Host Family - Sean Healy

After staying in Hualien for several days we got to stay at a hosts family's house, which was a great experience. The family that I stayed with did not speak a lot of English, so it was sort of difficult to communicate with them. I didn't see the father that much, the mother was a realtor in Hualien. They had two children one boy and one girl, Pang and Nikki, respectfully. After I had gotten there we decide to go to the pool. The pool was located at the same hotel that I had eaten dinner that night, 30 minutes beforehand. We met up with one of Pang's friends, Tony, at the pool. Both Tony and his sister spoke very good English, along with their father, who was an F-16 fighter pilot. I tied in a swim race with Pang, but I was probably going to lose in ping pong, because Tony's sister is the best person in Hualien. Then we went to the night market where we shot off fireworks and played with the bb guns. I got ten in a row so I won two prizes. All of the Tawainese people were looking at me because they thought it was funny to see me hit that many because I was the best person there. The night market was the funnest time that I ever had. Thankfully, in the next morning, so the host family took me to an American restaraunt, where I proceeded to have banana pancakes with bacon. It was such a relief to actually have American food. I learned many things about the host family and the daily life of the Tawainese people, but at the same time was filled with questions about the daily life in America. This had to be the best experience ever.