Field Trip to 小人國!

I really didn't get a break from school all summer as I got (had) to go to Mandarin classes! Having class all summer can be rough-- especially when all of your friends are on vacation. So we my class decided to spice things up and we did a variety of activities and took some field trips.

One of our field trips was to "Window On China" (小人國） a very eclectic park in Taoyuan County. I'd never been anyplace like it before! It was fun taking lots of silly pictures with all the mini-statues. Even better were the water rides and small amusement park in the "second" half of the park.

We made lots of good memories that day, including:

1) Small children staring at me (some of them cried when I tried to say "hello"!), but the Junior High School students were so curious! They tried to guess where we were all from (few of them guessed successfully!) But everyone said our Mandarin Teacher, Annie, was definitely from Thailand. She is Taiwanese!

2) My Korean classmate, Nancy, teaching me how to correctly imitate Buddha with the "Give me money" hand gesture!

3) Getting soaked on the log ride--- drying out in the HOT HOT HOT sun, and then going back and getting soaked again!

It was such a fun day! And definitely made having to go to school all summer bearable!

小人國