After School

Charlene teacher brought me to Zhongli :) Zhongli is probably about 15 - 20 minutes minutes drive from Taoyuan/Neili. I reckon Zhongli is quite similar to Xi Men Ding. (Maybe a little bit smaller)

Charlene teacher's main mode of transport = scooter. In Taiwan, riding a scooter (smaller version of a motorbike) is very common.  It was my first time travelling on a scooter... I'm not a very adventurous person so I was actually very very very scared. There were so many scooters on the road and some parents had 2 children on their scooter...!! Amazing skills.

Charlene teacher brought me to at a very nice BBT cafe. I think it was a 10 minutes ride from Nei Ding Elementary School (內定國小) which is also 10 minutes away from Zhongli. I was glad we stopped halfway to grab a drink :)

After chatting and finishing up our BBT, we went to Zhongli. Shopping at Zhongli was awesome!!! The things there were quite similar to Xi Men Ding and they are cheaper too! In Taiwan (items with no price tag on), you have to haggle/bargain with the sales person. I was terrible at haggling because everything in Zhongli was already very cheap to me (as compared to things in Perth)... So Charlene teacher helped me to get a better deal haha. I bought 6 shoes on that day! I think it was less than AUD$10 for a pair?

Thank you Charlene teacher for shopping with me :)

Mr Lin (my host father) was going to pick me up from Neili train station at 9:30pm but I arrived at 10:30pm! Zhongli is only 1 train station from Neili but I took the wrong train and my train was going towards Hsin Chu. Glad that I got off in time. I was so tired the next morning tho... I have to wake up 6:30am every morning as school starts at 7:30am.

Next post; Jingle bells!

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