Going for a walk in Taipei CIty at Night

So tonite I decided to go for a walk to TP 101 from the MC house which is near the MC office, getting to tp101 is easy because all you have to do is look up and you can find it, but you know getting back is not so easy.


I decided to be a little adventurous and take a different way back to the house which probably wasn't the best option, I ended up walking to Sun Yat sen memorial hall, and then to stop was the MRT Taipei city all station (which is in the complete opposite direction of the house!), mind you this was at like 1am in the morning when I decided to go for a walk :P so about 3 hours later of walking around Taipei city I worked my way back to the house (finally getting out my GPS on my phone to guide me) so i made it back home at 4am in the morning after a long walk around tp city :) I have to say it is very very easy to get lost if you have no idea where you are going at nite!


but i did see some kool things hehe :P

Taipei 101

Random Building with grass on it that you can walk on! :)

2010 This way :)

First National Planning Meeting In Taiwan

So the weekend is over, after a day of sleep! which was extremely nice! :) i sit here and reflect on what has been an intense 3 days of NPM.

For us our planning for NPM begin a while back sorting out session outlines and who is responsible for which session, to creating our own sessions and gaining feedback from the rest of the MC and MCe team. to arriving in KH on the friday to run through everything and prepare for what was to be an intense weekend!

Walking into WZ on the Saturday morning and seeing some LC's already there waiting to go, all dressed in their LC Tshirts, these are the people that will lead their LC in 1011, and to see them and finally meet them was amazing.

To be part of the faci team delivering the knowledge and content to inspire, motivate and lead these LC's is amazing, in the first few hours of NPM i still didnt believe that it had begun and all the planning that we have been doing was working, and NPM was running, for the first few hours i was feeling like omg NPM is really begining and we are running this confernce, wow!

running through each of the sessions, seeing all the delegates interact and participate and voice their opinions was great, from morning untill night on saturday,and then again on sunday!

I know i didnt get to meet and talk to all of the delegates but by watching and seeing your participate in the conference and working in your LC teams and also to the LCVPICX'ers as well, i saw the potential you all have, you are all willing to learn, willing to question and challange the way we do things and also working on ways we can improve for the 1011 term.

To the OC, you people are awesome! always willing to help us, and dealing with all our questions, and always with a smile :D love you all lots and thank you all for such a wonderful confernce :)

To the MC current, i dont think as an MCe team we could thank you enough for the amount of support you all have given us, through feedback, in sessions and helping us answer delegates questions and also helping translate things into chinese :P it was greatly appreciated!!

To the MCe team! this was the first time we actually ran a proper conference together!! and wow all i can say is we are really united as a team and love you guys heaps!! and cannot wait for our term to fully start cus it is going to be really awesome to work with you all in 1011!!!!

and finally to the delegates, as much as we as a faci team and the OC team can prepare to hold and host a confernce we cannot do it without you, without your participation, your enthusiasm and willingness to learn! you have shown us what potential you all have as leaders and we all look forward to seeing what we all can do in 1011 and are looking foward to working with you all!!!

My Lovely Team :)

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Week one

first week of being in taiwan has been one of the most craziest and hectic times i have had experienced in a while!!!

18 hour days from friday to monday planning for the new term, understanding and goin through the whole process with the team of 12 people to come up wtih our national strategies and actions. we pretti much spent most of the time in the home stay working on this all!

Home stay for MC Planning 

 but we had lovely food from the current team :D yay and also went out to the night markets in Hualien which was nice, ,

Coffin Bread

 At some coffin bread at the night markets and also did some random video for some communications students that where in the night market. they asked us three internationals to say a few words in chinese and we was filmed doing it. following that went to the beach an chilled out on the rocks near the water, was nice to let our brains rest as a team and just relax for a lil bit.

Relaxing at the Beach in Hualien

after the planning finished on monday (a looooooooongggggggggggg 4 days of it!!) went to CCLC whcih is about 30 minutes away from the house for an intern reception party to welcome 2 columbian interns into the country who will be teaching english here. :) was a very different reception style party compared to australia which involves dinner and going to to the pub. Here we eat and play games and get to know the interns a bit more, was different but also pretti koool :)

anndd now we have our airconditioning working in the MC flat which is awesome :D and also internet finally!!! soo happy hehehe but have lots and lots of work left to do still for the next conference we are organising this weekend.

So far the experience in Taiwan has been insane and awesome :), I love it and i have been to buzy to actually sit down and relax yet, hopefully that day will come soon :) (nxt week) but everyday has been really good, learning new things, walking around Taipei trying not to get lost, ordering food has been fun :P hehe its point and hand actions and they somewhat understand :P hehe but its been a really good experience :) now all i have to so is learn chinese and then i can communicate and order food etc :P hehe