Taiwan Tech Trek 2006
So included in my NT$50,000 stipend is an orientation trip around Taiwan, filled with propaganda hoping that we'll come back to stay.
The House of TERROR.
The first night we had dinner at the Grand Hotel, filled with lovely "entertainment". It was just about the worst performance ever, and everyone was about to die. There was a puppet show done by this CRAZY OLD MAN who just kept on waving his puppets around yelling "WHOAHHHHHH--- WHOOAHHHHH" and acting like what he did was so amazing. This was then followed by a very loud Chinese Opera performance whcih left me wanting to die.
Taiwanese Cooking Class. We were staying at this Cooking College, so the teachers gave us a lesson. This guy's making Hot & Sour Soup.
Then we hit the kitchens and tried it ourselves. On the left, what Hot & Sour Soup looks like. On the right, what my Hot & Sour Soup looks like. I was pouring vinegar in the soup randomly, and the chef guy runs up to me going "STOP!!!!" and then he's like "let's see if I can resue this"... which he couldn't. Oh well.
The dough man is sad about my failures as a Master Chef.
The Master Chef herself!
Asian Chuck E. Cheese!
Drum DDR.
Puppy that lives in the dining hall.
Inside a pipe at the China Shipbuilding Corporation
At the beach!
Random pig in the street.
Our dorm.
The earthquake musuem, built along the actual fault
Singing karaoke on the bus! That's right... on the bus.
Mission Control at Taiwan's NASA
Art Musuem of old art, probably stolen from China.
Stick bug!
The karaoke place we went to had free food, including french fries that look like happy faces!
As for now, I'm just sitting around, exploring, attempting to not speak and reveal how incompetent I am...