2013國際志工樂在台東.知本: 'Corn Soup Day' ; 2013 Hot Air Balloon Fiesta with my lovely friends:D

We had our fifth training lesson with ‘Corn Soup’, a sweet couple today. Corn is the wife and Soup is the husband. I was so touched when they told us that they have been together since they were still in university. Today’s lesson was slightly different as they used to introduce this place--Jhihben National Forest Recreation Area through story telling.

**The most interesting part of today’s briefing**

We met two families from Tainan before we headed into the forest so ‘Corn Soup’ invited them to go together with us. During the rest time, we had the chance to share our feelings and everything about ourselves to them. We talked about our hometown, Malaysia and Indonesia as well as our life in Taiwan. Okay, so we have new friends now and going to meet them again in Tainan soon :D

The briefing ended at about 12pm and ‘Corn Soup’ brought us to their house to have lunch. They bought lunch box for us on the way home. The lunch box in Taiwan is so different from Malaysia’s. How I wish I could have something like that in Malaysia! After lunch, they brought us to an organic farm. I really love the environment there but I’m so sorry for being troublesome. I just couldn’t control myself from the fear of dogs.

Then we went to a famous coffee shop to have coffee. As I’m not a coffee-lover, I tried only mocha but not the pure coffee. The coffee shop was so crowded when we arrived and it was like an oasis in desert as there were no other shops along the road.

It was about 4pm when we left the coffee shop. ‘Corn Soup’ then brought us to the Hot Air Balloon Festival at LuYe. We were so happy that we finally had the chance to get there! Thanks Corn Soup! It’s really hard to describe the environment there! So let photos do the talk! :P