Friday morning/afternoon, I was running errands around Taipei and I came across a Filipino grocery store, which strangely gave me the comfort of home. Then I met up with a friend at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum where we walked around and took notes for an assignment in our Art in Taiwan class. The Fine Arts Museum was very interesting; one of the exhibits that we focused on were based on contemporary artists who portrayed traditional Chinese art in an innovative manner. One of my favorite pieces was a series of landscape paintings that were actually made out of pins sticking out of the canvas, where the different dimensions of the original painting were portrayed by the depth of the pin in the canvas. It was really cool.
I had promised a friend from Church that I would watch The Avengers with her, so on Friday night, she, Kevin, Thibaut and myself went to watch it (this time in 2D). Plus I realized that I got to watch the movie twice before many people back in the States had the chance to watch it once, which felt pretty cool :]. It was a nice way to spend a Friday night.
Since midterms are over, we've realized that our weekends are limited and time is suddenly passing so quickly. But luckily, this past weekend was absolutely wonderful. The weather was beautiful, finally sunny, not too hot and humid, and no rain in the forecast. So instead of visiting the National Palace Museum like we had originally planned, the guys and I instead decided to take a daytrip to the north of Taiwan and see the rock formations at Yeliu Geopark (unfortunately, Melody wasn't able to come with us so the weekend was quite interesting with me being the only girl). We took about an hour-long bus ride there and "hiked" the park for about 2 hours, somehow managing to walk up almost every single step there haha. But the view was beautiful and the area serene, just what I needed to escape the chaos of schoolwork and other matters. This is definitely a place that someone should visit if they're in Taiwan.
My travel buddies this weekend :]
With "Dragon's Head"
Queen's Head
Another place that we'd been meaning to go but kept putting off was Fulong Beach, also up north. So on Sunday we caught one of the earlier express trains and made it there at around 2. We spent the next 3 hours or so wading in the shallow water (because the lifeguards wouldn't let us go far from shore, even though the water was chest high pretty far out) playing with the sand and laying in the sun. The area was so beautiful and it was quite the relaxing day.
During this time, Fulong Beach was holding a sand sculpture exhibition, so here are a few of the coolest ones.
Gotham City :]
Such studs :]
This weekend will be quite busy trying to get some work done to make up for next weekend... which I will be spending in the Philippines with friends and family! :] Super duper excited!!
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