29th to 31st May

29^th to 31^st May

Between last week and this week not a lot happened or should I say nothing worth mentioning.

This past weekend was quite exciting as it was our second trip with the Humber students and we ventured off to Taipei for the weekend.

We left the school at 7:30am and arrived at our Taipei destination around 14:30.  This was the area of ‘Pingxi Street’, which is in the northern part of Taipei and well known for releasing paper balloons.  We spent a good hour and half there while the students assembled their own personal balloon then released it.

It was then off to Chiufen Village Old Street, which is an area that is one of the oldest in the city and the street is or should I say should be, a pedestrian street.  Perhaps the width could be 3 metres and very winding up and down the hillside.  Quite unique indeed and this is where we had some dinner.

Off to Taipei 101 for a spectacular night view of the city.  It was a clear night so the viewing was good.

The following day was filled with many activities and by the end, I think the students were exhausted and I say this because it showed in their movement the following morning…hahah

One of the highlights was Sunday morning when we made a change in our itinerary and I recommended to the tour guide we take the gondola and go up Makgong.  I was there last February when my sister visited during Chinese New Year.

The weather in the morning was overcast and humid and looked like rain as the dark cloud passed over.

The ‘hiccup’ in the venture was when the gondola shut down due to lightening.  Now we need to take a bus down the mountain but by this time, the buses were running regular schedule (1 every 15 minutes).  This put at least a 1 hour delay in our itinerary schedule.  Because of this delay, we didn’t make any stops going back to Kaohsiung because by this time it was already around 2pm.

We arrived Kaohsiung around 9pm Sunday night.  It was a great weekend.