Well, I'm here, in Taiwan, enjoying the Taiwanese life, being an exchange student and stuff. Anyways, updating you guys on my life, since the past 5 days were all exchange related stuff.
Friday-Sunday: Alright, so I had inbound orientation at my sponsoring district(5400) in Ketchum, ID. I met some awesome exchange students. I had a blast with them and I hope they have an awesome exchange year in Idaho. I'm kind of sad that I can't hang out with them more, but I will most likely keep in contact with them over facebook or some stuff.
Sunday through now: Alright, so when I got back from the orientation, I had to finish packing. After I got that done, I went to the store and get some more medicine supplies. So I got on my plane to Seattle to spend the night at my travel agent's house. It was pretty fun, and I had some awesome food. After that night, I woke up at 06:00 having my last American shower, and my last bowl of cereal lol. So, I get to the airport at 8am, and got through security at 8:30 or so. I meet up with an exchange student friend, and she takes me to the other exchange student friends. So we hang out in Seattle-Tacoma airport for a bit. We fly up to Vancouver, BC and when we go through customs, we lose two people. So I'm with the other exchange student and were both hoping that we would meet up with the other two lol. We end up meeting with the other two, and adding two more people later on. So after that, we hang out in BC for about 3 hours, and get on our flight for 11 hours, going to Seoul, South Korea.
The flight itself wasn't bad, and I thought it was going to be long... They had some good movies on there, and I listened to some albums I've been looking to buy for a while. Looks like I might need to get them, sometime soon. During the flight, 2 other exchange students and I were watching movies, and we tried to get them to go at the same time, and we got it pretty close. We watched "21 Jump Street", and "The Hunger Games". I liked 21 Jump Street, and I laughed like an obnoxious American. The Hunger Games was meh, and I almost fell asleep during it lol. We arrive in S. Korea 20-30 minutes late, so we go through security, and we get seperated again. What the hell is up with us getting seperated? So we eventually meet up again, and meet with the California group, and the Boston group. Were a group of 13 exchange students, what more could possibly go wrong? Nothing bad happened though lol. We hang out in Seoul for a bit, and get on our final flight. It was pretty slow, and I sat by myself, but 2 others were next to me in the middle isle. So we arrive in Taipei, and I'm doing the giddy dance in my brain. I can't believe I'm in Taiwan was all I thought lol. So we went through the final checkpoint/whatever you want to call it, and were going to get our bags. We find them easily since they were the last ones to get there, since somebody forgot to fill their form out lol. We all get through and we get going. So we walk for about 20 seconds, and then we see a bunch of freaking signs. Now I thought to myself, "Wow, this is a big freaking welcoming party." So I'm thinking to myself, "Where is my family" and I look left and see my group as they're yelling my name, and we all get seperated for the final time. I get like a thousand pictures taken, and I forgot about my camera, so I felt like an idiot. I got the pictures from my second host sister though lol. Anyways, we get going back to my house. I have two houses for my first family, one is a sleeping house, and the other is where we talk, eat, and study. It's pretty nice lol.
Anyways, that's about it. That covered my hectic happenings in the past few days. I will most likely do a post every 2 or three weeks I think. So yeah, time to start this exchange studenting career xD. I'll post pictures later in my pictures page, and will put another page up with my other ways to contact me.
-Benjamin Michael Thomas
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