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Sandra's Wulai trip

On Wednesday, July 29th, 2009, we went to Wulai. We ate lunch in a nearby building. Just then I saw a huge labrador wagging his tail and walking towards me. "Oh no!" I thought. "Not this, just because I have 3 dogs at home every dog I see comes to me." then the dog jumped on me, making me fall. "Teacher, help!" I yelled from the top of my lungs. Teacher Mike pulled the dog off my body. "Oh my!" I sighed with relief.

Then we went to the Emerald Dam to throw rocks. Teacher Mike taught us a new trick called"Skipping Rocks". You need to find a flat, round rock, and try to get it spin while throwing, then it bounces from the surface of the water. I tried, but it didn't bounce, instead, with a SPLASH, it sank into the water. Teacher Mike's rock bounced all the way to the other side of the Emerald Dam. "So hard." I muttered.

Then we went to the Shopping Street. We saw small shops where cute little things were sold, but they were too expensive. We couldn't afford it, so we skipped those shops. Instead, we stopped at shops which sold food.

I saw something that caught my eye, a B.B. gun game! It cost $50, "Too expensive I thought, but I didn't care, I put the money on the table, took out a gun and started shooting. Teacher Mike joined me, I got 7 balloons, but teacher only got 4, we added our points, and won a water gun for 11 shots.

Wulai is such a fun city! I hope I could go there again, someday!

Connie Travels To Wulai

We took about one hour to get there. Do you know what we did at first?"You can start to eat you lunch right now!"said Teacher Sophia. I opened my eyes extremely wide."What?~~"said all of the people there. Because it felts like it was just ten 0' clock. But she's the teacher, I must listen to her. I slowy opened the outside wrapper of the veggie roll and I took a huge bite. Gosh! That smells terrible! That tastes terrible! That was terrible! But I was forced to eat it. I almost going to puke, and I secretly threw it into my bag. Please don't tell Teacher Sophia!

Teacher Mike took us to a place with a river near by. And then he taught us how to skip rocks."First , you need to collect some small and flat rocks."said Teacher Mike really loud,"And then do it like this......" Since the other people were playing with the rocks, I was standing there with Teacher Sophia. "I've found this big thing here, I want to get on this!" Said I and wishing Teacher Sophia could say out the word"YES"and not the word of"NO". "It's too dangerous! Don't go up there!" said Teacher Sophia just like sceaming. While she's talking to others I jumped up to the thing that was big and tall. Did you know what I saw? I saw some thin woods and some black and dirty coals! And the most exiciting thing was: I've brought some brand new coals home and nobody knew it!

After a while, Teacher Mike led us to a market street."Now i'll give you a few minutes for free time, i'll wait for you at the bridge of this street! Then Carol, Emmy and I went shopping on the market street together. Just when I marched out the first step they stoped. Carol bought a sausage. At last I bought one too!

I think the trip to Wulai was very fun!

Carol goes to Wulai

On Wednesday July 29, I went to Wulai with my class. We ate veggie rolls and guava for lunch. When we were ready to go, a dog jumped on Sandra and she fell down.We walk across the road and took some pictures.

Next we rode on a little train down to skip rocks. I tried and tried,but I couldn't do it. I think it was very difficult to do that. Then we went to a shopping street to buy things and take pictures. We played a lot too!

Last we went bact to the bus and had lots of fun. I was very confertable so I fell asleep on Emmy's leg. We were still playing when we got back to school.

Fisherman's Wharf

We went to many places, such as the Fisherman's Warf (漁人碼頭). It's beneath the Lover's Bridge(情人橋). The Fisherman's Warf (漁人碼頭) is like a dock, where the boats which sail on the Tanshui River (淡水河) stop. After our visit to the Fisherman's Warf (漁人碼頭) we crossed the Lover's Bridge. It's connected on the two sides on the banks of Tanshui River (淡水河), in case someone wants to cross it.

Tansui Lao Jie

We went to Lao Jie. It's close to the MRT station and it is easy to find the Lao Jie . There are many foods and games so it can let us take lots of fun and picture, but it's hot too. Teacher Sophia bought us a drink called Hyptis. There were four kinds. It was good to drink. Then we went to the station and waited for the school bus. Last we went back to Chuck School.

Tansui

Do you know Tansui? Tansui's a place with many beautiful and colorful flowers and green grass all over the ground. I love Tansui! I know then you guys want to know where we (blue team) went to, right? We went to the famous Fisherman's Wharf and Tansui old street! It was a lot fun! Let me show you how to get there: 1. You can walk there, but it might take a long~~ long~~ time to arrive! 2.You can also go there by MRT. From the Taipei main MRT station to Tansui will take about 36 minutes. 3. I suggest you go there by car. You can stay in the car driving and watch the wonderful scenery at the same time! It will take about one and a half hours from Dahu to Tansui. Let's let the blue team introduce you to some of the places of Tansui !

Who We Are

We are Carol, Sandra and Connie -- students in Chuck School's Travel Blog Camp. We will be traveling to fun places around Taipei and writing about our experiences here. We are the Blue Team. There are four other teams in our camp. Stay tuned for more posts.