Let's Welcome the Swedish!

Zoye and Mimi went to Sweden serving in Vasärö campsite last year, and they got visitors this March!

Clara and Malin flew 24 hrs to do their high school graduation project. They'll stay in Taiwan for 2 weeks and visit lots of places to have first-hand, clearer picture of "where, and what is Taiwan." Sounds like an exciting project isn't it?

Old street @ SanXia


I was responsible for taking them around on Saturday, and partly involved in the Sunday schedule. Since their project was sponsored by two organizations- one is a Scout organization, the other is the Leo Club- they need to investigate our Scouting. Also, their project included visit to some temples, and tea gardens in Taiwan. These made our planning much easier.

LinYin, Clara & Malin

First, my plan included a half-day visit to the school-based scout group- WanXing Elementary cubs & brownies. As for the community-based scout group? They'll visit our 400-member Firewood Open Scout Group the next day. Come back to the Saturday afternoon, we went to SanXia ChinXuei TsuShih Temple 三峽清水祖師廟 to appreciate the classic temple and the antique old street. I explained to them the Taoism gods and rituals, and shared with them our famous diet style. They asked me questions on the way, and of course I knew a lot about their Swedish lives. In the middle of our journey in SanXia, Malin said "this is the atmosphere we expected to feel when we came to Taiwan. Crowded, a little bit chaotic, and got so close to local people's lives." I fully understood her, and I was happy to be the one that helped them to find the feeling.

Later, we came back to Taipei for ZhiNan Temple 指南宮 in the mountains. Besides the introduction of the God of the Gods, sure should I tell them about the "Handsome God" Lu Tung-Pin, and how according to saying that he would tell lovers apart.
"We were here alone, without our boyfriends. It should be fine, right?" Malin asked me carefully.

ZhiNan Temple

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"Let's say.... My mom and dad came here for a walk often, and I find NO problem among this two. How do you think?"
Malin got a relief smile on her face, and we happily walked into the temple to find the "Handsome God." hahahaha.....
(I later told Mom: "Ooops, I kind of fall in love with introducing our gods and temples to foreigners...It's so much fun!!!" freak me~~)

Already in the MaoKong area, we would not spare the chance to have a quick visit to the Tea Promotion Center, neither will we let go the chance to fulfill their goal of visiting the "tea garden". Without a second thought, we brought them to YaoYuei 邀月 tea house for dinner and waited for others to join us. I've successfully satisfied Clara- a vegetarian's- requirement at lunch by introducing them Green Onion Pancake 蔥油餅. And I was very ambitious to do a great job again! With some discussion with Dad, I choose five dish: Pineapple with shrimp 鳳梨蝦球、Rice Noodle with Tea Oil茶油麵線、Chinese Lettuce 炒高麗菜、Tofu on Iron Board鐵板豆腐、Vegetable Dumplin素蒸餃 and only the last one failed its mission! THEY LOVED ALL THE REST~~~~

(All the photos came from online albums but not from our restaurant.
Sorry, I didn't take photo of our food that day:P Thanks to all the photo providers!!)

I got another reason to feel proud of myself. Don't you think so?