We're Here!!

After a 30 minute plane delay and a 13 hour flight, the ROCKHarbor Taiwan team (minus Jen) arrived at the Taipei International Airport early yesterday morning. We were greeted by workers and youth volunteers from our partner, Banner Church. After changing our money, we hopped on the Taiwan High Speed Rail and got to Taichung, which would have taken 2 and half hours by bus, in 30 minutes!! This is the same type of bullet train they have in Japan.

When we arrived in Taichung, we had a brief moment to collect ourselves before we took off in a couple of vans to Sun Moon Lake, a lake an hour and half away from Taichung. There, we visited a longstanding temple (see below),


went swimming in the lake (the water was perfect), and went up top of a high pagoda where the weather/time of day gave us a perfect view of the lake and the surrounding hills.




We were all pretty tired by the end of the day and were glad to be able to go to our host family homes to rest for the night.

For me, what was interesting this time was that coming here didn't feel new anymore. iIt feels like this place is already an extension of my home. It's good to be back.

-Wes