Merry Christmas from Taiwan!

Merry Christmas everybody!

This week has been strange and exciting at the same time. We had lots of Rotary meetings and parties for the exchange students. We also have a two weeks break so we don`t have chinese class. On tuesday I usually have my chinese classbut I asked my host mum if I could stay at home, I went to have lunch with two friends, Anna and Charlotte and in the afternoon I went with my mum to paint our nails on a very christmassy style. Since some time ago I want to buy a pair of new shoes so after I went to buy them, they were expensive but they are really prety and comfortable. On wednesday morning I went to school for having lunch with Lisa's classmates, they bought pizza because she's leaving soon. Then we went to a really cool hotel where we had a Christmas Party. We got the chance to meet the Rotary International President and we danced alltogether christmas carrols. When I got home at night my host mum had a present for me, so my host brother did.

Thrusday was Christmas day, so as I always do I spent it in family, it didnt matter if it wasnt my family back in Spain cause I also do love my family here in Taiwan.

Taiwan dosesn`t have Christmas break so on friday I had to go to school. Yesterday we had another 'Christmas Party' where we perfomed for japanese students.

On New Year all the exchange students are going to watch the fireworks at Taipei 101 and the spanish people are going to eat the 12 grapes.

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR TO EVERYONE!

Winter solstice in Taiwan

Yesterday was officially winter here in Taiwan. When I arrived home it smells like incense which I really like. My host mum had been praying because of the winter solstice, she also had two bowls with a kind of balls made of rice, they can have sesame inside too. Apparently they eat them this day and when you do, then you are a year older. It was super curious, so now I'm a year older!

4 meses en Taiwan|| 四個月了在台灣 !

Hoy 22 de diciembre hace 4 meses desde que llegue a Taiwan, es increible lo rapido que puede llegar a pasar el tiempo, lo que se puede llegar a hacer en 4 meses. Antes de empezar mi intercambio sabia que era un año único, que vivias una vida en un año, y que las amistades que se hacen durante este año son para siempre.
Durante estos 4 meses han pasaso muchas cosas, mucha gente ha entrado y salido de mi vida y otras estan ahi desde el principio. Sigue fascinandome como podemos ser tan cercanos, llevarnos tan bien con alguien que solo conocemos hace 4 meses y que puede que al principio no hablásemos.
Despues de 4 meses ya tengo mi grupo de amigos cercanos, los que se que puedo hablar con ellos, que son como yo, que piensan como yo, los que tienen cosas en común.
Ayer mi distrito tuvo un concurso de discursos, teniamos que hablar durante tres minutos en chino, el tema podias elegirlo. Tenían un timbre con el que controlaban el tiempo. Me sentí muy orgullosa porque poder escribir mi discurso en chino, poder hablar en chino cuando llevo aqui 4 meses sin haber estudiando chino antes es un logro para mi. Estaba nerviosa y tenia miedo de que se me olvidase lo que tenia que decir y me lleve el papel al escenario, por eso quedo un poco mal porque tambien contaban si leias o no. Pero yo estoy orgullosa igual. En alrededor de un mes tambien cambiaré de familia. Estoy triste por dejar mi familia actual porque creo que mi madre y yo tenemos muy buena relación, pero tambien contenta por ver como sera vivir en mi nueva familia.
La Navidad aqui no se celebra, no tienen vacaciones, van al colegio el 24/25/31. En las casas rara vez se ven decoraciones y es por eso que no parece Navidad.
No me apetecia escribir en ingles porque mi cabeza esta saturada de chino e inglés. Ayer Lisa me dijo que le gustaba mi acento y que cree que mi ingles es muy bueno... NO PUEDO EXPLICAR MI CARA DE FELICIDAD CUANDO LO DIJO!!!! porque estar aqui con americanos, canadienses, australianos e incluso europeos que hablan ingles perfecto te hace pensar que si de verdad los años que has estudiado ingles han servido para algo -_-.
No se que mas decir solo queria escribir por los 4 meses
Bye bye

Day 101 in Taipei

Hi everyone! Day 101 was maybe 2 weeks ago(?) But as I always forget to post and day 101 was pretty cool I wanted to write something on this blog. So basically in the morning I went to the hospital to see how my foot was going, (is slowly getting better thanks) and then because I wasn't  going to school I spent the full fay with my mum (love her). She took me to Shilin where there's is a park full of flowers. The flowers were there since November 1st so as it was the end of November there weren't as many as before but I did like it anyway.
More important things!
I started a Youtube channel with a french girl at my school, not sure if we are going to film more videos, but you can watch the first one cause it's very funny! (I leave the link at the end)
On Tuesday I recieved my Christmas box that my mum sent me. It was full of FOOD and clothes. What else could I ask for? Haha
On the same day I met another spanish girl, Lola, who lives in a town not too far from Taipei (sorry but I don't remember the name) I took her to Taipei 101 to buy a advent calendar
The weather is finally getting a bit colder, they don't have heaters so inside places it's colder than outside. Now everything looks more christmassy. There's a Christmas Village in Banqiao, it's very pretty at night, it has a lot of lights so it looks beautiful. Christmas here is nothing so I miss it a lot because I'm like a little kid at Christmas :(
So that's it for this week, thanks for reading bye bye!

