Noisy Taiwan and unpopped popcorn once again

This morning at 8:30am I woke up from the lovely noise of jack hammering. They are tearing down a building or room of some sort near our apartment and you can hear everything. When I was skyping with my friend, I at first had no idea what the noise was. Then Kenny was having a fit and meowing so it was just a loud morning.

Cala lost her keys a couple of days ago so we went to find a key store. Her old roommate knew of a place so while we were walking there, there was a food stand selling two kinds of donuts and sesame balls. I ordered a sesame ball and it was so good I had another one lol The lady asked me where I was from and I just told her I was American but I asked her what I thought I was. She thought I was Korean. It's because of my shirt though since it was a really Korean-like haha Cala and I made a joke about it but I guess I just have my days. Some days I look Japanese, Korean, Cantonese-Hong Kong, Taiwanese, Chinese, American, or Canadian.

Cala and I found a place near the market by our apartment to copy keys. It was literally like, let's find a sign with a key on it. There were so many signs with the key symbol and a telephone number posted on it but we couldn't find the store. We finally found a place and it only took the guy 10 mins to copy them and it cost a little over $3. Plus the new set of keys are really shiny! haha

Drew and I had Korean food for lunch. We both ordered the bibimbap (picture above). It was extremely delicious and super fresh. Then we went to Coldstone to get ice cream since Drew had stickers remaining from 7-Eleven and we needed to finish it up before they expired. During my night class, I had a student give me candy. Then for my private tutoring, my student also gave me candy lol I was surprised since my Monday night awful class had a party day and didn't give me anything :( lol

Then tonight after Drew and I ran, I went to my favorite 7-Eleven store near my apartment to buy popcorn. Unfortunately they ran out of the kind I like and I even went to another convenience store (Hi-Life) but they didn't have any either. I finally had to go to this 7-Eleven that is closer to my place but I don't like them since they are unfriendly and they always mess up on something. So Drew was at another food stand so I went to the 7-Eleven to get my popcorn. It took awhile for it to pop but anyway I got my popcorn and left and was walking to meet Drew when I realized that the bag was 1/3 popped. I complained to Drew about it and we went back to 7-Eleven. I explained to the 2 guys working although my Chinese isn't the greatest so I didn't really know how to say that the popcorn bag wasn't fully popped but they understood lol They opened another popcorn bag since I told them since they were going to repop the bag in the microwave. They were looking at me like they were annoyed though. Taiwanese people seriously must not eat that much popcorn because I always have trouble when I buy it. No one seems to know how to pop it and it's really a mystery to them lol But yeah, today was definitely a food day!

-Chihchat