Today is the first day of my break before I start teaching. I think I start teaching either this Thurs. or Fri. which means I have a couple of days off to explore Taiwan. Although I woke up late close to noon, my plan was to see Taipei 101 building, the tallest building in Taiwan and some other memorials places like Chiang Kai-Shek and Sun Yat-sen memorial hall. I first went to Taipei 101 building and I was proud of myself because I didn't get lost too badly although when I first took the subway, I went to the wrong direction. I got to the building and there are a lot of nice, expensive shopping places. You have to go to the 5th floor where you buy your ticket to see the observatory which is the 89th floor. Although Taipei 101 has 101 floors, you can't go all the way to the top. It cost $400NT which was sorta a lot although that's about $14USD. I was following tour guides since I was by myself and I didn't want to get lost lol The elevator of course was cramped and I accidentally touched a random guy's butt haha I said sorry and his friends were making fun of him haha
I then went to the Sun Yat-sen memorial and that was my last stop because I didn't have time to go to the Chiang Kai-Shek memorial hall. I got out of the subway and I couldn't find the building. I was going to ask someone and this lady with a smile comes up and starts talking to me. There are people who want you to fill out surveys but you should just ignore them, that's what Cala and Drew told me. Well she helped me find the building but then she started to ask me questions. I felt like I had to talk to her because she helped me lol She asked me if I wanted to lose weight and what I thought about losing weight. So I told her my opinion and she wanted all my information to join this mailing list for a program to lose weight. I lied and said I don't have a cell phone or email lol Then she said something about my face and I didn't get it but now I do. I got sunburned really bad so I think she was asking me if my face hurt lol
I got to the memorial and inside there is a huge monument of Sun Yat-sen made out of bronze I think. Sun Yat-sen is a historical leader around the 1920s who developed the three principles of democracy. There were two guards and it's cool because every hour they do the changing of the guards and they do this little ceremony thing. The funny thing was after the guards were changed, one of the workers at the museum helped wipe the guard's face and shook his clothes and sorta gave him a massage lol I guess since they can't move, the museum worker helps them haha And as I was leaving, they had people meditating which I thought was neat.
As I mentioned before about the recycling, throwing trash is also confusing. It comes at night which stinks (haha pun) because no one is home to throw it away since we all mostly work. The trash has been building up at my place and since I'm on a break, I needed to throw out the trash tonight. The food and regular trash can be thrown out everyday but the cardboard and the other recyclables that have touched food are only thrown out on certain days. Well we had 3 big containers of trash and I can't carry that much so I brought 2 of them down. The food trash was nasty since it was leaking! I met a lady and she was nice and was watching my buckets of trash while I had to go back to my place to get the third bucket. When the garbage trucks came, the garbage man was telling me to condense my trash but I didn't understand and the lady who watched my trash yelled at him, saying I was an American and helped me. The garbage man was really mad at me lol He kept repeating do you understand? I understood that part but I didn't understand what he said before. I don't know why throwing trash is so confusing!
-Chihchat
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