Ver "Our First YouTube Video! || Exchange Student" en YouTube - Our First YouTube Video! || Exchange Student: http://youtu.be/VBX97DPNivU

A bit late but 3 MONTHS IN TAIWAN!!!!!

Hello everybody! Last saturday was 22nd of november which means I've been in Taiwan for 3 months. I honestly can't believe I've been here for 3 months. I don't have too much to say because I've been at home for 2 weeks because I injured my feet. But even if I stayed at home for two weeks, the best thing is that I got closer to my host mum. She cares a lot about me and she doesn't want me to feel pain, she took me to the doctor and she is always there for me. During this past weeks I also realized that I'm able to talk chinese! (I know I said this before but I'm just so proud) I can chat with my mum and talk about lots of things, of course I have to say some things in english but we try our best to speak in chinese.
On sunday we have the district's country fair where we have to talk about our countries to the future exchange students from Taiwan so they can choose a host country.
Lucia, Sara and I are going to talk about Spain, the culture, the language and abour our lifes there so we thought it could be great if they can try spanish food. So tomorrow we are going to try our best to cook some spanish dishes.
Next weekend I'm going to Taichung with my Rotary Club for the weekend, I'm really looking forward to go because my mum told me is a beautiful city. 
I have lots of pictures and videos that I want to post here but I'm very lazy to upload them to my laptop. So I was thinking that maybe I could create a youtube channel to share everything with the world but I don't know yet.
So yeah, that's all for the moment! Bye xx
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5vblgCs-Dg&app=desktop

A little update

Hello everyone!
Today's a relaxing day at home, quite boring too. Yesterday I went to see the doctor because my feet hurt since long time ago. So I had tendinitis and the doctor gave me lots of pills. It hurts me a lot when I walk so today and tomorrow I'm going tk stay at home. My time here is being amazing, in 10 days is going to be 3 months since I arrived and now I can say I'm feeling great here, I'm improving a lot in chinese and I'm able to talk with my family a little of chinese. Today has been raining during all the day and I love it because that means winter is coming!
I have learnt lots of things about Taiwan and it's culture so far and I hope I can learn more. I LOVE TAIWAN!  ❤

2 months in Taiwan!!!

Yesterday was 2 months since I arrived Taiwan. I'm happy because is such and amazing, beautiful and lovely country but I'm sad at the same time because time flies! In this two months I am already able to talk, speak and read a bit of chinese (and I'm so proud of it because before coming I couldnt speak a word of chinese)
School here is so hard, I'm glad I don't need to study in Taiwan. All the exchange students have become a family, I really like it because we are here for the same things and I know I can talk to them about everything. My host family is really nice, I really enjoy spending time with my host mum (I hope she does too) and they always try to help we to learn more chinese, they also took me to a lot of places around Taipei. My classmates showed me lots of places too, even if they are quite inmature (because they are 15/16 but they think and behave like 13 years old kids) I think this is really nice because it's good to make taiwanese friends too!
The other exchange students at my school are awesome! I have lots and lots of fun when I'm with them.

 It was the second time I went to this mountain but everytime I discover new landscapes. I love it

 One of the trips that I did with my classmates was hiking! We went to Elephant mountain, there you can see a beautiful view of Taipei, so we went at night and it was even more beautiful than a during the day.

 Some of my chinese class classmates, they were playing a brazilean game that ends in red hands for the players... really painful game.

 Having dinner at Tamsui with our rotary trip advisor (VICI) The exchange students are Anna from Denmark, Lorien from Canada and me.

 Lisa Pizza Chan took Margaux and I to CKS Memorial Hall, it's amazing and big and beautiful. So as always, I took some pictures!

 My classmates took me to a Typical taiwanese puppets museum next to my school

 Some japanese students came to my school for a day last week, they organice an event for them with some perfomances and Margaux and I went to see it

 Selfies with my classmates and the japanese students!

This picture was from the first week in Taiwan! (not sure if I posted it before, but I like it so)