Tuesday, May 29, 2007

My first day

ok so taipei is cool. theres TONS of shops, like every street is packed with little stores selling fruit, or chinese food, or japanese food, or shoes. its ridiculous. and every 10 yards theres a coffee shop, they are obsessed with coffee. so my first day! exciting, um so its incredibly hot here, and super, super humid so i am pretty much sweating the entire day! yay! not my favorite part. but i went walking around all day despite how fucking hot it is, cuz im a baller :) and i actually got pretty well oriented with my immediate neighborhood, which i thought was pretty good! i ate some ramen at this japanese place, had some papaya milk, which is just milk blended with fresh papaya but it is way more delicious than it sounds... and just walked and walked looking at all the crazy shops. sooooo much food i could die and be like wow my version of heaven is just like taiwan. and theres tons of clothes, for cheap too! The family im staying with is really nice and they fed me dumplings and fruit so i like them already... however i have no friends here yet so its kind of boring alot of the time... and its hard speaking 90 % chinese! bc i dont really speak chinese.... tomorrow i register for classes! and ill probably walk around all day again, maybe ill try the subway system so i can see a new area...hmmmm. that is all. for now.