Phineas and Ferb

Phineas and Ferb is my favorite tv show. It talks about two boys named Phineas and Ferb who have overactive imagination. Their sister, Candace always wants to bust them but she never succeeds. They also have a platypus named Perry who is a secret undercover agent. His missions are to thwart an evil scientist named Doofenshmirtz. Meanwhile Phineas and Ferb build crazy contraptions like roller coasters, time machines and much more. But Candace always wants to bust her brothers and always calls her mom to see what they have done. At the end of the day the contraption always disappears before their mom sees it. Meanwhile Perry the platypus A.K.A. Agent P thwarts Doofenshmitz's plan and that plan is used on whatever Phineas and Ferb made and disappears. In the middle of the show there are songs that are sometimes lame, funny, or enjoyable. The reason I like Phineas and Ferb is because it is partially funny, enjoyable, cool and weird which makes it my favorite show on tv.

The National Palace Museum

On a hot sunny day, where the blazing hot sun rays strikes your body. Here I was at the national palace museum, in the front were a lot of stairs. As my mom and I walked up the stairs, we started to sweat the first few stairs we walked up. It felt as if the sun was on your back following you around never stopping to take a break. The stairs were infinite, it looked like there was no end until miles and miles away. At last we were at the top of the stairs, I screamed 'YES, WE BESTED THE STAIRS!!!!!!!!!'. We observed our surroundings and saw a parking lot right by the museum and we were so disappointed. When we were FINALLY indoors I was overjoyed about the cold, windy air conditioner. We were going to meet up here with a friend of my mom that was coming back from America for the summer. We went inside the antique section when we finally saw them. We went to see many pieces of pottery. Some were made of bamboo and some were made of rhinoceros horns, you heard me a rhinoceros' horn. There was this piece of jade that was carved into a shape of dong pwo lo (pork stew). There was also this jade carved into the shape of a piece of cabbage with a cricket on top. The most amazing thing was a ball that had seven other balls in side with many layers. The ball was made of ivory and I think it might have took them thirty years or so to make it. Then for the last thing we did for the day was building a bridge made from wooden blocks and a bridge made from some that seems like pillow bricks. There were also puzzles that were very easy for me. The thing that was the greatest fun was feeding fish. I got two cases but my friend, Nicholas, accidentally knocked it off the edge and my first box when it was nearly all gone I accidentally knocked it over the edge. After we were at the parking lot we said farewell and departed on our separate ways.

My Cousins and I

Still as hot as the usual, if you don't have an air conditioner you cannot live this time of the year. Waiting for the exciting moment for my cousins to come, I was burning hot, and I was drinking cold cups of winter melon by the hundreds. I had to clean the stairs with a paper towel and when I was done the paper towel was covered in so much dust that it looks like I had just cleaned a dog that had been rolling in mud, dirt and dust all day long. When I was done my cousins called saying that they were nearly here. I was so excited that I did one of my painful split kicks. When they were finally here they rushed in as fast as a lion chasing after its prey. We were going to play" fossil fighters" together but Darren the older one of the two cousins but younger than me, kept wanting a specific fossil that is hard to find. The problem was that the fossil he wanted was rare and I think its too troublesome to find it but he kept forcing me to. Darren's little brother wanted a new game so I helped him get it. I also gave Darren and Landon, Darren's little brother, a game called monster lab. Soon, Darren got tired of playing ds and started wanting to play xbox. So I set it up and we played all though they lost at hurdles, discus, sprint and long jump, well at least they won javelin. When they finally didn't want to play xbox it was dinner. I only ate meat sauce on rice and one bowl of chicken and miso soup. When dinner was over they wanted to run on the tread mail. But they were playing with it so I stole and hid the key. It was funny when they kept annoying me for the key. There was an unexpected part when their dad found and gave them the key. When he found it, it was already time for them to go and I said bye. Although today was tiring it was nice and fun.

