Thats a Tsou, Alishan Tribe's language which means that "I am joyous to welcome you." Noted in a welcome letter that we received when we checked in the hotel. I learned a new word today!
We landed safely this am (friday August 28th) around 5:30 which is one hour early. Then, we rode in a nice charter bus (6 total). The funny thing is that a police car with the sirens on is leading us all the way to Chiayi City, which is about 3 hours south of Taipei. We are staying there just for one week for training camp and then head back to Taipei right before the opening ceremony (September 5th). We looked around Taipei and drove through from town to town. We find it strange that we havent found Taipei 101 (World's tallest building). There were like million acres of rice farm everywhere and several beautiful temples. Oh by the way, no surprises that the weather is HOT and HUMID, probably 3 times worse than St. Louis. It was already hot and humid at 6:00 in the morning when we got out of the airport. It is gonna be brutal to those athletes! Sigh! After we checked in at the hotel, then we finally went to grab some lunch, we were all nervous to eat taiwanese food, but it came out better than expected. I ate T-bone steak, with rice and soup at the food court at the mall. Hopefully, I wont get an upset stomach or too many trips to the bathroom! (Rebecca, I will try to eat few exotic food but not right now so give me time and let me get used to taiwanese food :-)
When we walked around, it was very difficult to communicate with Taiwanese people but luckily, there are interpreters (english) everywhere so that helps a bit. Also, we figured out the currency, 1 American dollar equal 33 taiwanese dollars. We shopped around the mall and looked at the prices, so they are little bit cheaper than USA.
Right now, it's 4:20 pm (Friday) and that means we are 13 hours ahead of St. Louis time (Central time zone) 3:20 am there. I am pretty tired and sleepy but am trying to stay awake til bedtime so I wont be up all night tonight.
I got the free internet in the hotel room and should be no problems posting on the blog daily if I have something to say. Also, I will try to post pictures as of now if I can figure out with this tech thing.
The training camp officially starts tomorrow. I am sure I will have something to share of my experiences as an athletic trainer at a international setting.
Tomorrow, I will be thinking of Eureka Wildcats teams and especially the football game against Lafeyette Lancers tonight. Go WILDCATS!
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