Hey people! It’s Mario.
I am going to tell you about the trip to Taiwan.
I woke up at 5 in the morning because i needed to take the plane at 11.
This is the first time i go abroad.
However i was not nervous because i was going to meet my lover.
I flew with Air-China, so i went to the airport at 7:30.
Then i waited there.
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When I was waiting, I met an old man who comes Brazil. That man told me something about business, but i seldom understood because of his accent. Then I met another guy who is getting friends with me. And finally we took the plane.
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I sat with a Chinese guy who has a little kid and the trip took around 10 hours. I arrive to Beijing and at that time i met again with that friend who became my friend. Both we will take plane to taiwan, but he just needed to wait for 2 hours, and i needed 8 hours .
So when he went, i got bored. And i slept around 2 hours. I tried to connect to the internet as well, but I should ask for a username on a gate stand, but I tried to talk to them and… what’s my surprise when they seldom can speak english?? … hello? Am I crazy? We are in an airport!…. never mind. Sleeping worth it.
Then I took the plane to Taipei, which I found is business class…. I thought… huh? Is this mine? … now I realize it’s business class xd… why not economic?.. strange. What I think is, maybe when I booked the flight the economic class ticket stock is over, so maybe that’s the next cheap option. No wonder at that time I saw a lot of taiwanese who use cool mobiles, almost everyone iPhones, tablets, last computers….. at that time I thought: “Oh, these taiwanese are very rich!”.. I really didn’t notice where I was, that plane wasn’t for me ==…. although it was so beautiful, cool drawings outside, similar to this one:
After 3 hours, the plane was landing over a wonderful clouds sea, pretty amazing… although at that moment I couldn’t take any photo because the assistants ask us to turn off the mobiles and all electronic machines while landing.
I finally arrived to Taipei. Years waiting to go to Asia, and finally I did it; I couldn’t believe. Then I called my lover, and I told her I arrive; I went to the High Speed Railways Station… my surprise was when, they told me: “There are no tickets to Tainan”… what?? Oh god, what could I do? A man in the station there said if I go to the normal train station and take a train to Tainan I could arrive “early”, but the last time was at 8, and at that time is 7:40; so I went running to take a Taxi… but I arrived at 8:02…
My experience inside the Taxi was something that I still thinking right now: “Taiwanese drive crazily”. Believe me. Even now I still thinking: “Why the government paint zebra crossing on the road in the streets?? I think it’s decorative, cause anyone cross the road over there”.
Getting back on the main topic. Emily told me that there is another solution which is taking a train to Taichung, and there her cousin would pick me up to the High Speed Railways Station, cause there are tickets to Tainan; so that’s what I did. I went to Taichung, at that time I saw the first foreigner in Taiwan which was in the same car as me (in fact, is not the car… I didn’t sit on any seat, I just stayed between two cars), happy to see someone like me, and still getting surprised when I see a foreigner in Taiwan, I thought there would be more… but…… it seems like planes doesn’t exist here!! Anybody comes to Taiwan?? Until today, I could count the foreigners I saw with the fingers on my hand!
Well, so I took the HSR. Really fast.. amazing, it’s the first time I experience a kind of “shinkansen”, it took around 40 minutes, and I didn’t know where could I put my big luggage… I felt shy, everyone looked at me, but also anyone couldn’t help me because they couldn’t speak english. So, is truth that taiwanese are kind and helpful??…. COMPLETELY! No matter they don’t understand you, they will use gestures, even drawing smoke on the air if necessary!! Amazing kind.
Finally I arrived: Tainan. I left the station and…. yea, she was waiting there for me!! Also her parents, she was holding a “Bienvenido 馬力歐 Mario” little blackboard, and also recording me!! (She lost the video… xd, because of accident on saving it)
No words. At that time, I wanted to hug her and raise her up, kiss her as I never did.. but, I didn’t know anything; I didn’t know how her parents would react.. so the first thing I did (and I thought it would be good) is giving them my hand and say hello. Sure, I couldn’t kiss her for a long time… her parents in front, plus the rules in Taiwan: Not kiss in the street! .. everything’s so hard, I really wanted her… but we found our moment.
We will put pictures in our Photo Album, you are welcome to see 
See you in the next post!
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