Katherine and Emily

On a hot sunny day, the sweat rolled down my body. Although this was just a two minute walk. The sun was blazing as hot as ever, and the wind, well there really was no wind. The temperature so high that I think you can cook an egg on the street(well that is actually impossible with the raging motorcycles and cars rushing left and right, forward and backward). When I finally got into McDonalds, I was so happy that there was air conditioning. While my mom ordered a nice, cold sundae and some delicious nuggets, I went to find Katherine and her little sister, Emily. Katherine and Emily are one of the few people in my school that knows how to speak English as well as I do. When I finally found them in the really packed Mcdonalds, I greeted them and they greeted me. Soon after that my mom had gotten the order and brought it to the table. There were also fries in the order. I ate slowly and talked to Katherine(BTW to all who are reading this she is not my girlfriend, I repeat she is not my girlfriend... well maybe I like her a little but what's the big deal?).  Her little sister was sort of annoying though but I got used to it eventually(I think). Anyways they brought some toys to play and I played with them. There was a toy where you need to put on this helicopter top and you pulled this string really hard(but not to hard or it might break) and it would fly out. Her sister brought a more original toy but overall we had fun. Today was a fun and nice day and i can't wait to play with them again.

Taiwanese Tea Farm

On Sunday 9:00 a.m., I went to a Taiwanese Tea Farm. Most of the people here are from my school. At the tea farm, the first thing we did was signing your name on a sheet of paper so that you can get some tea for free(or I think for free). After that my friends showed me how to play a Taiwanese yo-yo that they bought at school. Soon after that we went to pick tea leaves. The tea leaves you had to pick needed to have a heart and two leaves. I was glad when when I got a lot of them, but my friend collected two times as much. When a few bags were filled, I was exhausted. I was sweating like crazy. At last, it was time to eat. We ate on a little grill and had to put up the fire ourselves. There were six different groups, all of them had the same supplies but at different places. My group was near the tea leaves fields. My friend wanted to did everything that my dad wouldn't let me do. I was really angry that I couldn't do those things such as light the fire and put in some coal. At last, things worked out. The things we ate were mostly fish balls. All I ate were three pieces of meat. At the end of the day everyone took a picture together with the packs of tea. It was a nice day and overall I pretty much liked the tea farm and i am hoping to go again soon.

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Travis' friend, Leo

The tea leaves we picked today

My mom with her friends

My friends & I were in charge of B.B. Q.

Our group & school principal

Science Mueseum

My friends and I went to the science museum. The first thing we were doing was going to buy a movie ticket. I don't know why but at soon after my mom said that we shouldn't. We went to the children section of the museum where there were these things like lego. I made a fish while my two other friends made a tree and a dog. Meanwhile, my friends' mom (auntie Mendy) went to check around and found a shop full of airplanes. The airplanes were made of styrofoam but flew pretty well. The shopkeeper told us we could take them out to play because there was more space. Unfortunately, I accidentally threw the plane to an unreachable place. The shopkeeper says it was okay. So I went back to the inside of the store. Then my friend threw the airplane onto the top of a light. The problem was that it was stuck there. So my friend paid the money and cried a bit. Then my mom bought an egg for me. If you put the egg in water it was supposed to crack and then a baby dinosaur comes out. You let it stay in water then it would grow. My friend wanted this preserved beetle, and it was really disgusting. Then he saw this really disgusting thing. It was a pigeon sliced in half so you could see the inside of it. At the end of the say My mom, dad and I went to this night market and then went home.

The Cruise Part 2

I am on a cruise that goes from Taiwan, two cities of japan and then back to Taiwan. On the first day at sea,  I felt a bit queasy, which is a part of seasickness. Then I gradually felt better. My mom and dad had maximum dosage of seasickness which made them take medicine. At  last we got to a smaller part of japan in a day's time. When we got off the ship the first thing to do was to exchange some Taiwanese money for Japanese Yen. We got into a cab, he drove us to a market and we got off. The weather was very very VERY hot. I think it was a heatwave. One problem when we got to japan, on the boat i don't know when I got sick. Worst of all is I had stomach illness. Very bad illness if you ask me, I had to keep going to the restroom for diarrhea. Anyways, When I got to the market there was a lot of stuff. The funny thing was that they had mini coke cans, half the size of normal ones. One of the best things there was A&W ROOT BEER, Taiwan has they're own distasteful, horrible root beer. There was also a little box of sugarless mints, each one has fifty tablets. When we were done shopping for soda and shirts, we went to a Japanese restaurant, the food was like seemed like Korean BBQ. The funny thing was that there was a butt washing machine, I couldn't activate it that was because I wasn't brave enough to sit on the seat and press the on button. The thing was my grandpa tried it and said it works. The last thing we did before going back to the ship was having nice cold shaved sugarcane ice, or at least I think that was what it is. So at last we went back to the cruise and rested.

very expensive watermelon...it's about $25/each in Japan

tasty shaved ice......Yummy

My dad ordered a Mango shaved ice