When your dreams come true

I didn't mention it before but the first reason why I wanted to learn Chinese was because I am a big fan of asian dramas and my favourite one is taiwanese: 下一站幸福 (Autumn's concerto). But also my favourite singer is Taiwanese too! 羅志祥 or Show Luo is a tv host, a singer and an actor famous around Asia (but not in South Korea you can guess why) I discovered in a taiwanese drama 海派甜心 (Hi my sweetheart) 5 or 6 years ago.

Coming to Taiwan of course I had the not so secret hope to be able to meet my favourite idol... but I couldn't imagine I could do so that fast, not a month after I arrived!

Following Show Luo's SNS my eyes catched a post (all in Chinese of course) with many dates and hours in different places. I asked everyone I could for help in order to understand the content of this post and it came out that Show Luo's new album was out and there was a special event: buy the new album, go to meet Show Luo, get your album signed and get two tickets for his concert in Taichung on the 20th of December. But that was not all, buy 3 albums and you can take a picture with him, buy 5 albums and you can take a picture AND HUG HIM! xD On the date of the fan meeting in Taipei I was to be in South Korea... so I decided to go on an other date in another city: Taichung! So that I would be a little familiar with the transportation to go back on the 20th for the concert. Not so bad idea right?

But now you must wonder how I can buy transportation tickets to Taichung and do all the way to there with my still really poor Chinese. With a little help from the locals (really really really nice people once again^^) and a bit of crazyness everything seems possible here! I mean, 7-11 are so great you can do quite everything in there x) if you are a little bit sensitive about filling your credit card info on the internet there is no problem: you can select the "pay in 7-11" option and you can also select "deliver in 7-11" and select the closest one to your place. That's what I did for the train tickets to Taichung and to buy Show Luo's albums. Soooo convenient right? I just love it~ Just be aware that you may have to pay by cash (that was the case for the CDs).


So yesterday was the day I went to Taichung. The event was to start at 4:30pm but I thought it would be wiser to go early and reached Taichung around 11:30am. I was really lucky to make friend with a really nice taiwanese guy on a penpal website who happened to live in Taichung and proposed himself to give me a ride on his "old stupid scooter" from the train station to the fan meeting... I still can't believe how taiwanese people can be that nice!

Taipei main station

This is a HSR train ticket!

You just need to scan the QR code on your ticket when you enter and leave the station. Don't lose it!

Everything is written in English so that you can find your train easily~

Find your car,

Wait in line for the cleaning to be done,

Then find your seat!

Taichung HSR train station

5 stops from Taipei: 1 hour only!

Not far away from the department store there was a Simple life festival: singing or sport performances, cool stuff to buy, etc...

I went for the roselle ice cream ^-^

Time to queue...

In order to leave the place clean after the event the staff asked us to give them our trash! Wow

I was fearing the anarchy once Show Luo got there but since we had numbers that was just great! Not like Kpop concerts or fan meetings where people just get crazy... that's one of the reason I don't like Kpop anymore.

I first got my concert tickets,

Got my CDs signed and shook Show Luo's hand *.*

And then my mind just went blank xD I could just say "xiexie" and didn't even look at the camera ahahah

I was so happy that after 5-6 years I could finally meet Show Luo! I never thought I could! It's a shame I could only show a stupid smile and say I was French and thank you... but that's okay I guess since I got my hug from him~ x)

That done, I found back my friend who got me to a soup restaurant. That was just great because this week I was actually thinking that I wanted to eat soup and was wondering where I could find a good one to buy!

This is the set: two bowl of soup and bread, rice or the third secret choice only old customers know about for around 6 euros =P

Honey pumkin soup, russian beef soup and rice for me! Yummy!

And then it was time to go back catch my train to Taipei. This day was just awesome! Now I need to go back to earth and do my homeworks... xD

Believe in your dreams! Anything can happen in this world~ who knows what tomorrow will bring?

Thank you for reading my blog!

Floppy