Dear friends,
My host family took me, Dan, and Dani to make dumplings at their house today. We boiled the dumplings and they were delicious. Afterwards, we tossed/kicked around a ball before heading out to Kaohsiung Seaport. The seaport reminded me a lot of New York's Pier 21. Kaohsiung's seaport is an industrial cargo port, though, whereas New York's pier is mainly a fish pier if I remember correctly. The area we went to had many factories and coal firing plants. My host mom told me that the villagers that used to live there were paid to leave by the government because it was not healthy to live near the large factories. The pier was still pretty and peaceful, despite the pollutants in the air.

All of us making dumplings

At the seaport, the control tower is shaped as the Chinese character "Gao" for Kaohsiung. After we visited the seaport, we went to a special place where you can watch the airplanes land & take-off while drinking beverages. I thought it was a bit strange at first, but once I saw what this special place was, I liked it very much. The special place is basically an outdoor cafe right beside an airplane landing strip.

It's very cool because they played music from the movie Cape No. 7 (see previous blog) while you were sitting outside sipping your mango sherbert drink or cafe latte. I never thought I'd be excited watching an airplane land & take-off, but it was pretty amazing. You can see pictures of the outdoor cafe in this album.

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