Up With People

"Meeting this group of people by a pretty little mistake.."

Why do i said so? Let me flashed back to the 1st day i went to Miaoli...

That's a hot day man, CE brought me to Miaoli travel info office to take some Taiwan travel pamphlets, in the meantime, the officer there told CE there will be a group called "Up With People" going to came to Taiwan at 7 September 2010, they need some of the residents at Miaoli be the host family for them, if we have any doubt we can attend a talk regarding to this program at night. Since we felt interesting on this program, so we attend it and without any further consideration, CE wrote down his name and personal info to be one of the host family for this program, i like this, keke...=p

7 September, the very 1st contact with these people, there are 80 in number from 20 different countries, WOW~is a huge group!

Every host family will have their own nick name and CE got cabbage as his nick name, so with this pig head cabbage we found two handsome young men to stay with CE for 4 days 3 nights, and my task is to be the translator for them (a poor English translator,LOL)

They look exhausted as they have a flight for almost one day to Taiwan! I sure it was a suffering thing for all of them...

After having some rest at CE's house, we have our dinner at a buffet style steamboat restaurant. Is weird to see western people eat with chopsticks, haha...I wanna tried to get fork and spoon for them but they refused me to do so, really admire them have a great spirit in trying new thing...=)

The next activity was going to a calligraphy teacher's house to write the calligraphy. The warm teacher served us "oriental beauty tea", they like it a lot, included me as well..=) Teacher wrote 2 ancient time poems to present them^^

2nd day...7.30 in the morning, we took away our breakfast from a traditional Taiwanese breakfast stall as we were short of time to drop them at the gathering venue...I really don't know how to translate 油条，烧饼，韭菜盒子 to them...somebody here can tell me what they called in English??..XD

Night there was a opening ceremony of " Welcome to Miaoli", some traditional acrobatics, lion dance, dragon dance and chinese yoyo were performed there... 

After the performance, we went to the night market, i think is not easy for them to accept the local chinese flavour...haha...we also brought them to have a look at the chinese temple.

Can you see them in this picture?!LOL

What's his wishing of??...

The night was still young, we decided to have some drinks at a bar...=)

Jason the Bermudian...=)

Chris the Canadian...=)

3rd day night, a wonderful musical show was shown at   Yu  Da University, they are awesome and done very well in that show, incredibly enjoy there...^^  

11 September morning, is time to say goodbye with them...

Goodbye friends...

I never thought that i will meet someone from Canadian or Bermudian or whatever places in my life before this, maybe we may not meet each other again in the future time, but sincerely thanks you guys  being part of my memories, miss the time we spent together even though it was short...=) Wish you guys have a safe and smooth trip throughout Up With People...have fun guys!!