The Yilan Incident

I awoke early again and this time my host father and mother took me to Yilan for the day. Yilan is a beautiful green area famous for its hot springs, and the cold springs that we went to. Apparently there are only two cold springs in the world, and the other one is in Switzerland. I also went with my host mother's parents, and we dropped them off at a large house in the countryside. I saw some Chinese workers wearing the traditional hats you see when you envision China, and it reminded me of learning of the rural peasantry in class last year.

There was also some sort of Indonesian man servant there to help the father, who was 80 years old. Not really sure what the story was there, but the Indonesian man servant seemed happy.

Then we went to a brewery. We waited around for a minute, and looked at a few exhibits. Then a man who worked there came and got really excited to see me. He gave me a short tour, showed me a video, and then brought out two bottles of locally brewed wine. While I'm certain this is the wrong way to spell it, he and I drank Kung Lu Joh, a wine famous for cooking chicken, and a very sweet wine. Then my host parents told him something and he brought sausages that were cooked in wine. Then he decided he wanted to drink spirits with me, so he brought a little bottle of spirits and we drank that. Then as we were walking through the store area he ran into us and bought me and him a beer. So we drank that and had consumed quite a bit of alcohol

Then he decided to give us a tour of the parts of the brewery normally closed to the public, so I saw the enormous storing rooms, the bottling process, and other nice stuff.

In the evening I met David and Nana. Nice fellows. Should probably see them again. If nothing else, we are all going to Kinmen island together. More to come soon, and I'll hopefully get pictures up so this isn't so boring!