inside which made them diff from others),
stuffed tofu (ya gai?) , and another soup i forget the name...then went to get ice cream cones (they make super tall ones) and donuts from dunkin donuts (not the same donuts at all :( ) then bus back home
seat row sandwiched between the belgians and Johnny. we finally left and they put on Die Hard 4 (bootleg copy) really loud so I couldn't sleep. It really sucked. got to Yehliu Geopark and I really felt like staying on the bus and sleeping, but I'm glad I didn't. It was really beautiful. They're all these rock formations formed by waves and they look like mushrooms. The most famous one is Queen's Head (and really does look like a Queen, or at least a pompous woman). It was a little disappointing that there was a lot of trash in the water washed up on the rocks in some places. I can only assume they just didn't get to cleaning it from the typhoon...next we met up to go to Ocean World to see their dolphin show. At first it was cool (though typical). There were dolphins and seals, then it was just some synchronized swimmers and divers putting on a lame skit to entertain the children. i almost fell asleep during it. Then we went to the basement where there was a small aquarium. They had some interesting fish/sea animals that I've never seen before. But they had a bunch of sea turtles in a relatively small space so I felt really bad for them. then went to lunch at a seafood place. It was pretty good. i learned how to peel shrimp (i had someone else rip the head off). then got back on the bus and went to Juming Museum.
Juming is a famous sculptor and artist from Taiwan. He specializes in huge sculptures made to look like they were crudely carved from stone/wood, or rolled up metal. He has a series called Taichi, and also a lot of army things. His early work seemed to be a lot of people (some prostitutes...). at the beginning they showed us a video that went through the whole museum basically and a lot of people fell asleep. Then took the bus to Danshui, so I saw Fisherman's wharf again, but at night. Then Emily showed us around the Old Street where its pretty much all food. I had this "indian" style beef wrap and a fried shrimp roll. Then Emily treated us to Danshui food, which is fish ball soup (the fish balls had meat inside which made them diff from others),
stuffed tofu (ya gai?) , and another soup i forget the name...then went to get ice cream cones (they make super tall ones) and donuts from dunkin donuts (not the same donuts at all :( ) then bus back home
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