Field Trip!!!

I got to go on an all day field trip with my 3rd grade students from my Tuesday school.

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We all took a bus together and the kids had a lot of fun singing karaoke during the ride. 95% of it was in Chinese, which I count as a blessing.

On the bus with Yoyo, one of my very helpful guides and a VERY loud karaoke singer!

 First we visited an airplane museum. Definitely not one of my top favorite things, but I thought this one was pretty cool. It reminded me of a report I had to do on the Write brothers once.

 Next, we visited a Coca-Cola factory/museum. Posing here with my third graders Eva, Emy, and Jenny.

                                                                  Jemmy, totally adorable!!!

Now that guy to the right is the closest thing to a stalker I've met in Taiwan so far.

                                                       I just thought this looked kinda cool.

                                Oh boy! lets see, Ben, Eva, ?, Jenny, Jemmy, me, and Emy.

                                   I don't think all of them understood when I said "silly picture!"
                                                                             
                                        
Next, we had lunch which consisted of a rice dumpling. (I didn't get a picture of mine but this one I found on the internet looks quite similar) A very sticky rice glob filled with chicken (I'm being optimistic), something black and chewy (hopefully a mushroom), and other what-not. I'm pretty sure I spotted two grubs in it, but at that point I decided to stop examining my food and just down it without thinking. I'm glad I remembered to pray before I ate!

                    For dessert I treated myself to chocolate and taro ice cream. My total favorites!

                                                             Our last stop was the zoo.
                       Quite different from America. At times it seemed to double as a petting zoo.

                              This picture is not zoomed in, the peacock was literally that close.

Just to clarify, no one pet the hippo. At least when I was around!

Now if this crocodile isn't scary enough, I almost had a heart attack when some guy grabbed one of the alligator by the tail and it jerked it's self around really fast.

     I'm definitely still not a fan of monkeys, but all the kids though the baby monkey was really cute.

   

Here we are on our way back to school. This isn't a very good picture but you can still see the mountains to the right.
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It was a great day just to be able to spend time with my amazing students outside the classroom  and have fun with them!