had a tiring but interesting trip to the south this weekend (台南＋台中＋彰化）
involved riding a boat for 30 min while a tour guide introduced local marine life on a loud ass loudspeaker for 30 min. landed at Cigu Lagoon and took some pictures, drew in the sand,
furthermore, saved Nick from tumbling to his death from the ridge of a salt mountain, saved nick from a motorcycle at FongJia nightmarket in 台中, stayed at the super luxurious/new/modern Beacon Hotel right in the center of the nightmarket，went to a rice castle where we made scarecrows, went to a famous temple (龍山寺）, and watched transformers 2, wanted, the mummy, ip man on the bus. commie narrated ip man for me the entire time <3 and thank god b/c i would’ve been pretty lost without it! can’t wait to see ip man 2 =D
while buying yam from a yam man near the temple, commie and i happened upon some insight. i took out a handful of change while the man was filling our box with honeyed yam. then we kept repeating “gin-kak-a! gin-kak-a!” trying to practice saying change (coins) in taiwanese. i then apologized to the man that i only had small change, to which he replied “沒關係，有小才有大” (in order to have it big, you must start small). we walked away with yam in our hands and wonder in our minds.
