Hello Taipei!

This last Monday, Gem and I headed up to Taipei (the capital of Taiwan) for a three day teachers meeting held by HTC, our sponsor group.  

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Afterward, we spent Thursday and Friday sightseeing around the city with two of the other teams!

The meeting was great, despite the lack of enthusiasm shown in this picture.

 Monday evening a bunch of us went to one of the many night markets in Taipei.

Taipei - notice the mountains in the back round.

                                        A group of us took a gondola up to one of the mountains.

                                              Definitely one of the highlights of my week!

An amazing view from the gondola.

We got to do some hiking at the top.

Here's a picture of a very cool modern bridge I visited.

I really have no idea why it's called the Love Bridge.

There's always room for a selfy!

Another highlight of the week was visiting Taipei 101.

The world's 3rd tallest building!

   

                                                     Equipt with the world's fastest elevator.

The observation deck didn't open until 11:00 so my team mate Gem suggested some trick photography.

Sadly, it was cloudy and rainy when we reached the top. 

Guess that elevator wasn't quite fast enough. lol

Check out that huge awesome world globe.

Obviously I thought it was really cool.

                                                                           Taiwan!

I was really excited when I found an Indian food restaurant inside the mall.

Don't get much of that round here!

One last picture of Taipei 101

I also visited this other famous memorial place that I don't remember the name of. Hehe!

Here are a pictures I took there.

This building held a very large statute of the first president of Taiwan.

pictured below

The changing of the guards, which happens every hour, yet is still a very elaborate ceremony.

So I had a very fun and crazy busy week in Taipei. 

It was great meeting and getting to know the other teachers while gaining advice and encouragement in the teaching aspect of things.

However, it's definitely nice being back in Dajia again.

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Thanks for reading!

 I hope this post wasn't too boring.