I was supposed to post this journal earlier if there was not a typhoon coming last week. (Since there was a typhoon I just stayed home watching movies instead. Oh my day off…) Anyway I felt like I had not taken some trips for a while, so I woke up at six this morning even if I just slept about only five hours yesterday.
Neiwan Drawbridge
Finally! After three months working, finally I can spend some time taking a small trip and updating this column! Hahaha!
Well, this time I went to Fushan Botanical Garden in Yilan with my family. We were quite lucky because application was required one month earlier if anyone wanna visit it. My mom started booking it like two months earlier!
Mountain climbing has now become one of my day-off activities since, well, since I found that weekends and holidays are scarce after I started working. There are so many things good about Taiwan─the convenience stores where you can find anywhere, or the food (but it is another story). You would also find that the mountains are everywhere, just around you, even if you are in the city.
On the top of Jinmian Mountain
Well, I have found something odd, that the more work I have in weekdays, the more fun I want to have in weekends. Probably it is just because I am stuck in the office from Monday to Friday, staring at the computer. I thought I would prefer staying home, but not, actually.
I had not realized that I knew nothing of my hometown until one day my professor said one thing in class. “Stop telling your foreign friends to go to Taipei 101 anymore,” he said, “what’s so good about it?” It was a course about English Nature Writing and my professor shared his abundant mountain climbing experiences in Taiwan. “There is so much to tell of Taiwan’s mountains.”
Xiaoyoukeng, Yangminshan National Park
