First independent weekend
Saturday September 8 Today Brent and I went back to the Living Mall. We wanted to see a movie. At this mall there is Cinemark Theaters. We watched Ratatouille. It was VIP, which I'm not exactly sure what it means, but all I know is that the theater had a different entrance and we get free popcorn. The actual theater was kind of small and it was assigned seats. The movie was cute, though I don't want rats cooking my food. Before the movie, we just walked around the mall. We found out that they have bungee jumping inside the mall. We saw 2 people separately bungee jump off a cat walk at the very top of the building. We had already started going downstairs when the second person jumped so we weren't able to get good pics. But it was cool and very scary. We ate dinner at a Thai restaurant, although they didn't understand me when I asked them to bring us our drinks.
Sunday September 9 Ate teppanyaki for lunch. The one down the street from my apartment has been the best one I've eaten at plus they have good tea(and I don't usually drink tea). Unfortunately its not like in the states where I usually get Hibachi Shrimp or they put on a show. You get cabbage and bean sprouts for free and then choose what to eat. Also it doesn't have a lot of choices, but the Sirloin Steak is really good and theres also only one type of chicken, ginger chicken. The shrimp has the shell and I don't like having to peel it. Good food but lots of sodium. Not very healthy. Then we decided to go check out another mall, Breeze Center. We took the brown MRT line North one stop to Nanjing E. Road. Then walked down the road to the mall. It's a weird shaped mall. On one side it only reaches like 2 floors. But the other side reaches up to 9 floors. Theres is a huge book store, but its mostly Japanese stuff. Then at the top floor is a huge movie theater, Ambassador.
After the Breeze Center we walked down the street to Dunhua Rd., then walked up the road. This is a really pretty road. It's a very wide street with an island in the middle dividing both sides. And the trees line the sidewalks creating a canopy like appearance. At the intersection of the street we walked on and Dunhua Rd. there are small structures that actually cover stairs that lead under the street in order to cross the street. In each corner, on the structure, there were Van Gogh paintings on them. They were actually 3D. The reason is because there is a bank called Van Gogh Bank or something and I think there was one at that intersection. Anyway walked up the street saw the Taipei Arena and a huge mall called Asiaworld. Walked around the mall a bit waiting a bit more time until dinner. Guess where we ate at? Outback Steakhouse mmm yummy steak and baked potato. On the way home we passed by the same intersection and it lights up. Pretty. Somewhere down the street there was also this random zebra butt where a crosswalk light was on. Weird.
Wednesday September 12 I called Sylvia Chi to have dinner with her. She was an exchange student at school last year. This time took the Red/Green MRT line to Guting. Then met her outside the exit. It's where National Taiwan Normal University is at. That was the other school I was thinking of going to. Now I wouldn't normally do this, but I trusted she'd find a good place to eat. We went down this tiny street with a bunch of street vendors and then another smaller street that branched off. She found this tiny little restaurant. The food actually wasn't that bad. Fried chicken patty with like a hash brown side too. The dessert I didn't really care much for it was like tea flavored jelly.
Sunday September 9 Ate teppanyaki for lunch. The one down the street from my apartment has been the best one I've eaten at plus they have good tea(and I don't usually drink tea). Unfortunately its not like in the states where I usually get Hibachi Shrimp or they put on a show. You get cabbage and bean sprouts for free and then choose what to eat. Also it doesn't have a lot of choices, but the Sirloin Steak is really good and theres also only one type of chicken, ginger chicken. The shrimp has the shell and I don't like having to peel it. Good food but lots of sodium. Not very healthy. Then we decided to go check out another mall, Breeze Center. We took the brown MRT line North one stop to Nanjing E. Road. Then walked down the road to the mall. It's a weird shaped mall. On one side it only reaches like 2 floors. But the other side reaches up to 9 floors. Theres is a huge book store, but its mostly Japanese stuff. Then at the top floor is a huge movie theater, Ambassador.
After the Breeze Center we walked down the street to Dunhua Rd., then walked up the road. This is a really pretty road. It's a very wide street with an island in the middle dividing both sides. And the trees line the sidewalks creating a canopy like appearance. At the intersection of the street we walked on and Dunhua Rd. there are small structures that actually cover stairs that lead under the street in order to cross the street. In each corner, on the structure, there were Van Gogh paintings on them. They were actually 3D. The reason is because there is a bank called Van Gogh Bank or something and I think there was one at that intersection. Anyway walked up the street saw the Taipei Arena and a huge mall called Asiaworld. Walked around the mall a bit waiting a bit more time until dinner. Guess where we ate at? Outback Steakhouse mmm yummy steak and baked potato. On the way home we passed by the same intersection and it lights up. Pretty. Somewhere down the street there was also this random zebra butt where a crosswalk light was on. Weird.
Wednesday September 12 I called Sylvia Chi to have dinner with her. She was an exchange student at school last year. This time took the Red/Green MRT line to Guting. Then met her outside the exit. It's where National Taiwan Normal University is at. That was the other school I was thinking of going to. Now I wouldn't normally do this, but I trusted she'd find a good place to eat. We went down this tiny street with a bunch of street vendors and then another smaller street that branched off. She found this tiny little restaurant. The food actually wasn't that bad. Fried chicken patty with like a hash brown side too. The dessert I didn't really care much for it was like tea flavored jelly.