After my amazing 12 hr sleep from the night before, I felt alright to do some errands today. I went to Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial Hall to buy some postcards when I noticed how extremely busy it was traveling from the MRT to the place. I got there and I saw huge floats and loads of people. I knew that something was happening today since I saw it on my paycheck calendar about 10/10 or double tenth but I didn't know exactly what lol I realized it was Taiwan's 100th birthday as I saw the posters and I was really happy that I went to the memorial today. I saw a little bit of the parade and it was funny because it was windy and there were people trying to hold up enormous floats with strings. It was hard for the people to balance them up straight (first picture above).
Then when I was walking in the square, there was this couple who wanted me to take a picture of them. The woman lives in Australia and is Taiwanese and she was lecturing me about why I should be studying Chinese although the Taiwanese man was very friendly and didn't care. I know she means well but I've been getting that a lot recently. I either get people who tell me that my Chinese is good or that I need to study lol She could speak little English. I then left and was walking to get my postcards when I saw a huge group of officers (marines?) with their motorcycles. Lots of people were taking pictures of them, especially girls. I was going to see who I should take a picture with when I saw the same couple I just met and I asked them if they could take the picture of me with an officer. The lady started laughing and said I should pick a cute one. I didn't want to take a long time but I did find this one guy who was smiling and he looked really nice and friendly (second picture above). The lady wanted me to sit on the motorcycle but the guy said I couldn't. She was upset I couldn't sit on it and I said it's fine! I don't need to lol
When I was leaving, I saw a group of guys all dressed up in USA gear. I asked them why there were dressed up like that and I guess they are part of a club and they are representing their country. It might have been for the parade since there were other countries like Mexico, Canada, Thailand etc. So I took a picture with them (third picture above). My stomach started to feel much better so tonight I wanted to get popcorn and it was funny because the 7-Eleven cashier didn't know how to pop it and she was going to open the unpopped bag. Luckily the coworker told her not to but I'm glad she didn't open it. It took her forever to figure out what to do lol
Anyway it was a pretty exciting day considering I was just expecting to buy some postcards and it really made up from last night's exhaustion :)
-Chihchat
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