Thursday, March 21, 2013

Odds and Ends

Some pictures from my week!

                          
Hai Chien (my main school) at a distance.

The portable library that comes on Mondays.

Here are some of the students clearing up leaves.

                                 
 Here is a small temple. There is a a very famous big temple in the downtown area the name of which escapes me. Some nights, especially weekends I can here the noise of the drums and other instruments  used in temple music.

The flowering trees over here are so pretty!
                                 
Orchids at a flower shop the director and one of the  
teachers from Hai Chien brought Gem and I to.

 Alex (teacher) and the flower shop owners

more orchids

This is the plant they bought for me. 
Later, Gem informed me that it reminded her of a marijuana plant.
hahaha!

We also visited a famous bakery.
                                             
The name of the bakery I assume.
                                 
This is what they got Gem and I from the bakery, the oddest of which include green bean roll, man cake, wife cake, and sweet bean and cheese cake.  
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Statement: This was a very odd and disconnected post.
I am now packing to spend the weekend in Nantou with another team while Gem goes on a team leader's retreat. I will probably write another post about my weekend on Monday.


7 comments:

  1. Yum. Those bakeries can have odd stuff sometimes but they also tend to be the home of some AMAZINGLY delicious foods. HAVE FUN IN NANTOU!!! I TOTALLY wish I could go with you and show you around! You'll just have to explore with the girls yourself. :D

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  2. Man cake? wife cake?! What in the world?! that's weird. Cool plants though. We still have lots of snow. :(

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  3. I know right! they said wife cake is supposed to make you beautiful, and man cake makes you wise. very odd...
    I tried the bean and cheese cake last night. It was interesting... To sweet and beany tasting.

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    1. Ooh bring me a man cake. I wouldn't mind being a little wiser.... (c:

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  4. I have never seen a portable library! That is soo cool! And I'm with Jem, Man and Wife cake? Thats hilarious! :D

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  5. Those flowers are gorgeous! They look like azaleas?
    It's so neat that the kids help clean up--with smiles, too!
    Looking forward to your post from the weekend!

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  6. Lol! Jem, you crack me up. But I agree...those are some pretty weird looking deserts!

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