Surfing Taiwan...

Sunday, June 14th I went surfing with Julia, Shuwei and Simon. We left from Guting (my MRT Station) early in the morning. I had a thousand (at least it felt like that) mosquito bites...
We drove around an hour and after waiting around in the Surfshop a little we finally went down to the water.
Shuwei ( He is taiwanese, but is teaching himself German) first explained everything to me before we went into the water. Then it still sounded easy, just paddeling and jumping up...

But its not that easy when you actually have to do it in the water. I got a shirt to wear, which I did thanks to Julias recommendations that I might loose my bikini.
Then we went into the water. In the beginning it was hard to stay on the board because I wasnt used to it and you really need to lay in the middle.
Shuwei helped me at first by pushing the board whenever there was a wave because it is really hard to get the necessary speed through paddeling. Most of the times I wasnt fast enough but at least I managed to stand on the board for around 1 sec :) several times.

We stayed in the water but sometimes we were just laying there paddeling and going back when the current had put us to the other part of the beach.
For lunch we had lunchboxes with rice, vegetable and meat / egg (which was traded some ..;)

After that we went back into the water..since the wind was kind of cold it was better to stay in the water cause it was warmer. But I didnt really manage to catch many waves after that (you always lay close to the beach on your board waiting for the waves to come, when u see one you start paddeling but you need to get some speed, then when you feel the wave you need to stand up..but it only works if you were fast enough) because I was too slow :(

But in any case surfing was a lot of fun..until we started meeting a lot of JELLY FISH...we really didnt like that. Julia caught the first one and then we all followed...I tried to set a record on how many jellyfish can sting you and Shuweis sister got the worst. This was when we stopped.

After that we went back to the Surfshop to shower, chill out and afterwards went out to eat Japanese style food... ( Simon set a Wasabi record with his Sashimi and Julia was too tired to eat. And there was a taiwanese girl..she was able to eat much more than me SURPRISED that someone like that exists ;)

It was a fun sunday...and surfing is a really cool sport ...also I didnt enjoy the jelly fish and my soared muscles afterwards as much...;)

pictures will follow...