Aiesec winter explore day 31

Took the mrt to yenchengpu because we are setting off to the love river! 

But before that, pudding milk tea!! Ahh missed that so much!

Tastes like the one at share tea!

Reached the mrt station and it's soo modern!

Lights dome

Even had piano showcase!

Reached love river (10 min walk rom yanchengpu mrt) using google maps and the view was stunning! Also it was super sunny like Singapore TT 

We soon realized that this was a perfect place to take pictures!

Near love river there are many exhibits and wall paintings that were so pretty!

Sittin' on the fence~~

Even had #ootd wall hahaha

After that we took the ferry from the pier to cijin island! Remember the ferry comes every 40 min, starting from 1.20pm on weekends and public holidays. 40nt per ride.

Picture filtering in progress hahaha

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When we arrived at cijin island, we rented a double bike (danger object!) for 200nt (can be used the whole day, single bikes are 100nt) and cycled to the cijin light house.

Super tired walking up to the lighthouse! Kept stopping to take pictures haha. 

The sunlight made our pictures quite pretty!

Finally reached the lighthouse after forever! And took more photos...

We stopped at a seafood place for lunch and it as fresh! Jocelyn had a nice dosage of fish.

(As usual a half eaten meal cause us hungry kids forgot again)

Cycled to cijin beach! 

Keke spastic jump shot!

Regarding when I said the double bike was dangerous, it's because we were sharing the roads with other cyclists, trishaws, motorbikes and cars!! Totally had to put my driving instructor's  nagging to use to "keep checking my blind spot". No instructor to step on brake for me = I need to survive. Lol.

Sigh, luckily we made it safe! 

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We took the ferry back and proceeded to kaisyuan mrt to meet Rachel and her family for kaisyuan night market! 

Had an extraordinary amount of food there. 

Also we met a male manicurist (patronized by Rachel and me) whose heart was won over by Rachel in 30 minutes. LOL. He was sad that she didn't use "LINE", which is the whatsapp for Taiwanese people. 

Sigh, was going to take a picture of the manicure in good sunlight but it literally didn't live to see the light of day. After bathing it got cracked =.=

Left hand's manicure is still surviving

Finally it was so late that we missed the mrt and took a cab home.

Aiesec winter explore day 30

TGIF! Finally, Josephina and I are done with everything that we were tasked to teach! Can't believe that we've made it through 13x4=52 lessons over these 4 weeks!!

Class 601 on their last lesson with us. Many of them added me and Josephina on fb already. Sob, need to post more responsibly from now.

Me and Josephina also ratted on class 302 at the staff room when the teachers asked which class is the noisiest. Somehow ratting on them made us feel very good lol. I mean if the kids can't learn to take learning responsibly the easy way through us, they'd have to learn the hard way.

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After school, Jospehina's host mum brought us to have Korean food for lunch. Last meal with Josephina already :(

Awesome beef stew.

Josephina's

She is leaving for Singapore which means I'll be alone the whole of next week :(

I got pretty attached to her and had to blink back my tears when we said bye. TT I love phina jiejie. She's real responsible and reliable.

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But no time to waste, I had to chiong to Taipei to take my bus to Kaohsiung with Jocelyn for our weekend getaway.

Took u bus from Taipei bus station which costs 480nt!

Research on things to do at Kaohsiung (came quite unprepared) then slept through the 5 hour bus ride. We alighted at Kaohsiung station and a kind lady brought us to liouhe night market, which is very near to the the station and also near to our hostel! Can go anywhere if you have google maps haha. I'm an ambassador of google maps like Jocelyn :)

Our hostel is Old Taiwan (Liouhe) Hostel that I booked in a hurry just yesterday night (LOL) through hostelworld. 450NT per night! What a steal!

I wasn't expecting much because there weren't many online reviews but wow, was impressed again. The landlady was very hospitable and the hostel was very well equipped! Recommended!

We settled down and went out to explore liouhe night market proper.

This place is famous for their seafood so there are many seafood stalls.

Jocelyn got a swollen right eye!! Not sure of the cause!

She says she look like the hunchback cartoon LOL

Mostly seafood are totally fresh out of the tank but it's kinda cruel to see a living creature being impaled and placed above the charcoal stove while it's still wriggling. :(

Can't tell from the picture but the prawns on the stove were still putting up a useless fight :(

After that we passed by a fish stall and it had a huge fish that was chopped into half so we could see it's cross section and I saw a heart. Never occurred to me that fishes had hearts so Jocelyn thought I was dumb lol. And tortoises have hearts too lol. And ants. Revelation haha. =.= never mind 知错能改

After that it was 10.30 already so we went back to nice old hostel to watch running man. Awesome getaway! ^_^