February 5, 2011 SUNDAY

I woke up really early today to go to my dad's company's trip. I feel sad that I've came to my dad's company's trip because I will miss the class speech and debate on Monday. I'm sad... However, I'm also happy because the trip had been awesome from the start in the early morning. We first went to Yang - Ming - Shan Park, then to an awesome restaurant that seemed like heaven, then to a dead - volcano where we saw yellow gooey stuff and smelled funny things, after that, we went to Shan - hsia old street, it was fantastic! I bought a croissant ice cream, I know it sounds weird, but yes, it's an ice cream where croissants replace the ice cream cones... So there you go, a croissant ice cream. After that we went to our hotel and got ready for dinner. I couldn't believe my eyes when I stepped into our hotel room. It seemed like a real "house" in the woods, there was a living room, a dinning table, two rooms with two beds each and a bathroom in both bedrooms, there were also 3 TV', one in the living room, and one in each bedroom. It seemed like heaven, but we could only stay there one night. Anyways, during dinner tonight, I performed two violin pieces, and dressed up as half terminator and half Edward Scissorhands. We played a lot of games but lost a game a got punished by being forced to drink a jar of pure lemon juice without sugar, honey, water, or soda. My team and I together had to finish that jar of extremely sour lemonade in 1 minute, or else there would be another punishment. I finished 1 and a half cup of lemonade in time with my team, but soon had a stomach ache that I almost couldn't bare. However, later in the second game where we used chopsticks to carry green beans to a tray across the stage, my team won, and the opposing team had to eat hot chillies!!! I loved my day spent here in Taipei, and I look forward to tomorrow's activity.