Chinese New Year, part 4 - Kenting!!

These are just a few of the many photos I took at White Sands beach in Kenting. I wandered around took photos of different people. I don't know the people in these photos but I thought they were cute. :)

Chinese New Year, part 3 - train from Hualien to Taitung

These photos were taken on the train from Hualien to Taitung. From Taitung, we hired a driver to take us to Kenting, in the southernmost part of Taiwan. That was a 3 1/2 hour drive through a ridiculously winding mountain road.. needless to say, I won't be going to Kenting that way again. But the train to Taitung was beautiful. We had almost the entire car to ourselves. Only two other passengers. So I could move around and take photos through the window.

Chinese New Year Trip, part 2 - Hualien and Taroko Gorge

The following photos were taken in Taroko Gorge. We scootered 18 km into the Gorge, at lunch in a small (reeeaallly small) town, and scootered back. It was beauutiful! Check out my Facebook for the people pictures. :)

These following photos were taken at a beach in Hualien. We found it on the way to the Gorge.

And this was the view from our balcony at the B&B in Hualien.

Chinese New Year Vacation, part 1 - Taipei

This is a famous bubble milk tea in Taipei. It's WONDERFUL!

















This time, the pandas were awake! So cute...




















The flamingoes were pretty.

This is a carved coral at the 88th floor of the Taipei 101 building.

My failed attempt at a panoramic photo at the 89th floor of 101.

This is the wind damper that makes sure Taipei 101 doesn't fall over in the wind or an earthquake. Don't know how it works. You can google it.

Whoo! how many taxis can you count in this one small section of Taipei road!?

View from the 89th floor of Taipei 101.

Yay! Taipei 101! Second tallest building in the world!

God has the whole word in His hands, but I have Taipei 101 in mine. :)

The following few photos are taken in Shihlin night market. Good eats!

Festive lanterns in front of a temple in Shihlin night market.

The first of many self-portraits taken on this trip. In front of the National Palace museum, home to many beautiful valuables from ancient China.

We were Not Allowed to Take Photos. but I smuggled a few anyway. This is a curio box from... um.. a long time ago in China. I thought it was beautifully carved.

I will post a blog later with anecdotes, etc about our East coast train trip during Chinese New Year Vacation! Right now, though, I'm just glad to be back at home and have clean clothes. :) These photos are from part 1 of our trip - Taipei. We visited the National Palace Museum, Shihlin night market, Taipei 101, and the Taipei zoo in the two days we were there. I took loads of photos, so I'm only uploading a few of the scenic/place photos here to my blog. Photos of friends and me are shared on Facebook. :)

interesting happenings

I'm sorry. I'm so bad at blogging.
It's late at night now, but I have been having so many thoughts in my little head, so I thought I would type a *hopefully* quick update.
Most of you are also on my Facebook, so you remember I posted about my student Mason last week. Mason hit his head on the concrete of the playground and had internal bleeding to his brain, and was in NICU for a few days, and in hospital for another week after that. He came home today, and will be in class again on Thursday. So praise the Lord for healing Mason. I hope Mason's family comes to know Christ through this testimony. Thanks for praying with me for him.
Also, it seems we are in a new year since last I posted! oh I really am quite behind. My schedule at Jackson Five leaves me so tired and also I am a social creature and rather like to spend time with friends instead of bloggering on the Internet. Sorry.
Well, in a shorter version of what's happened since last I posted:
-Christmas came and went, all went well, gave lots of gifts out and got great gifts back and had fun times with all friends.
-New Year's came and went, had a party at our house, did the countdown on the roof, saw fireworks displays, and missed Suriname!
-Thus far in the new Year, two of my friends (well, four I suppose..) started relationships with each other, and two other friends have been in car crashes. And it's only the 17th. Makes me wonder what the rest of the year has in store..
-Our Chinese new Year's plan (5 friends +me) is to take a trip down the East cost of Taiwan by train. I'll post photos on Facebook. Chinese New year this year I get -1/29 - 02/06 off work.
-Next year's school schedule is officially very, very part time - one evening class on Monday's/Thursdays at JacksonFive. This is enough income for me to pay for basic, basic expenses, and hopfuly I'll be a full time student on scholarship at Feng chia university language Center. I'm really actually quite excited to be a full time student again.
-I had an encounter with someone today that challenged me to study Scripture to be prepared to defend my faith to anybody. I may meet with them again on Saturday. Without going into detail, pray about this meeting, if it happens. I know that's vague, but I do appreciate your prayers.
- Our cell group is undergoing some changes in leadership soon. Pray about this, if you can.
- I recently have felt like I want to research and become knowledgable on so many subjects. I also have all these projects I want to start. But I don't have any time! *sniffle* I've had trouble sleeping for all the Thoughts in my head. It's kind of annoying. I feel like I need to have a File Day in my brain and file all my thoughts, but I never have any time.
I'm tired, I will try to go to sleep now. I feel like this was a serious and rather depressing post somehow because I did'nt make any jokes. Ok, so I'll end with a joke:
How do you stop an elephant from charging?

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You take away his credit card!!!
oh yah. See! I'm still funny. :)
Thanks for your prayer support. I need it!
~Sharon