Taichung weekend

This was the first of, I hope, many fun weekends spent with my two new teacher friends. One is Rochelle, the woman who works in the big town near me, and the other is Lyneice, the Detroit big-city gal who is up in the mountains with the aborigines. It was good for all of us to get together and compare notes.

I hitched a ride to Douliou with one of the teachers here on Friday after school. Met up with the one friend and we took a train to Taichung. The trip lasted about an hour and the only stress was buying the ticket, getting on the right train and making sure we got off in the right place. We had some trouble finding where our other friend was staying and never did meet up with her that night. Next day, though, we had a great reunion and began a day and a half of shopping, talking, laughing and eating good food. The woman from the mountains has not been in a store at all since we saw her last -- it's even an hour to any place she can buy food. All in all a fun weekend, but didn't really have anything to do with Taichung. There are some very famous temples, etc, there so we will have to go back.

Taichung is the third largest city in Taiwan and noticeably more expensive than my little backwater. (sorry, I mean pastoral rural village). We will make sure to enjoy the place more next time.