Taiwan Day 1 and 2!!!!!
Left Lax on Tuesday at 150am and arrived in taiwan on Wednesday at 6am.... we crossed the dateline. The Flight was 13 hours long... We were greeted by Dr Yeh, Irene and our RA's Kiki and Aki, loaded the cars and started the 1 hour drive to campus. Got to the dorms, we were given our rooms and we got settled. We had a TON of free time so we decided to take a little walk down to the water. The school is across the way from the ocean. At some time we traveled to a store to buy some snacks and stuff... that store was interesting... it was like a walmart. After the store we got ready for dinner. We went to fishermans wharf and had Japanese BBQ, it's pretty much korean BBQ. We didn't do much on our first day...everyone was dead tired after dinner, but stayed up a few more hours and played cards.
DAY 2...
We got up at 8am and walked over to the breakfast place. It started to rain on us, well more like sudden downpour... it's typhoon season and there was one heading in and no one bothered to tell us to prepare for it. Breakfast was so good, noodles are a great way to start the day.
After breakfast we had class at 9. It was orientation for us, we got introduced to the staff and they presented us with presents. They took us around the school and told us about it's history. We got to visit the church on campus and watched a grand organ performance. It was really cool to see something as big as this organ. We went and saw a few more structures and then we meet at the library to meet our exchange partners. I was given three, Karen, Ann and Mandy. Karen and Ann took me to lunch and we had Akgi(i don't know if that's spelled correctly) It was green bean noodles stuffed inside a tofu shell with a "bbq" sauce and broth. It was good...very filling. Afterwards they took me down to Old Street to do some shopping...I found a few gifts.... and will go back to get more.
Through out the day, it's raining off and on. Very strong winds, broken umbrellas everywhere... it's really crazy. Everyone is drenched from head to toe and dirty. I don't have very proper shoes to be wearing in a typhoon.
Then we visited San Domingo which is kinda like a fort, where early settlers used as offices and stuff... It had a great view and of course we were the most amused by a pair of giant clogs.
Afterwards, we hung out with our exchange partners again and braved more rain. Went to a cafe and had our first drink of the trip. And then back to Old Street... we had to meet at the metro station at a certain time so we could walk to dinner. We had dinner at a thai restaurant... it wasn't amazing food but it was good. After dinner we went with a few people over to a night market. It was that fun and we had been going all day non stop and we were all ready to shower and sit.
It's currently 1030 am in taiwan, class is cancelled today because of the typhoon it's raining really hard and really windy.... i think we are going to try to brave the weather and go to karaoke. Should be interesting.
I know this may not make sense...but this is kinda more for me. I don't care if there is poor grammar and stuff but whatevs
DAY 2...
We got up at 8am and walked over to the breakfast place. It started to rain on us, well more like sudden downpour... it's typhoon season and there was one heading in and no one bothered to tell us to prepare for it. Breakfast was so good, noodles are a great way to start the day.
After breakfast we had class at 9. It was orientation for us, we got introduced to the staff and they presented us with presents. They took us around the school and told us about it's history. We got to visit the church on campus and watched a grand organ performance. It was really cool to see something as big as this organ. We went and saw a few more structures and then we meet at the library to meet our exchange partners. I was given three, Karen, Ann and Mandy. Karen and Ann took me to lunch and we had Akgi(i don't know if that's spelled correctly) It was green bean noodles stuffed inside a tofu shell with a "bbq" sauce and broth. It was good...very filling. Afterwards they took me down to Old Street to do some shopping...I found a few gifts.... and will go back to get more.
Through out the day, it's raining off and on. Very strong winds, broken umbrellas everywhere... it's really crazy. Everyone is drenched from head to toe and dirty. I don't have very proper shoes to be wearing in a typhoon.
Then we visited San Domingo which is kinda like a fort, where early settlers used as offices and stuff... It had a great view and of course we were the most amused by a pair of giant clogs.
Afterwards, we hung out with our exchange partners again and braved more rain. Went to a cafe and had our first drink of the trip. And then back to Old Street... we had to meet at the metro station at a certain time so we could walk to dinner. We had dinner at a thai restaurant... it wasn't amazing food but it was good. After dinner we went with a few people over to a night market. It was that fun and we had been going all day non stop and we were all ready to shower and sit.
It's currently 1030 am in taiwan, class is cancelled today because of the typhoon it's raining really hard and really windy.... i think we are going to try to brave the weather and go to karaoke. Should be interesting.
I know this may not make sense...but this is kinda more for me. I don't care if there is poor grammar and stuff but whatevs