2 weeks in Taiwan : Chiang Kai Shek and Liberty Square

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On my first day in Taiwan we went to visit Chiang Kai Shek memorial. The memorial is in Liberty Square with the national concert hall and the national theater. In 1945, Chiang Kai Shek engaged in a civil war against the Chinese his government was forced to retreat to Taiwan. His government however maintain the will to take back main land China. At the memorial, we saw the change of guards. That's a rather long and complicated process in which the guard perform a kind of choreography with their carbine.
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Sakura week-end

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This week-end was mostly about Sakura. We were supposed to go to 新宿御苑 on Saturday but as it was raining, and international students are supposedly made of sugar (so sweet but melting with the rain) they decided to cancel. So as I was at the meeting point already me and one courageous friend decided to walk to 深大寺 to see Sakura anyway. But we actually stopped at the river on the way and then as we crossed it in the middle without taking the bridge, we got a little wet and decided to walk back.
Then today as it was sunny we finally went to 新宿御苑 for our picnic. It was highly crowed but hopefully we arrived early enough to find a place to sit and eat under the Sakura trees.
新宿御苑 has a lot of different kind of Sakuras with different colors so we took a walk to see them and the ponds in the park.
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Saturday morning's Sakura

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Different types of Sakura

     


     


     


     


     


     

2 weeks in Taiwan : Introduction, arrival

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On the 20th of March I left for Taiwan without too much preparation. All I really knew was that I was going to stay with one friend and possibly meet with some other during the 2 weeks of my stay there. I didn't do any preparation so I didn't know what to see. I kind of left so suddenly that I even forgot my toothbrush and at to get a new one when I arrived.
I arrived in the early afternoon and went for coffee with my friend before going to her place. After not seeing each other for 2 years we had a lot of time to catch up.
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여름향기 (Summer scent)

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여름향기 is a Korean drama in 20 episodes from 2003.

Shim Hye Won is suffering from a heart deceases and had had a heart transplant few years ago, she can then live normally and run as she always wanted. She has been raised by her parents' friends and is now to be engaged to their son Park Jung Jae. Yoo Min Woo's love Soh Eun Hye died few years ago in a car accident and he never could managed to forget her until the day when he falls in love with Hye Won who behave strangely more like Eun Hye than like herself.



I like especially the music in this drama and the fact that Hye Won's heart recognizes Min Woo, it's like loving without reason just because your body is telling you that it's the right thing to do even when everything else is against it. Love doesn't need to reason to be here, it just needs to be felt. I can totally understand why Hye Won and the people around thought that she was becoming crazy but it's not the heart that made her a new person behaving differently than her own self, it's love itself.


Casting :
 송승헌 as Yoo Min Woo (가을동화 Autumn tales, He was cool)
손예진 as Shim Hye Won (외출 (外出, April Snow), 천년여우 여우비 (Yobi, the five tailed fox))
류진 as Park Jung Jae
한지혜 as Park Jung Ah (B형 남자친구, My boyftiend is type B)
신애 as Soh Eun Hye
조은숙 as Oh Jang Mi
안정훈 as Ji Dae Poong
김해숙 as Yoo Min Woo's mother (겨울연가 Winter sonata, 가을동화 Autumn tales)

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