Our first hike...

July 18th
Wow, these "mountains" are beautiful. It's so weird to be in the city with very few trees around and then all of a sudden be in surrounded with trees and creatures. One of the secretaries at our school, Gloria, took us on our first hike. Can I just say that it was SO hot! I am a pretty fast hiker, but man, it was so hot that we took it quite slow. This hike had tons of stairs and tons of spiders.


We hiked up to this place that the Taiwan people come to in the morning to exercise. They use these giant hula hoops to work out with. They are really heavy and wide and they really do work! They also have these wires hanging between trees that they do something like pull-ups. If you go in the morning you can see a bunch of people just hula-hooping away.