三天，十六个小时 3days, 16hours

after that i will be back in germany, i will be back home, i will be where my family and my friends are!

haven't written anything for so long now it's difficult to start again. especially because i havn't written english for so long.
we watch english tv every day but we don't speak english. i think when i will have a job and more money, no matter where i will live, i wan't to have english pay-tv. i have some favorite stations here as "travel&living", "discovery" and "national geographic". "travel&living" has so much design shows, i just love it!!!

last friday (oh, that's almost a week ago!) C and i again visited the 101. and on saturday some of us played paint-ball. again it was a stupid group activity but i didn't want to sit in hotel by myself waiting all day for the others to return. so i just came along to take photos.

first the 101's





north side (i hope that's right, but i think so)




hm, they are all north or north-east, strange


the taiwan culture university has some students and graduates working in the bureau for foreign students. they helped us with the hotel and organized the field-trips. on saturday at 12am we met with them and their friend and our home-stay girls at shilin mrt station. (we got off the hotel at 11!!). then we had to go by taxi in 4 groups because the paint-ball thing is up in the hills.
the moment our taiwanese "chief girl" told the driver the address i could tell by the look on his face that he didn't have a clue where that place was. but he didn't say a word. so he took the wrong way twice and we arrived later. but then we still had to wait for the taiwanese students!
the place was kinda strange. it was in the hills and it almost looked like a rain forest. there were a little river, small waterfalls and you could hear strange insect's sounds. we followed a path leading to the main building where they had all the protection suits, helms and other stuff and the paint-ball guns.
they explained every single stupid detail for about an hour before they got on the field. that was boring. the field looked boring too but i think they had fun.
but one of my classmates broke his leg near his knuckles . he got to hospital, had a surgery, two screws in his bones and will fly home at sunday. his plan was to make a trip around taiwan with C and the other boys.
i think it would be the worst thing for me to have to go to a chinese hospital. i know they are not that bad but i don't trust them. but i don't trust german doctors neither.

now the photos!!

the paint-ball guns


putting in the safety stuff


a taiwanese family


the field


the soldiers...


... in action


the second field after D broke his leg. even more dangerous there... argh, stupid!!!!