Yeah, I am in a little rut. Things are finally sinking in, I still don't have a phone so that may be one of the things I need to fix soon. I'm starting to get in the hang of things, I met a classmate named Ivan, who is really nice, and is friends with all the other exchange students. I got a new Chinese name, 湯哲明 which is "湯- for Thomas" "哲- Philosophy" "明- bright, positive" I talked with one of my Chinese teachers and I told her I disliked my current Chinese name, so I told her some stuff and she thought up of two. I really like that one so It's a keeper :3. Nothing exciting has happened in the weeks since my last update, but this week has been really interesting. Let's start with Monday.
Alright, this Monday I thought was going to be another boring Monday, but I was wrong. I woke up at 05:30 and got ready for school and left the house at around 06:40 to go to classes that start at 08:30, even though I live only a couple minutes from the house. Long story and I shouldn't share it with the public. ANYWAYS, I read my book for a few hours, getting into the story and all and start seeing classmates for my Chinese class. So we chat-chit for a while and start our classes. During lunch we saw a BUNCH of foreigners at our school, and it really interested me. I met a few and chat-chit with them for a bit, then went to my class. My Life Prep class was rather boring, and didn't like it. I asked to go to the infirmary to sleep since I had a headache. So after class, I tried to find the foreigners, and didn't find them, so I guessed that they were busy with whatever, and I watched some basketball. So I see them come out of the student building, and wait for a little bit for them to get comfortable where they were sitting and went up to them, and found out they were from America.
I need a new paragraph.
So it was pretty cool some of them were from the states, and two people were from Jackson, Wyoming. That's pretty darn close to Idaho, we are like neighbors. Only a few hours from Boise. So I took some of them to a bakery and they got some delicious treats. Anyways, that's it for my Monday, chat-chit with them a bit, and other things. Tuesday was REALLY boring, except I had my fish burrito, so I'm happy.
Wednesday, today is 10/10. Double 10. Taiwan's birthday. Why am I using so many periods? Fraction sentences! What'cha gonna do about it English teachers? Just kidding, I love you guys. Today I woke up at 06:00, left the house at 06:40, ran to the MRT, met up with some exchange students, went to Taipei City Hall station and met up with more. We did some festivities and had some fun. I was going to post pictures, but that's not happening, taking too long, just look on my Facebook album, sorry. Anyways, two other exchange students and I go to Ximen, and they go shopping for earrings, and we get some food and see a movie....
This movie was terrible. Oh my gosh, it's just ugh. I need holy water to cleanse my eyes. It was just terrible! Think of all the movies Nicholas Cage was in(excluding National Treasures since those were pretty good, I don't think there are any others) and this movie makes those movies look good! It was called, Upside Down, or something like that. I don't know. My friends said we were going to go see it, and one of them didn't see Taken 1, and wouldn't understand, so we just saw that. It was only around $6.66. So not too much money wasted. Anyways, the movie was bad, and the theatre was meh. You have assigned seats, and since the movie theatre was full, people wanted their stupid seats. We got asked to move around like 3 times, and we ended up in our seats, in the back corner, lovely. I think that was my worst experience with a movie theatre. Oh well, it's not like I need to go to them :p.
After the movie we took the MRT to the end of the red line, to a place called Tamsui(pronounced Danshui) and we spent a good few hours there. We met up with an exchange student and he accompanied us there. We got some good food, and shopped, and looked around. So the original two were there on a mission to buy something, and they got what they wanted, but the third got a something too, so they all had their somethings on and took pictures. Something= mask. They were getting pictures left and right, and we got a bunch of pictures taken. I didn't get a mask so I didn't photobomb the picture being the only white person without a mask. So I stood to the side. Anyways I had a bunch of fun with them and it was funny in general.
So on the way home on the MRT, somebody fell over, people were looking at us, and we stood all the way from Tamsui to Shandao Temple. The girls didn't though. A little kid was staring at us the whole time, we were watching one of my friends play Minesweeper. Yeah pretty eventful day I have to think. Check out the pictures on my Facebook, there's a link on the side, if you didn't notice that(I hope you did). OH today we saw a Neil Patrick Harris look a like. It was cool.
I think that's it, a little update, only three days, but it was quite a bit. I think I kind of ranted though. Oh well. I'm still thinking of a vlog schedule. I don't know, maybe just whenever I want. I want them to be consistent, but it's more effort. I should stop being lazy. I need to get quite a few things. Phone, camera, webcam. Maybe I will use my iPhone. I'm not sure, it's good video quality, I checked it out. I can also do walking vlogs too, show you around and stuff. It might be a good idea :). I will test it out. Well, I'll see you in the next update!
