Adventures: Green Island

I've decided that since I don't really have anything brand new to blog, I will back track and hopefully cover some more of my Taiwan adventures. At the end of the school year we still had to stay within Taiwan for another two weeks so we could get the full tax break. So the first stop was Green Island.

Let me tell you right now that just getting there was an adventure in itself. We had this crazy guy from South Africa telling us that there wasn't a chance in the world that there would be a typhoon and we shouldn't worry about. He also warned us not to get hurt because there was only one doctor on the whole island and he is drunk most of the time. Turns out he was wrong, as you find out later in our little story. He told us a whole bunch of other stuff to but currently it escapes me.

After the South African dude dropped us off at the bus station we had to take an overnight bus to Tainan so we could catch the ferry to the island. The bus had no airconditioning and we were all convinced that we'd die, at least that is what I wanted to do. It was sticky and nasty but we finally woke up only to get on another bus and then on the vomit barge. I won't name any names but most of the party managed to sacrifice some of their breakfast during the voyage to the island. A kind sacrifice, especially since it wasn't required of me. If my memory serves me right we finally got to the hotel and took a nap for some time in order to recover from our night of misery.

After the napping we went to a BBQ and cooked a whole bunch of meat. Not real sure what I ate but I think it tasted pretty decent. We were then forced to sing in front of the Taiwanese people and I wonder what they thought of a bunch of Americans singing in native English, I bet we sounded pretty bad ourselves.

We couldn't go along of course and so six of us shared the two microphones so we could rock out to the Lion Sleeps Tonight. This was also the same song we had to use for the graduation performance. The teachers were kind enough to let me prance around like a lion and chase them with a jump rope. I made a few kids laugh, made little children cry and I'm sure I made other parents consider taking their children out of our program.

That evening Emily and a few other girls were kind enough to do Joseph's hair for him and what a sight to behold. I'll let him do the explanation though. As a sidenote his head was killing him in the morning when he took out the braids.

We did other cool things on the island too, like scuba diving and hottubing in natural salt hotsprings. Jessica and Sara even got a little adventurous and run into a mountain.

Yes sir, the scooter went crazy and they hit the wall. Sara managed to do this to her eye and brake her left arm. Jessica had a whole bunch of skin scraped off and it still isn't fun to talk about cause I get sick.

A bunch of the teachers say sunrises and sunsets cause they enjoyed getting up early. I really enjoy sleeping so I let them take the pictures. But then I felt guilty since I never made the effort to see nature in all its glory so I deleted the photos. But the island was still beautiful and even now I wish I could end up there once again.