Spent 4.5 hours on a train this morning traveling to the countryside of Taiwan.  Totally didn’t know we were doing that.  I kept asking…uh, where are we going?  What are we doing?  What’s there to see?

Oh…side note.  I woke up this morning with CANKLES.  I am not kidding you.  I’ll post a picture later.  The area around both of my ankles were super itchy this morning because I got bit overnight – at least that’s what I suspect.  Anyway, so then I was looking at my ankles and noticed that they were swollen both on the inside.  Upon further inspection – my right ankle is also swollen on the outside.  They are both pretty swollen which is kind of weird and a bit concerning.  I know my right ankle has been swollen on the outside for awhile because I injured it but I always thought it was weird that it was always the inside that hurt even though it was swollen outside.  Now it’s swollen all over and is really nasty.  Hope it’s nothing serious.  =

Now, where was I?  Countryside of Taiwan.  They like to call it the backyard garden of Taiwan.  It’s filled with crops and greens – not a lot of people or cars.  Our first stop was this old train station I think – we weren’t there very long.  Second stop – wow I can’t even remember now.  Oh, second stop was boring haha – that’s why.  We were at some park or something?  There were mountains and plants?  BORING.  Haha.  Third stop was in Luye, I think.  We went countryside biking.  They showed us these cannon things they made and used to hunt with.  That was kind of neat.  More biking to the “green tunnel” where we laid on our backs in the middle of the street – random.  More biking, ate a mulberry popsicle.  Almost crashed the bicycle because I was trying to take pictures while biking and my bike seat kept falling lower.  I thought that bike was going to break.  Anyway, here we are at the Papagoda Resort.  We just had dinner – it wasn’t very good.  I really need to sleep some now.  I always start feeling sick and then it starts feeling like motion sickness when I don’t get enough sleep.

Yesterday was better, I think I like the city side of Taiwan way better than the countryside.  =P