Being the substitute Contact Person

Actually, my job of being a contact person was originally arranged in August, which is from SOCPE. However, because that I will become the local officer of SCORE in CGU, and that my senior (or my schoolmate in senior high XD), Joseph, cannot take care of the exchanger due to participation in medical camp, he asked me if I can cover him during this period. I have promised him to replace him in the middle ten days of July, for that I have medical camp in the beginning and Lokah-da in the end. Nevertheless, last Friday, Hebe, the SCORE partner of Joseph, asked me if I can pick the exchanger and his girlfriend up in Taoyuan International Airport on Sunday. To myself, I would like to find someone to go with me if I should pick foreigners up alone. Considering this thoughts, I cannot let Hebe go alone, so I finally decided to go with her even though I haven’t already clean up my room in dormitory and check out! These tasks should be finished at least before ten o’clock on Sunday night, or I may be punished.

To save time, my dear Dad volunteered to drive me to the airport, and he’s also willing to drive us back to our campus. Checked out on the website, the plane will arrive at 11:45 in the morning. Just on the road to airport, I received Hebe’s phone. She has already arrived, finding that the plane has delayed about one hour…So we rushed to my dorm, wanting to take advantage of this time packing my belongings. After we rushed to the airport, I found on the electronic board showing the plane has arrived at 12:58. But it’s already one-half! How come Hebe hasn’t recognize them?! She’s quite nervous that she even went to the information desk to ask. Finally, a tall man with brown hair and beautiful blue eyes recognize our poster, with one name”Christopher” on it. (As a matter of fact, it takes me two days to remember his name, and now I’m still not sure whether the spelling is correct or not…) Both of them are quite tall that the male is taller than me by about one and half head, and the female is by about one head… On the way back to school, I found that Hebe masters English so well that I’m a little bit embarrassed to speak English in front of her and the English native speakers. Arriving school, we first went to the hotel to check in, then I rushed back to my room. There was a time limit that I should finished cleaning before ten o’clock. With of the help of my father, I eventually did it at around 5 o’clock. Due to my fear of taking care of them alone, I asked Kimo, or Ryan, and Dickson, or Medicine (XD) to go with me. We went to the neighborhood of Chang Gung Hospital to have a meal. Now we were six people, so we deemed it as welcome party, bringing them to taste the teppanyaki (鐵板燒). However, it’s really a challenge to introduce this kind of food and cook to westerns because that we didn’t know the English of it. We just said that it is a way of cooking which is fried on an iron plain. Finally, they knew what was teppanyaki in the restaurant. I found that Christopher was a left-handed person! Another finding is that I heard from Sallad (I don’t know how to spell it…) that Finnish eat rice, but they use fork to eat it! How interesting it is! After meal, we introduced ourselves to each other during I’m eating ice cream.XDD Now I finally remember their name, and figured out that Christopher is going to the fourth grade as well as Sallad going to the second grade. Sallad majors in dentistry, and she is just going with Christopher for travel. Both of them like Thai food, so they will stay in Taiwan for about three weeks, and then transferring to Thailand to have a one-week trip. Sounds great! How I wish I can have a trip with my friends, not restrict to girlfriend XD Maybe there will be a chance in the future, after we have saved enough money and grow up(?!).

We went to buy some articles for daily use, and go back, ended today’s schedule with full stomach:)

Today, because that there are some problems about the official document. So they cannot settle into their room in dormitory yet, and I have to recheck in the hotel for them. I went to the lab, where the teaching assistant is quite humorous, to find Christopher and explain to him that he cannot move in today. I feel so sorry about it, but he is quite friendly and nice that he thanks me a lot!

It’s a good experience to take care of an exchanger friendly like him, I cannot wait to take him to nice places and introduce Taipei for him:) I hope that I can have a lot of extra time of medical camp, and bring him to have fun, making good friends with them. Then next time when I’m going to Finland, I can require him to be my guide. XD Hahaha~