Saturday, May 2, 2009

Things We'll Miss About Taiwan

MAILANI
  • The friendly, generous people of Taiwan!
  • Sharing Taiwan with my wonderful GSE team
  • Rotary in Taiwan
  • Eating with chopsticks
  • Awesome fruit
  • Reflexology massages
  • Spur-of-the-moment dancing & karaoke
  • People singing me "Mai Lan Mei Lan"
  • Speaking a little Mandarin, Taiwanese, Hakka
  • Silly t-shirts
  • Adorable Taiwanese schoolkids so excited to see Americans
  • Learning about Chinese superstitions
  • Neon lights everywhere
  • Marveling at the traffic
  • Pretty women who wear very little make-up
  • Calling Rotarians by their titles (DG, PP, CP, etc.)
  • Strangers taking our photos
  • Basu degwaa (fried sweet potatoes)
  • New surprises every day!
JILL
  • Seeing the mountains and the ocean within a few hours of each other
  • The variety of healthy breakfasts
  • Buying shoes
  • Feeling like a Queen
  • Outdoor markets
  • Being the only blonde
  • Singing karaoke & dancing
  • Feeling very safe
  • Getting a lot of pictures taken of us
  • Spas
  • Kampai'ing at noon
  • The variety of food
  • Beautiful flowers & vegetation
  • Tea - cold, hot, dessert, gelatin
JEFF
  • Hot tea
  • Food that's healthy for the body & skin
  • Eating uncooked baby octopus
CHRIS
  • Taiwan Beer
  • Night markets
  • Mister Donuts
  • Fun t-shirts
  • Teaching people American slang
MEAGAN
  • Meeting successful people with diverse careers & backgrounds
  • 7-11
  • Watermelon
  • Bargaining
  • Basu deegwa
  • Staying with different families
  • Seeing cute aborigine children
  • Stinky tofu
  • Bubble tea
  • Karaoke
  • Big Red flashlights

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