A bunch of us went to Modern Toilet for dinner last night. For those of you who've never heard of Modern Toilet, it's a bathroom-themed restaurant. You sit on toilets (non-functional; there were even warnings telling you not to use them as toilets) at glass-covered sinks/bathtubs, use TP as napkins, and eat out of toilet-shaped bowls. It was weird ( Read more... )

Four of us visited Yang Ming Shan National Park today, although we didn't actually go to the usual/typical tourist area. We planned to, but got sidetracked ( Read more... )

So I had the freshest shrimp (no, it didn't talk back to me. Not that kind of fresh) I've ever had today. How fresh? Well, it wasn't just raw, oh no. It was still kind of twitching. Yeah. I poked it and it moved its antennae ( Read more... )

Damn, two weeks have flown by. Nothing has really jumped out at me as a story to tell, but that's probably because I've been here three summers of the last four. I've spent a lot of time thinking the past two days, though, so I guess I have some stuff ( Read more... )

So I find myself back in Taiwan. Again. Anyway, as is my custom when I visit other countries for an extended period of time, I'll post stories as they occur ( Read more... )

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I was wandering the streets one afternoon when I come across an open-air market. Basically, street vendors everywhere. Nothing really that out of the ordinary. Well, I'm walking and I pass by a stand selling various types of women's underwear. Hanging rather prominently was a panty, but not just any regular panty. This article of underwear had a ( Read more... )

So for a couple days last week, I definitely felt a little like a monkey. Why? Well, mainly because I was climbing pretty much everything in sight ( Read more... )

So, 4th of July in Toulouse. Unfortunately, that date doesn't hold the same significance for the French as it does for us. Still, we went to central Toulouse to celebrate with a representative from the American consulate. Hung out with a bunch of Americans in Toulouse, drank champagne, and ate hors d'vours (which, by the way, were delicious). Some ( Read more... )

Last week, our summer program went to Futuroscope in Poitiers. Futuroscope is an amusement park (I suppose you could call it that), with a general theme of technology. It was more a collection of IMAX screens than an amusement park, really. Anyway, it was about 6PM and the group I was in was about halfway through the park. They decided it was time ( Read more... )