Best Part... MISSED THE TRAIN!

Ok!! So long story short, some how we managed to arrange a trip to JAPAN!!!!! I was so excited! We arrived Friday and are staying in Fukoka Japan, in the South. We are staying with a friend of Joys and Family. They are a very sweet family. We went to the meeting on Friday, and it was so coooooool ... yes I commented... I think I said something about... Gods kingdom. I met so many Japanese sis.bros. One of the Highlights was the Mic.s. There are no brothers passing them around, instead there are various mics spread around the audotorium and they sit in a little bag. And who ever sits by it passes it on to the person commenting. You gotta see a pic... umm...maybe I will post it next week. I am using the family computer... apparently the outlet voltage is not the same around here xD oh my!
Ok so now to the good part. We all decided to some Holland Village Park (kind of like an amusement park, entertainment full of flowers place). If you know me, you know that I am not CRAZY about flowers... yes they are pretty and all... but I dont need to see miles of them for an incredible sum. I think it would be more fun for couples. They had a couple of movies in like a SUPER awesome IMax type thing where the screen opens up on ceiling and all four wall... it was so pretty ... so we only saw 2... and then they closed. So we walked around... and I was really starting to regret coming to Holland Park or whatever its called. Oh yeah so we had to take a train about 2 hours time to get to Naji..something. So we had to make it back to the train station by 8:45... pplwere shopping and they realized we had 10 min to get back to train station... so we RAN RAN RAN like crazy *Finally some ACTION!* It was such a rush!... but we missed it literally by a hair. Of course I had no clue what to do so I just sat back and watched what happened.. and took pics. So for some reason we got on the very next train... I knew we shouldnt have.. but I was not about to sit there by myself. So they realized we were on the wrong train... and got off at the very next stop BIG MISTAKE... it was in the middle of nowhere... no one in sight but the 6 of us. AIYO!!!!!!! what to do?... first they panicked! and then Joy lightened up the mood... the 2 sisters were scared though. I on the other hand was excited muahaha hoping to see something else cool... or atleast be stranded and have some good story to tell.. I took pics of everything.. battery died eventually though. How i will recharge? i dunno... so we got on the next train..last train that would come by... we switched a couple of other trains and by that time it was about 10:30 or something ... Barely anyone out... (I have a mission of finding out where all the people are... I havnt seen that many around.... they arent that many at that holland thing.) Finally we got on a really nice train with leather comfy seats... I think word spread amongst the conductors and they all helped us... so that last train was like buisness class or something... anyways. So it finally looked like we would be home soon. NOOoooooo.. the train made a stop at a station and took longer than normal and there was an announcement informing the passengers that ... there had been an accident... sadly another train up the tracks hit a bicyclist... and they were looking for the bicyle... (u can assume what happened to the person) So we sat there for another hour... all in all ... it is about 1:30 and we are finally home. WHAT AN ADVENTURE! I glad i went to the Holland thingy village whatever that place is called.

Fishing

Well actually... I just went to look... Apparently only the brothers fish... I asked if i could do it but a sis said the Net was too heavy... They don't know how good I am at lifting things! Here are some pics.

Some other Pics

Ok so this is a pic of the friends receiving direction in cleaning up and finishing up some details at the NEW Hualien Kingdom Hall... It was very HOT that day... The Group pic is of Lunch at some fancy hotel after Sunday Public talk... All the friends were so nice! and friendly! on bro could speak english... So cool we could communicate no problem ... except he kept bringing up the zhuliugan (swine Flu)

Not So Cali..

On Friday Morning I was instructed to awaken the Aili and take her to Mc'D and then to the Train Station.. boy that would have been easier if she actually woke up. Let's just say she is not a morning person... So finally she got up like around 11 or something like that and we headed out. and BOY was I HUNgry. We stopped by 7-11 and picked up some snacks .. (I don't recommend the HotDog- weaner on a stick)the boiled egg is ok... actually pretty good. And the lunch box on the train ... not all that. So I headed to Hualien along with Aili and her aunt. Train was freezing ... and I had a headache, did I mention it was super HOT outside. Anyways.. headache would not go away so I tried sleeping it off... finally arrived to train station Yang dixiong picked us up and took us to Joy's house and as soon as I arrived I went to sleep... woke up just in time for dinner and then run to meeting... meanwhile head still hurt. By the way That was the last meeting at the old kingdom hall in Hualien. The next day... Saturday... me and Joy went to help clean the new kingdom hall ... really pretty. (head still hurt) and we came back home about 1 hour later... and they were all convinced that I had heat stroke... I dunno if I really did.. but Joy's sister hit me with a rock a couple of times... (massage) Surprisingly I had no headache... for a while ... it came back though. Sunday was a good day... went to meeting at new kingdom hall and AC was not on yet.. so all we had were windows.. it was pretty horridly hot! but bearable.. felt like we were in a sauna with another 180 people. The other congregation had their meeting the night before and could not even open the windows b/c of mosquito's ... Ouch!

Some Pics

4月19日- Danshui

These are Some Danshui Pics... Click on the pic to see more.

Time is Running out!

Ok so after the Crocs incident.... I am hesitant to leave my shoes outside the door. >.< On Sunday night we stopped at Liu Jiemeis home and joined a small jiaowang in the basement... it was pretty cool they have Kareoke and a pool and pingpong and theatre and a mess load of other things there. Let's just say I am not as thrilled by Kareoke anymore... or atleast when people are super serious about it ha ha... I'm glad for those sound proof walls. After that Sandy and I headed over to Taibei... (she never sleeps at night) We went to a memmorial for that kat chet fella ... The one who lead some Chinese people to Taiwan and then he went back to China. yeah that one. It was kinda like the Lincoln memorial but cooler. There are some auditoriums that look like old Chinese Palaces... when we arrived there was a crew taking down some stages and stuff... I was Like OH NO I MISSED A REALLY GOOD CONCERT! or something,... but we were nosey and found out it was some Buddhist thing where a whole bunch of people showered themselves or something... Ok Let me put some pics up. (Joy's brother let her borrow this really cool thing where you hook it up to the comp and you are hooked up to internet no matter where you are on the world... its about the size of a flash drive... anyways here we go)

Zaijian

Mystery of the missing Croc's!

Ok so last night we were leaving to meet a sister at her home, so we exited the apt. and went to put on our shoes. The shoes are usually left out right outside the door, everybody does it, SERIOUSLY. So it is assumed that it is a perfectly ok spot for shoes. Well as I went to put on my comfy black crocs that I refuse to pay for, but got for free... they weren't there!? WHAT IN THE WORLD!? I know it's CRAZY!!!!!!! So now I have to search every floor (11 of them)I guess since they don't really matter especially since they were free,... and that means I can buy something else to replace them in my luggage on the trip back... but at this point "It's the Chase" I am playing detective, and Sandy is my assisstant! Ok that's all... Good Day