Taipeh Impressions Part II

Good morning and welcome (again? :) ) to our little blog!

I am sorry for the delay on this sequel of my trip to Taipeh, but today I will continue to introduce further lovely sights in and around Taipeh that I visited during my stay there.

Taipeh Impressions Part I

Hi again everyone!

Today I want to tell you about my trip to Taipeh last weekend. This time I can especially address those among you who prefer to look at pictures and like to skip text, since I got a few nice shots to share with you!

My trip was an amazing experience, thanks to a good friend and her family who hosted me, showed me around the city and literally even gave me a ride to what might have been the rim of the world, haha. But more about that later.

I have so many impressions to share that I think I am going to split this into two, or maybe even three posts, so wait for more.

The world after Christina: Typhoon arriving.

Here we go again - my post number two!

I hope I did not leave you guys hanging for too long... I just decided to double my efforts in writing these paragraphs, since our dear boss Tina just revealed an interesting train of thoughts to me. Namely, that male individuals supposedly face more troubles writing about their emotions and experiences than females. I deliberately took this inspiring idea as a hint that I should do something about the hunger for entertainment of you all. :D

Now that Christina is gone the farm feels like a completely different place. Though we have only known each  other for two weeks, I sense that a great buddy has just left. And not only that, my mentor as well! At this point I would like to express my appreciation for the great introduction Christina gave me to everything and everybody around here. Thank you!

My little knowledge of Chinse might be a big help to me, but who is going to do all the designing and creative work now?!

Be it to my liking or not, I guess I have to try discovering all the programs and functions to do all that on my own. It seems like from now on I am going to benefit more from my work here than I could possibly have anticipated before.

Currently, the farm is comparitively derserted, as many visitors have cancelled their reservations for these days after a warning of a major typhoon arriving on Thursday had been published. Maybe it is just me being oversensitive, but I think I felt some nervousness in the air today in the morning. However, according to the latest news the typhoon has slowed down a great deal and is now believed to arrive at nighttime or on Friday.

While people on the farm are mostly waiting for the typhoon to pass by, annoyed by the effects of it drawing nearer, I for my part am actually a little excited to experience the first typhoon in my life.

Although I suspect that afterwards I will be just as annoyed by and nervous about future typhoons, I still cannot help my excitement in these moments.

I just hope that this typhoon will not undermine my plans to go to Taipeh this Saturday and explore the secrets of Taiwan's heart.

During the last couple of days, we had many activities and visited several places, all of which, in fact, were really fun and beautiful. But it is also nice to have some unhurried hours like today and I am going to indulge in that now.

So thanks for reading and hope to welcome you again to our blog (now it's all MINE! :D)

Niklas

Time FLIES! Goodbye Taiwan and Toucheng Farm

I will not be able to describe how I feel about my 7 weeks here. There is so many things that I am thinking about now. It is impossible to get all of that down on paper. I have had the greatest time here in Taiwan and I feel envious that Niklas gets to stay longer :D Of course I am looking forward to seeing my friends and family again, but I would rather wish for everyone to come here :D

I want to share some pictures and impressions from my trip...

Hi there, this is Niklas from Germany!

Hey everybody!

I am Niklas from Germany and the "new" intern at Toucheng Leisure Farm. Although I have been here for 10 days already, this is my first post on our blog. Now why did it take me so long to publish it?

Bye bye Toucheng Leisure Farm, see you next time(?) !

The end of my internship has come. 

Almost 7 weeks, exactly 47days.

Dozens new people met, hundreds new flavours tasted, 

thousands impressions experienced,

unknown but enormous amount of new abilities learnt.

And I still want more!

Going out in Yilan

Hey all

Yesterday we went out for dinner in Yilan with some of the people from the farm. We always appreciate very much when the farm's staff take us anywhere because it is always an adventure and also nice to meet new people and so on. We went to a restaurent, which is owned by a friend of one of the farm's staff. It was a really pleasant experience! I guess maybe we got the VIP treatment since we were friends with the owner but everybody was really nice and it seemed like everyone there was really satisfied with their meals and drinks. Yup, drinks! The restaurent is in fact also a bar after 22.00. Therefore they also had a wide variety of alcohol i all shapes and sizes! :) Oh and the food! My God! So great. I always take the opportunity to eat something different than Chinese because we get so much Chinese food here, and I am starting to miss the Western touch :D Although I was a little jealous of the hot pot dinner of one the others :D But my spaghetti was awesome too!! :)

We also tried very very pink drinks and they tasted a little like grape! It was really cool! Of course we were not drinking all night since we have work today :) But as you can see on the picture, they had quite a big bar in the background :) I have forgotten the name of the place, but I will get back to you on that one :) 

Love, Christina

A regular day at the office :D

Black peanuts

Red pitaya or dragon fruit

....And then you get all kinds of treats just sitting here working :D

A trip to Tom's World with the kids

Hi everyone!

I really want to share my experience at the game hall "Tom's World". I went with two lovely kids, the farm owner's grandkids. At first I didn't really know where we were going, because I have never heard of Tom's World. But after som inquiries to the kids I though I had an idea of what I was going to experience but you never know :D

Dance show in Yilan and nightmarket

This friday we went to Yilan to see a dance show.

Hot Spring in Jiaoxi

So the other day we went to the hot spring in Jiaoxi! It was really a great experience. Firstly when I tried to get in it was waaaay to hot. But then I realized that it was because I was trying to get in really close to where the hottest water actually was. So I moved away from it, and then it was more to my liking. After some time it was also possible for me to go to the hotter places... I guess you just need some time to get used to it.

Kasia leaving Toucheng Leisure Farm...

.... but on sunday Niklas from Germany will arrive!

I have already stayed here at the farm for 4 weeks and that meant a goodbye to Kasia this tuesday. Spending 4 weeks in her presence I must say that my room now seems juuust a little too big! But none the less, the people here at the farm are really awesome and everyone really cares about how I am or feel - so that feels awesome. I had the opportunity to accompany Kasia to Taipei and even though a typhoon has been making life in Taiwan a little difficult, we spent two almost three days experiencing Taipei - both sightseeing and nightlife! And I must say: Taipei is really a city worth seeing!

Karaokeee!

A couple of days ago we went for a goodbye dinner for Kasia with people from the farm! The food was really awesome and they had one of those turn-tables where you can share all the food that you order. It is a really cool way to eat I think - very social! :) I like it!