Waist shorts and Shilin night market

I was putting on the shorts I bought a couple of days ago to wear to work. At first the shorts were really tight around my waist and they were really long on me. I pulled them up to my stomach and it felt weird since it covered my belly button. I asked Drew if this was the right way of wearing them and he said it is. He said Taiwan fashion is a little strange and you will see how people wear clothes differently lol The picture above is an example of what I bought. (The girl is not me!! lol) It doesn't look too weird but wearing them is a little awkward. I got excited though because I felt more "Taiwanese" lol Actually now that I think about it, I think those shorts are trendy in Europe etc.

When I go to work I walk 5-10 mins to the subway station (MRT), then take the MRT for 5-10 mins and then walk another 5-10 mins to work. I was about to get off the subway and this man was standing next to me. The announcer on the subway said we were getting off at the Shilin exit which is my stop and the biggest night market is also called Shilin. When I was about to get off, this man who is in his mid 40s started talking to me in Chinese if this stop was the night market. In Chinese I replied back I don't know. Then he started talking to me. He asked me where I was from since obviously I have an accent and so I told him I was American and I was getting off the subway. I was going to leave but he asked me where I worked. I told him I'm a teacher, teaching English. He's from Korea and he tried speaking broken English to me. I told him to stop speaking English and just continue with Chinese lol His Chinese was good for being Korean. I can understand him better with Chinese than English. He told me he was living with his little sister's house and that he was trying to find work. He wanted to know how much I got paid but I didn't answer. By this point I was out of the subway station but he kept asking me questions. He said he wanted to live in America and fell in love with a girl from there that lived in California but it didn't work out lol I was running late and I was trying to get away from this man and I finally kept walking saying I got to go! He said good bye and good luck to me which was nice.

Overall he was friendly but he was nosy which scared me a little bit. I don't know why he was trying to find work if he lives in Korea. I asked Drew about it later and he said sometimes people are friendly. It doesn't mean anything bad unless he keeps following you or something. But I agree, Taiwanese people are friendly. I think living in Taipei is definitely "English friendly" because most of the signs are in English and people are willing to help out foreigners. Also in Taipei there is a low crime rate and there is a 7 Eleven around every corner. I feel safe going on the subway at night and walking home by myself although I don't plan to do that often. I mean, sometimes people have good intentions and just want to have conversations but this random stranger I don't even know was talking about finding a job and wanting to marry a girl from the U.S.! With all the stuff we talked about, our conversation was only 5-10 mins long!!I think the funniest thing was when he was describing how much he loved this girl and he said it in Chinese but he made a kissy face to show me how much he loved her lol If saying it wasn't enough and making the smoochy noise and kissy face would prove his endless love for this woman haha

-Chihchat