Monday, April 05, 2004
Kending.
We stayed at a hotel opposite Sail Rock, hired scooters... I showed them my out of date triangle cut out of top suspended Australian driver's license and said it worked for motorbikes too. We went on a beautiful drive up to a surfing beach called Jia Le Shui. The French girls aren't really into the beach. They think having sand all over your legs is dirty. I also discovered they are kind of vulgar, every second word is putin, merde, salloppe... I think my French really improved in Kending. They like to eat in style though.
The weather was good on Sunday. I sunbaked with Elisabeth then hitchhiked to Gaohsiung. Hitchhiking is funny here because people driving in the opposite direction turn around to stop and ask you where you're going out of curiosity. People just stop to save you face. So anyway this old couple took me on a scenic drive along the south west coast and up to Lin Yuan where I got a bus to Gaohsiung. There were more beaches and this part of Taiwan is alot different to the rest of it. It was beautiful.
On Saturday night we snuck into an R&B party on the beach which was lame but I ended up staying till the sun rose and talking to this guy who was suffering an anxious come down and saying that half the people on the beach were undercover cops which may have been true but at 5 in the morning would they really bother? So anyway he used to be part of a cult and his Chinese was native speaker level. He just kept shaking and panting and sweating and I felt bad for him.
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We stayed at a hotel opposite Sail Rock, hired scooters... I showed them my out of date triangle cut out of top suspended Australian driver's license and said it worked for motorbikes too. We went on a beautiful drive up to a surfing beach called Jia Le Shui. The French girls aren't really into the beach. They think having sand all over your legs is dirty. I also discovered they are kind of vulgar, every second word is putin, merde, salloppe... I think my French really improved in Kending. They like to eat in style though.
The weather was good on Sunday. I sunbaked with Elisabeth then hitchhiked to Gaohsiung. Hitchhiking is funny here because people driving in the opposite direction turn around to stop and ask you where you're going out of curiosity. People just stop to save you face. So anyway this old couple took me on a scenic drive along the south west coast and up to Lin Yuan where I got a bus to Gaohsiung. There were more beaches and this part of Taiwan is alot different to the rest of it. It was beautiful.
On Saturday night we snuck into an R&B party on the beach which was lame but I ended up staying till the sun rose and talking to this guy who was suffering an anxious come down and saying that half the people on the beach were undercover cops which may have been true but at 5 in the morning would they really bother? So anyway he used to be part of a cult and his Chinese was native speaker level. He just kept shaking and panting and sweating and I felt bad for him.
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