A Hiking Trip in The Flower Season

This is a picture of body painting. We went hiking in a flower blooming season. The county government held a lot of activities there. We collected stamps on the hiking trials in order to get a free gift which I chose a box of cookies. This is a good idea to encourage people to exercise and get to close to the nature. People also could have their body painted with the flowers. I got one on my arm. Some of my friends got two or three painting on their faces and arms, too. They attracted people’s attention wherever we went. I did not think of having it on my face because I easily sweat a lot. I don’t exaggerate. It is true that you can see the raining on my face.

My hand is on the second right with two flowers on it. We were lucky to get it for free. Before we could have them on our arms, there was a Taiwanese test. People lined up to speak a poem in Taiwanese. The poem was about the flowers and the fireflies. Tourists can see the beautiful scenery of flower sea at day time. The fireflies would show up at night. Some friends and I can speak daily Taiwanese conversation. For us, poems are somehow quite different and more difficult. I secretly listened how other people spoke and learned it with my friends in a couple of minutes. Of course we passed the test. Everyone got to have painting for free. It did not take long time to paint the flowers. The painters looked so professional. They painted with the confident. No fear of making any mistakes. It was exciting for me, because it was the first time to have a painting on my body. I usually watch the body painting on TV or the newspaper. It feels far away from my reality. I am not good at painting and I would not dream that I will paint on the body or be painted. This dream came true unexpectedly.

After the hiking, we went to a restaurant for a late lunch. The reason we did not eat there was the hot and humid weather. There were street vendors only. Most of them preferred a place with air-conditioned. We finally got to eat lunch around 3:00. The day trip was fun and I did not want to take a bath that night. I hope I could keep the painting. It was pity to wash it off. (415)