These are a few pictures from last Sunday. Megan, Allen, Alex, Dawn and our Chinese tutor, Bobo with her family went to a Buddhist temple in the mountains outside of Taipei.
Me with my fellow English teachers and Bobo with her husband Jack and daughters Jamie and Joyce. Her kids are two of the cutest Taiwanese girls you will ever meet.
At this time of year the cherry blossoms are in bloom and when a breeze hits the tree all the flowers drift to the ground. The Taiwanese call it white snow! I guess this is a popular time to go as it was crazy busy. The temple gives out a free Buddhist lunch. Men and women eat separately. We all had to sit on benches facing one direction and eat out of small metal bowls. The lunch comprised of rice, tofu with bamboo shoots, mashed squash with a mystery vegetable and some gai-lan. If you didnt finish every last morsel they put a ladle of water into your bowl, swished it around and then made you drink it! Thankfully I made sure to eat every last grain of rice to avoid this. It was a truly Taiwanese experience.
Me on the mountain walk. Bobo put the cherry blossoms in my hair. I let her kids decorate it further with some fern fronds.
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