A Little Trip with Shawna, My Dearest Friend.

This spring I experienced something quite different. 

I attended a gospel camp as a group leader in the beginning of my spring break. After that a very good friend of mine came visit me in Chung-li. That’s why I didn’t go back to Kaohsiung right away. Though spring break is the only chance for me to go back home, it’s totally worth spending four days in the city I don’t like with my dearest friend – Shawna. 

Haha..! I put this photo here just because I wanna emphasize that Shawna was sooooo slender then LOL! I remember we knew each other because we waited for school bus at the same stop everyday morning. Since both of us are Christians, we soon became very close. Our student fellowship in KKSH began with only four or five people. I’m so glad to hear that there’re so many students in the fellowship now! Shawna wanted to visit me last year during the 228-memorial-day-vacation, yet I had another friend Tiffany that booked the time earlier. Therefore, we finally had our wish fulfilled in the spring break this year. 

 Actually we merely hanged out three or four times together after graduating from senior high school. However, as what I always say, true friends don’t need to meet every day to maintain their friendship! Shawna arrived in Chung-li on Saturday night. I was yet to finish the camp at that time. Thanks my friend 采薇 for picking her up and accompanying her till I came back the next day. On Sunday night we went to the two must-see night markets in Chungli and chatted till two o’clock a.m. As expected we couldn’t wake up when the alarm rang… We woke up a bit late… On the first day we went to Taipei Zoo. The weather was crazily hot! After we’re done seeing so many animals we went to Xi-Men shopping district. We had a super greasy Japanese ramien as lunch which killed our appetite. Kinda disappointed, Shawna decided to dye her hair. 

    On the second day of the trip I took Shawna to the kitty village “Hou-Tong”. I’ve been there once and I do like it! We took a lot of awesome pictures there. We also met a cute kitty, and it guided us to a very high place. Shawna called the kitty “kitty elf”. After having lunch we sang some songs together on a bridge above an abandoned mine nearby. That recalled me a lot of memories in senior high school. I and Shawna once attended a singing contest and won the second place. Her voice’s still beautiful! 

Finally it came to the last day of the trip. I felt like everything would come to an end once we woke up; as a result, we got up till around 11:30 o’clock in the morning…even we did wake up around 6:30. It’s always hard to say good bye to someone you really like, isn’t it? I almost cried when Shawna said, “It’s the last 40 minutes we have” on the high speed rail train back to Kaohsiung. Both of us felt so hollow after getting back to our normal lives. Anyways, I’ve started looking forward to having a trip next time, though it might be half of a year or longer later. Thank God for giving me this very good friend! She’s just like my sister, a real family member! Love Love! What a wonderful trip :)