Taiwan 环岛 15-day trip is ON!

I've been wanting to go Taiwan sooooooo baaadly since i was young. and today i finally booked my flight ticket! and it's gonna be a backpacking trip as for my grad trip on my own :DD the highlight of the trip is that i am actually planing to go for couch surfing (沙发客) during the trip, it's something like homestay, you can send requests to all those who offer a couch/bed for travelers from all over the world :) if things go well, then you get to stay over at their houses for free!! if time allows, the hosts might be kind enough to show their guest around :) you can save $$$ and get to know more interesting people at the same time :))  

actually i just got this idea like 24 hours ago, and tadaaa! it's on! at first i was planning to go on the grad trip with a bunch of people, but seems like everybody couldn't really make up their mind on which country to go. meanwhile, i went on to the couch surfing website, connecting with some random members from Taiwan and asking for their advices on the itinerary. one of them sent me a link, a blog which  is about a story of a young girl from Beijing traveled alone to Taiwan, and all the amazingly kind and friendly people that she met there! she looks so tiny in the pictures, yet she has a very big heart to pursuit her dreams. i spent the entire night reading her blogs, at the end, i decided to go for a trip like hers to mark the very end of the16 years of my study life :) although i never been to any trip alone before, her words are so powerful and insightful that give me all the courage that i need. 

quotes from her blog: 

"每个人在不同的年纪，心里都会有一个梦想，这个梦想无关于年纪，却关乎是否足够珍惜，足够努力。曾经认为最大的障碍是签证，也曾在各路签证专家面前放话“不管用什么办法，不管花多少钱，我只要结果！”。可是当我已经知道了签证OK，机票OK，旅行费OK，赞助商OK，家人也OK的时候，我突然发现，一直不OK的是自己的心。

我们把梦想放在心里有多久了？三年？十年？二十年？梦想，一直是梦想，直到梦想快要变成了幻想的时候，才拿出来挂在天边，仰望星空的时候，也叹息着梦想与现实的距离。“我还没有足够的钱”、“我妈妈会很担心”、“一个人出去遇见坏人怎么办？”“勇敢有神马用，失身了怎么办？”于是我们都空着手跑出来，听别人惊险的故事，看别人刺激的照片，奉上我们艳羡的目光，然后回到自己的小房间里默默感伤。梦想，什么时候变成了一个需要下很大决心才可以完成的事情，为什么不能拔地而起，为什么不能决然长空……

年轻的时候，就应该为自己的梦想冲动一次！这样老了之后才能有回忆的东西啊！"

(http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/articlelist_1528394563_9_1.html)

i'm not sure if i am capable of traveling alone, effectively communicating with all the people that i may meet, i'm really not sure of that. but there's one thing that is certain, i dont want to leave a question to myself, wondering if backpacking alone is suitable for me or not, until i never get the chance to find out the answer. sometimes when we know that we are about to make a mistake, we are actually not sure of that. we can only find out that it's really a mistake after we have made the mistake. if i ever want to find out the answer, i believe that this would be the time :)