Like to reminisce about last summer in Taipei

It s been almost one month that I ve left from Taiwan. And this time, I am afraid to say that it has been a perminant leaving.  I dont have any plan on getting back to Taiwan for now and I already miss the days I had with my friends on the island.

I spent most of time of last summer in Taiwan and at end of the summer, I just could return to Turkey for my summer vacation. Because there was some works which I had to finish at that time.  I thought it would be a terrible summer due to the hot and wet bad weather of the city but I had a great summer instead.

What makes that summer unforgettable was to meet to  Mr. Atilla Kahveci who is working for our sister institute in USA and came to Taiwan to visit us. He stayed more than two months and we hosted him at our home. Because some of our friends were in Turkey for their vacation, so, our home was appropriate to stay for him. We asked him to stay with us and he didnt refuse.

There are three ways to know a person well: Travel with him/her, trust him/her with something  and live  with him/her at the same place for a certain time…

If you want to know a person well,  apply one of those ways, and no doubt that you will know that person pretty well if you use one of those ways..

I stayed with Mr. Kahveci more than two moths and I got know him pretty well.  Mr. Kahveci was at his 36 and had experienced many thing to share with us.. We loved to listen his experiences he had both in Taiwan and in USA. He had been in many countries, not only in USA and Taiwan, and he had many things to share.  

He used to live in Taiwan for almost  9 years and  he had many friends in Taiwan. During his stay, He has toured around the island to visit his old friends.

Mr. Kahveci loved to drink Mango milk beverage and Mango smoothie like we do. If you live in Taiwan, you have chance to drink any kind beverages throughout the four seasons. Almost every evening, we went out to buy drinks and got back to home to watch something while sipping our amazing mango smoothies. Passion fruit smoothie is also one of the best beverages you can drink in Taiwan. But here, I should admit that the most famous drink in Taiwan is Pearl Milk Tea (珍珠奶茶), not passion fruit and mango smoothie.

We always eat passion fruit  in a special way. We prepared a special mixture of ice-cream, passion fruit and banana.  It is so easy to prepare.

At first, getting a plate and cut the banana into small pieces and put them on the plate. Then cut the Turkish ice-cream (being sold in Taiwan) and put on the banana you placed on the plate and then pour the passion fruit on the top. It is ready to taste now.

I wish to have chance to spend such beautiful days one more time in the future. Of course, It would be a great time only if we could be in Taiwan in another summer time. Greetings to Kahveci from İstanbul and wish success to him in his life.