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Celia Silverstein Joined: July 21st 2009
Logged in: August 16th 2009
Logged in: August 16th 2009
Travel Blog Posts
I'm already about a month into the trip so I've decided to post my journal entry. Although, me being me, I only had one entry.... Yesterday I arrived in Taipei. I have decided to spend two months at the Mandarin Training Center at NTNU studying, of all things, Mandarin. I flew out of SFO on Monday at 1:35 AM and got in on Tuesday at 5:30 AM. Pretty crazy, right? I managed to find my way into Taipei and to Aunt Sue’s best friend’s house without too much trouble. The only slip up I made was letting the taxi driver leave with the paper with all of Jasmina’s phone numbers and address on it. Uh oh. Thankfully, I have Sue’s mother’s cell phone with me and, after calling a few numbers, I was able to get ... read more
I didn't do too much this past weekend, but I was able to get some of the places crossed off my sightseeing to-do list. On friday, after class, a couple classmates and I went to Ximending (think the Taipei equivalent of Times Square of Picadilly Circus, except with more teenage girls) to a Shisha bar. Going at about 5:30PM ensured that we were the only customers, which was kind of cool. After the bar, we hit up a McDonalds, which over here is a popular hang out spot, and then went back to the dorms to get ready for a night of clubbing. The club we went to was called Luxy, and its one of the biggest clubs in Taipei. I only know these things through word of mouth though because, being the scatter brain that ... read more
