Blogs from Taichung, Taiwan, Asia - page 6

It's Sunday afternoon and I just got back not long ago from a quick trip to Taipei. Myself as well as 4 other friends decided to get away from school for the weekend, and what a weekend it was! We packed a lot into less than 48 hours. It all started Friday afternoon after classes. We left not long after classes ended. After getting to Taipei, we checked in at our hostel and headed over to Taipei 101. We got back pretty late from Taipei 101, so we went straight back to the hostel. On Saturday we slept in (until 8:30 for the girls, 10 am for the guys) and then made our way to Fort San Domingo. It was originally built during Dutch colonization and then taken over by the British. It isn't the original ... read more

This past week has been the hardest week (school wise) to date. I had multiple tests/quizzes everyday and Friday was the worst. However, I had a light at the end of the tunnel-Harry Potter. But more on that later. Last Sunday we went to this great little pizzeria in a section of town called-not surprisingly-Little Italy. Their pizza was as good, if not better, than some of the pizza I've had at home. On Tuesday we went to this Indian restaurant/bar. I was quite worried I wouldn't be able to eat anything(with my horrible dislike of anything mildly spicy) but the cook was very respectful of my wishes for 'very mild'. That was a pricey dinner (as was the pizza) but it was definitely worth it. On Friday afternoon, Tashi and his Taiwanese roommates took us ... read more

I have internet in my room now. I've spent a good amount of time uploading a lot of my pictures, but not onto this site. You can only upload photos one at a time on this site, and that was a no-go with 115 pictures. The link to my pictures is: http://lifewithmeghan.myphotoalbum.com/ Enjoy! The link is also in my profile, so don't worry about losing the address.... read more

Finally the end of my time in Taiwan has come. Thinking back to some of the rough parts of the year I never thought I could make it to this day. I am so happy and excited to be going home, but I am sad to leave this place I called home for the past year. There have been ups and downs and good and bad. I hope to block out the bad and only remember the good of the island known as Formosa. This place has offered me endless travel opportunities each weekend and there are new things to discover around every corner. There is no way you can know what Taiwan is until you have spent some significant time here, learning and discovering. When people first arrive most only spend time in the ... read more

Most of you know that I'm in Taiwan for two months, but noteveryone knows that I'm here essentially to go to summer school. I'm going to summer school, in Taiwan. Every weekday I have classes from 8 am-12 noon. Four hours sounds intense, but it's not 4 solid hours of classes. The first class of the day is usually an hour long. Then we take a break between each class, which, as the breaks start growing longer throughout the morning, classes shorten a little. So we go to class but then get to chat or check email inbetween classes. They have a really nice little computer room here, which I take advantage of often. The teachers are all pretty cool. Three of them are sisters and share the last name, so we call them the equivelent ... read more

finally have internet now. I moved to a different room today too. The school wanted to consolidate all the kids staying for the summer. It was a day from Hell, in all honesty. I didn't have that much stuff, but my roommate, who is also staying for the summer and is moving to a different room, has TONS AND TONS of stuff. Not only that, but our building was as far back in the corner of the womans' area as you could go. There was no path without stairs, so using the carts they provided did little to help. However, after sweating 3 gallons of my body weight and moving to the wrong room, I am finally here. Thank goodness! This room is much bigger, and it appears as thought I will only have one roomate ... read more