Jiaxian: The garden party with mosquito kisses
- Adriana
- 2017年7月2日
- 讀畢需時 2 分鐘
We arrived in Gooddays in Jiaxan District, Kaoshiung. Gooddays is a café, restaurant and shop in one. This Gooddays also called Hau Hau in Chinese is the community I was talking about in the previous article. There is a wide range of things I am going to be part of here but allow me to tell you about my first two days in this village for now.
My "guide“ and also one of three persons who can speak english is Jiaxan is 17 years old girl Mimmy. Mimmy has wanted to have me in the house in order to improve her ability in speaking English . I need to claim of her as a kind, pretty and clever girl willing to show and explain me anything what I ask for. So quite much.
I moved into her family’s house. Despite the fact her parents can’t speak English we always smile at each other. That’s more important!
With their interest, I kind of feel like their new daughter. I am still not sure If they know how old I am. Anyhow, little care never hurts!
The second and third English speaking people are teacher Ma and her American husband, Josh. Ma was the one who invited me for a dinner with some other people. She gave us a lift to the house where the dinner was held. Other hosts kept coming and everybody put a dish on the large table.
What I can say with certainty Taiwanese love to eat! Much and for long time!
I tried food I had obviously never tried before!
Since I can’t speak Chinese Mimmy was asked from every side who am I, where I come from, where Slovakia actually is or even If I am her classmate from Junior high school.
Hm. I don’t blame them.
When mosquitos started to kiss too much ( that’s how they call it) we moved inside the house. And there just real un began. I was handed a thick book with numbers and lines in Chinese. Then I figured they want me to choose some song to sing. I forgot Karaoke is one of their favourite hobby in that moment and literally everybody can sing! Unfortunately :), there were just four english songs released millions years ago that I did not know.
After few performances I noticed my mouth were open. Everybody in the room sang at least twice. Just to mention again, no alcohol beverages. Pure three hours of Karaoke vibes.
I could easily say they do not speak between each other about their feelings. They sing and I found it pretty romantic.
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