Our routine every day usually consists of waking up at around 6:30 or 7, getting ready, walking to the hospital, hospital till 4 pm, then finding food for dinner and then being exhausted back at the dorm, then bed. The weekend is our free time however! So this weekend we went to the night market here in Tainan. We met some friends while there! They were med students around our age, 21 or so, and they were all from Taiwan but were in the 'English Club' at their school. They were with a white guy from washington state, he's the leader of this 'club'. We ended up pairing up with this group and playing a scavenger hunt with them at the night market. We had to take a weird picture, win a game at the market (they have games like a carnival), and eat something weird. The 4 taiwanese kids Rachel and I were paired with were very nice and loved showing us around. They even bought us stinky tofu to try. Afterwards two of the girls got mine and Rachel's email so we could stay in contact. ha!
Friday morning was nice, we had some time to upload pictures, write emails, blog, and go to the gym. We met up with everyone at 11:30 to take taxi's to Anping, home of a former dutch colony. We toured Anping's attractions such as the Fort and a museum there. While there, we noticed they rented bikes.... what! We HAD to take advantage! Sooo with some discussion we decided we would rent the bikes and try to bike over to the beach which we saw wasn't too far away. This was quite exciting- getting the bikes, pedaling through the streets of Taiwan, biking along side the river, It was VERY cool. The breeze from going fast on a bike was wonderful too since the sun was so strong that day. We started biking around 2:30 and biked till 5 that evening where we ended our bike ride at the 'Tree House'- a house entangled by the tree's roots/branches-very phenomenal. After walking back to a street market we found in Anping and shopping around for a bit, where some of the girls bought souvenirs to take home, we caught a taxi back home.
That day alone was tiring! I felt like I did so much that day. My body was exhausted. Sleep was awesome.
Today is Saturday, I slept in this morning till 8. This is not normal for me! Usually I wake up at 5 or 6 ... due to jet lag. So the fact I slept in was surprising. Our plans today ... We will be going to Kaohsiung with some of the nurses today. It's still pretty early right now, we're not meeting until 11:15 sooo we'll see how today goes! I can tell you that I will be exhausted by the end of this month, we just keep going and going!
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