12th Day
Today we went near the ocean. We walked to this one seafood restaurant. There was a lot of food. Today we went to Yeliou Geopark. It's an attraction that's at the beach somewhere. The famous rock there is the Queen's Head Rock. It's called that because the rock is shaped like Queen Elizabeth's head, all by natural weathering. However, I heard that before a walking path was built, people used to demolish rocks around it by carving their names into it and taking chunks off as 'souvenirs.' Also, after a few years, the rock will break and the head will be decapitated because of tides and erosion. Well, so we took pictures. The place was super hot and there were so many stair steps all over the place. So tiring... x_x Anyways, we saw lots of sea cockroaches. Afterwards, my uncle left for home. Later in the evening, we met our grandma again, who took us to a jewelry shop where there were 2 dogs inside. They were so cute! One of them was big and gray and fluffy...I don't know the breed though. The other one was a golden haired pomeranian. IT WAS SO CUTE >w< Later at night I rode on my first motorcycle ride. IT WAS EPIC. It's so fun...I want to drive a motorcycle here instead of a car when I get a permit or w/e. But the motorcycles here are noisy. We went to this one supermarket or something that had a parking floor (the top one) just for motorcycles. It looks pretty cool...because well...there's motorcycle parking rather than car parking in a parking lot floor. Anyways, we bought this one fruit called 'Buddha's head' because it looks like Buddha's head. The skin is inedible, and the fruit is mushy, with a lot of seeds. Basically to eat it, you eat the mushy sweet part and spit out the seeds (and don't eat the skin). It's sweet, but not the type of fruit I would normally eat. Nor the method. We finished Zelda: Twilight Princess today. Yea...well, we skipped a bunch of stuff, like catching fish and golden bugs, some caves, piece of hearts, poe souls, stuff like that. So we're re-playing the game at home now.
13th Day
Today we went to the Manga Fest. It costed $3 USD admission. Compared to Anime Expo, it is more colorful (the booths), smaller, more crowded, less variety, and no cosplay. The things that were similar to AX was the fact that both were expensive and perverted (to a degree). They sold these pillows...nah. Don't get me started. Put simply, they're perverted as well. Later, we went to Taiwan 101 again with our friends/neighbors to eat something like a light meal or snack. It was pretty boring. Later at night, we went by metro to Jiantan. It was pretty much an outdoor/indoor shopping place. There was a petshop that sold really cute puppies, kittens, birds, porcupines, chinchillas, and bunnies. Really cute bunnies. Oh yea, and mice and rodents. Including this one cute squirrel like animal that was black and white (not a skunk) that can attach to your clothes xD There was also an arcade there, lots of shops, and this one strangely dressed person. He seemed to be wearing some sort of gothic girl clothes, but it looked pretty cool...I think. Didn't really look at him, so I don't really know.
14th Day
I watched cartoons the whole morning. They included Spongebob, Keroro Gunso (awesome random show about froggies), Courage the Cowardly Dog (only a little bit), Ben10 (my first time watching that show), lapixiaoxin (or Shin-chan or something like that) and this one end of a drama that had a person with black wings. The wings didn't look attached to the person, but they looked cool anyway. Wonder what that drama's called...Anyways, they are all in Chinese, and/or with Chinese subtitles. Even the Ben10 theme song was in Chinese. That show is so weird...And pretty much most of these shows are on Cartoon Network there. There's also an anime channel, where I saw bits of Full Metal Panic? and Ouran High School Host Club (omg...so weird...). Keroro's an awesome show. These frogs are like, intense...they do supernatural things with futuristic technology. Then, I went back upstairs to see Sarina reading Black Cat, which I'm planning on reading/watching later. Later we went to the airport in a taxi. The airport looks cool and is colorful inside :3 We left Taiwan at around 11:00 maybe. Anyways, that Saturday was the longest Saturday in my life. It was also the longest time I kept my contact lenses on...Dx We arrived back at LAX about an hour early (8:00 PM Saturday). Yes, we 'time-traveled.' Pretty cool really. It was pitch black when we took off from TaoYuan Airport and during the middle of our flight, I opened the windows to find the sky blindingly bright. Then after a while I opened it again to find out it was about sunset. That type of pollution looks pretty. Finally, when we landed, the sky was dark again. When I got home (10:30 ish because of traffic and waiting for my dad to come), I started walking without the heels of my feet 0.o Then I just realized that I had never walked barefoot in Taiwan at all...just in my new sandals that have a bit of a raised heel structure. So...I was walking like I was marching backwards for a while. It was so weird...
This is the end of my 2-week trip. I don't care if anyone really reads this whole account of it, but I found my experience memorable and I wanted to write it down. Thank you if you did, by the way. I don't mean any offense to anyone. Hopefully I can go to Taiwan next year or the following year. Now I'm wondering if it's worth it to go to Seattle on the band trip this year. Maybe I'll be able to see my cousins that I haven't seen in 3 years or so. Otherwise, there's nothing new that I'll be experiencing, really