Meet the MLB player

My hostdad took Nick and me to visit his friend, Andy Benes. Andy is a famous baseball player. He used to play for the Padres, Cardinals, Diamondbacks, Mariners, and even in the American National team.



The basement in his house was filled with a lot of baseball stuff such as uniforms and pictures. He had many balls which were signed by the other famous baseball players, like A-Rod, Barry Bonds, Sammy Sosa, and Frank Thomas.



Andy also told us about his history of playing baseball, that was amazing. I 'm crazy about baseball, and Andy brought me into MLB world. Thank you Andy! Thanks Hostdad!



It's time to say goodbye now. We are going back to Taiwan. I wrote a Thank You Card (A card with Chinese 謝謝 on it.) to my host family to show my appreciation and thanks. I really had a wonderful time staying with them. I took some pictures with hostmom, hostdad, hostsister and even hostdogs. My hostdad drove me to the airport. I waved at them and walked away...I didn't feel sad, because I believe that we will get together someday in the future. When I said "See you!" to Nick at his house, I knew I will see him again for sure.

I would like to thank all the people who made my American trip came true. Teacher Marlisa, Teacher Vicky, Miss Moore, Mr. Mulvihill , my parents, all the other students' parents and my host famiy. Without you, I won't have such wonderful trip in the US.

Xanadu Auction

There was a public auction held in Priory today. Many people came to the gym and shopped here. They could get some food next door when they were hungry.



Nick and I volunteered to be the waiters. It was the first time for me to be a waiter and served for Americans. We served the delicious food for the guests. But we were not allowed to eat anything. I did a pretty good job, I think.



The feelings of serving people was great. It was a special experiance for me!

Hockey game

Nick took me to the hockey game on Friday night. It was crazy that the game started at 9:30 p.m. I think there won't be many people in the gym, but I was wrong. I saw 80% of our classmates there. Everyone loves to watch hockey game although it was late.



The players skated over the ice, and we cheered for them. Our voice was so powerful" Here we go Rebels, here we go!!!" When Priory scored, we yelled, hug with others, and knocked the glasses, that was pretty crazy. I never had a chance to do that in Taipei.


The fans which support the other team tried to provoke us, I didn't like their arrogant attitude. Then we shouted at them, "Get out of here!" Doing that makes me feel better. At last, we won the game, I think they should go home quietly.

I have finished the class in Priory

We can sleep longer at Thursday because we don't have to go to church today and the class starts at 9 o' clock. Today's Math class was interesting, it was the first time for me to understandd what they were talking about. We went to the lab for the Chemistry class. I helped Nick pour some liquid into some bottles. We did it the same in our school in Taipei.


I saw the final basketball game that Priory boys played today. The Priory boys are much shorter than the other team players. But the taller players didn't play as well as I thought. It was ridiculos that the taller players even played with the cleaners during the warm up time. Aren't they supposed to concentrate on their on game? Priory won the game easily.


Then, we went to a Mexican restaurant, the chips with the special sauce were awesome. We ate ice cream after dinner, there were many kinds of flavor, I ordered the mint flavor, it was different from Taiwan's. I ate a lot of ice cream here even it's winter time.

Farewell Dinner

We had a caligraphy class in this afternoon. We have to use the same side of the pen to write the words. Then the words will be very beautiful. I wasn't very good at this, but it was interesting. We always use the Chinese brush to do the caligraphy in Taiwan, and now we tried another way to write the words. I got a new experience today. I have many new experiences here every day.







Time flies. The farewell dinner party is coming. I felt a little sad. Three weeks aren't enough for us and we are going to leave here soon. I saw many pictures of us on the party. A lot of smiling faces on the pictures. We all had a great time here in Saint Louis. Every host family made a short speech on the party. My hostdad's speech really empressed me. He thinks I am the gift from the God and his family really enjoyed staying with me. He made me feel I'm special. It's unbelieveable that I was accepted by a foreign family. Thank you! Hostdad!

food bank

I had no idea what the food bank was, when we arrived at the place. I finally found out that we have to send some food out to help the poor people. Our job was to check if the food containers were broken and the food was in good condition and put those food in the boxes. It wasn't so interesting to do such a job, but we could help thousands of poor people. We should be proud of ourselves. We have won the honor!!!!




We worked until 12 o' clock, they gave us a paper which told us we had helped 5000 people, so cool!!! Then we ate some pizza for celebrating our merits.



Nick had a basketball game in the other school in the evening. I saw a trumpet team performing in the gym, and there was a cheer leader attracted me. Even they had a big vantage, but Priory still won the game!
I think Nick was the MVP of the game, he had free throw at the last 5 seconds, and got two points, and the team led 4 points ahead.

super ball

Super Ball Game!! I went to a party with some Priory boys. There was a paper with many grilles, we had to pay $2.5 for each person, and wrote down our names and put the numbers on top of the paper. Whoever got the final game points, he would win the money, so that was a small bet.



We went outside to play football first. It was difficult for me to play cause I didn't know the rules. Our team was strong enough to win the game! After the game, someone threw the snowballs to us and then we started playing snowballs. Americans' arms are very strong and powerful, they can throw very fast and so far away.



I love the game named "guitar hero". Four people played at the same time was really cool. After playing the "guitay hero", the ball game started. The Cardinals team is our favorite of course, but they lost points at the beginning. At the second part of the game, they transcended their opponent. At the last 35 seconds, they lost the ball again, so Cardinals lost. They were a little upset. My host brother won the money. I asked him wether it was legal or not. He said that it was OK. Such a crazy ball game, really excited!!!