1. Every night you hear the song "Fur Elise" play. Unfortunately it is not the ice cream truck, to the disappointment of foreigners who end up running after the ... garbage truck. They play the song to let people know they are coming so that they all come out to throw their trash into the trucks ( Read more... )

Saturday October 13 Today we wanted to go to the Astronomical Museum, but it is only open until 5PM and we left late. Then we decided to walk to the Cake and Pastry Museum, but found out that its a tour/baking class so you have to reserve like a week in advance. So then we just went back Yuan Shan 圓山 and back to the Taipei Fine Arts Museum Garden. ( Read more... )

Wednesday October 10 Today is Double Tenth Day 雙十節 It's the National Celebration Day 國慶日 for the Republic of China. This is the day of the Wuchang Uprising aka the end of the Qing Dynasty. Taiwanese flags are put up all along the bridges and major streets in the city. I decided to take Brent to Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall 國父紀念館. I was also hoping ( Read more... )

Tuesday October 2 Today I went back to Banqiao 板橋 to pick up my ARC. I wasn't feeling all that well, but I was tired of having had to wait another 2 weeks. And to make matters worse I get there and they tell me they don't have it yet. I start politely saying that I've already been here 3 times and waited 4 weeks how can it not be ready yet. She ( Read more... )

Friday September 28 Yesterday I got to have lunch with a Filipino girl, Abby, that I met. Today we didn't have class because it was like Teacher's Day. So a bunch of the students planned on going to the beach, so Abby invited me to go. A bunch of people went like about 20-30. A bunch of people I don't know. We met at 9:30AM. I thought we would get ( Read more... )

Monday September 24 Tomorrow is Autumn Moon so I don't have school. However, today I do so I can't have a long weekend holiday. The regular campus is closed and some teachers in the language center decided not to have class either. Brent doesn't have work, but he has to make it up next Saturday so it still sucks. Today we decided to walk all the ( Read more... )

Sunday September 23 I stayed awhile after mass today, they wanted me to read scripture next week because they don't have enough people, so I agreed to do it, although, I think I would have to wear these robes.

Anyway after church, we took the brown Muzha Line to the Taipei Zoo Today might have not been the best day to go to the zoo. It was a ( Read more... )

Saturday September 22 Today I met up with Brent at Taipei Main. He had planned on going to the zoo, but unfortunately it was raining. Rain kind of sucks if you want to go out, because I don't like walking in the pouring rain. Instead we went back to Neihu and from the MRT walked through a park to the Taipei Fine Arts Museum. Today we are lucky ( Read more... )

Monday September 17 Today went back to Banqiao to apply for information change for my Alien Resident Certificate. I was hoping that it would only take a few days to change but guess what I have to wait another stupid 2 weeks to get a new one, which means I still can't open my bank account because I need the card to do that ( Read more... )

Friday September 14 Today I met up with the other new students so that we could travel back to the Immigration Agency to pick up the ARC. We all took Bus 99 that goes straight to Banciao. Then we had to walk for 10 minutes to the place. Unfortunately, because the school wrote my address wrong and the address is on the ARC card, it was incorrect and ( Read more... )