This morning my host family and I took the Taiwan High Speed Rail from Taichung to the southern city of Tainan. The total trip time was a little under an hour, as the train is capable of speeds around 300km/h. After arriving in Tainan, we met the Taiwanese Legislative leader Wang Jin-Pyng in the train station (kind of like Taiwan's John Boehner). We weren't able to get a picture with him because he needed to make a train, but my host (Peter) and his mom were quite impressed to see him out and about. In Tainan we shopped at some street stores and a department store before taking a taxi to meet up with some other students and their hosts. We saw a massive tree house which was made into a museum. To combat the humidity of Tainan, we bought some black tea ice cream (it was delicious). Afterwords we went to a gift shop and stopped at a coffee shop to cool down and grab a drink. From there we moved on to a street market, where we bought sunglasses, seafood, candied strawberries and more. After we went our separate ways, I met Peter's grandmother, aunts, uncles, and cousins. We went out for a big dinner consisting of everything from octopus, shrimp, crab eggs, boiled chicken, fruit, and fried scallops (exactly like the US ones) before retiring to Peter's family's house for the night.
Brady Mokrzycki
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