Well everyone I didn't think I would posting as much as I am, but I know how fun it is to read someone's blog, and I enjoy telling you about what I'm doing.
Well I guess you could say I'm STARTING to get used to it over here. Whenever I am alone, that's when it's the worst. When I'm alone all I want to be is at home. So I'm trying to stay busy over here, it's a little hard when classes don't start for another week or so, but there is plenty to see in Taipei.
So let's see, where did I leave off last time? Saturday night was pretty fun. I'll start off by saying that I have never been surrounded by so many people from so many countries. It's a dream come true. Saturday night we had a group of probably 18 people from all the different universities around Taipei. My roommates Alex and Filip have been here for 6 months already and have made friends from other universities. Anyways, we had a group of probably 18 people, people from Czech Republic, France, Spain, Guatemala, Austria, Sweden, Finland, and than me, the only American lol. We walked around Taipei and we kind of split up and grabbed a bite to eat at different food stands. I forgot my camera that night, but I had some traditional Taiwanese cuisine, it was like fried pork, with some type of noodles and a weird sauce, I wish I had a picture to show you because it is kind of hard to explain, but it was actually fairly good. For desert I got a strawberry smoothie, it was excellent!
Sunday was definitely a very lazy day. Alex and Filip are in classes right now and they had homework to do, so we all just kind of stayed in and hung out. For supper, we headed out to Gongguan district which is only about a ten minute walk from our campus. We went to the part of town where there are restaurants that are more from around the world rather than Taiwanese cuisine. You can only have so much Taiwanese cuisine before you have to get some normal food! We ended up at a restaurant called Sababa which is a Turkish restaurant. I was kind of bummed at first because I had never had Turkish food before and I was excited to eat something relatively normal! But, I ended up getting a chicken dish that was 很好吃 (delicious)! We went out with the normal crew, my roommates Alex, Filip, Tuukka and his girlfriend Emilia from a different university. Great time. Alex and Filip than showed us another university called National Taiwan University, which is the most prestigious university in Taiwan. The campus was beautiful! Don't get me wrong, our campus is very nice, but this campus was unbelievable! We strolled through there for awhile and than headed back to the dorm.
Like I said earlier, I think I am beginning to get used to the life over here. This morning I woke up pretty early and walked to the 7/11 and picked up a coffee. I think this will become a daily routine for me, reminds me of home. I'm glad I have some awesome roommates, I don't know what it would be like without them.
Orientation today and my placement test! Wish me luck!
If you haven't seen the pictures on facebook, get on there!
晚上好！
杜開 (Kyle)
Hi Kyle!
ReplyDeleteGot your blog visa the GVSU group on Facebook. You're right, the hardest part is this feeling:
"Well I guess you could say I'm STARTING to get used to it over here. Whenever I am alone, that's when it's the worst. When I'm alone all I want to be is at home. So I'm trying to stay busy over here, it's a little hard when classes don't start for another week or so, but there is plenty to see in Taipei."
But, you know, there's plenty of GVSU people over here! So if you ever want a taste of home or to rant about how ridiculous taxi drivers are (IT'S A RED LIGHT, STOP GOOD GOD STOP!) or just reminisce from home, we're always around for you!
At any rate, I am sure you'll enjoy your time here and keep on truckin'! I look forward to future posts :D
Good luck on your placement test! It's fine if you don't do so well, in some ways it is nice working back up through the ranks (as I did, testing only into Book 2 after studying 3 years at GVSU :O).