I figured since i did this last year in Taiwan I should do it this year too :P

So, I was thinking to myself the other day about how last year I was blogging almost on a daily basis, well basically blogging about each day, and how fun it would be to look back and see what happened. Well, I figured I give it another go this year, since I was very curious about what I blogged last year. Though I haven't taken a look at my blogs from last year, rest assured I will be on that right after this blog :).

So anyways, after a quite stressful fall quarter of college, I was definitely ready to wind down and just relax for once. Last Saturday, I went to visit Chinese School and messed around in my friends class, then we went Christmas Shopping, where I got a case for my psp go, a mighty mouse(yay!!), a business book by magic johnson, gta 4 and a anchor blue sweater. I chilled with friends on Sunday, went to the gym and played ball, watched the Blind Side (awesome movie) in the afternoon, and chill at my place afterwards. On Monday I went with my friend to gym to play ball again, we smashed lol.

So that was my America portion of the break. I finally finished packing the day I had to leave, I bought a subway sandwich(will come to haunt me later). We went to the airport after eating Pizza Chicago, and got there around 2:30. The airport security was PACKED. We waited in line for at least half an hour before we got through security. We entered the lounge since we were sitting in premium laurel class, and sneaked away with 6 cans of sodas and 7 bags of chips/cookies hehe. So we finally entered our plane, which was new 777-300ER or something like that, and I have to say the seats were NICE. like I could almost recline fully back and i could literally almost roll around in that seat. So I really enjoyed that seat, however, the lingering smell of airplane food made me queasy, so when I took a bite out of subway, I nearly yacked . So I slept through most of the flight and we finally touched down. The moment I stepped off the plane I could feel Taiwan, the smell, the feeling, everything. So my uncle came and picked us up and we got to my grandma's house around 10:40. My grandma wasn't home, so the house was pretty empty :P. O yeah, did I mention it was raining? Cause it still is now. So that night i got a typical 3-4 hrs of sleep, due to jetlag. So on Thursday, my grandma came but my mom had to run some errands so we went out of the house, she had some issues with her taiwan citizenship so we were going around to the bank and various offices. We also went to visit some of my mom's friends and relatives, which was nice. It was also really nice to ride on Taiwan's TRTS, which is one thing I almost always look forward too. O yeah, the muzha line's name got switched to wenhu line since the line got extended.

Let's see on Friday, my mom had, yet, to finish some more errands, we went to Xing Guan San Yre, or around Taipei Main Station to finish up my moms citizenship thing. I bought a birthday present for my friend whose birthday is coming up really soon at the Taipei Station underground mall. We then went to a bookstore late in the afternoon, it sells a lot of religious books, focusing on buddhism, and words from prophets, stuff like that. We then met up with one of my mom's old friends and had dinner with here at a really nice restaurant, which apparently was the same restaurant that my mom and dad had there wedding dinner :P. Anyways I stuffed myself like no other, it literally hurt to breathe. So they talked for quite awhile, they met up around 6 and we didnt leave until around 10. So we headed back and I knocked out.

On Saturday, it was finally my turn to go around and shop. We didnt leave until around 2. So we went to Zhongxiao Fuxing, where they had a Sogo there. I went there and looked around. We then went to Zhongxiao Fuxing underground mall which to me was semi lackluster but thats ok. My mom wanted to pick up a package she ordered around there which was the real reason why we went out. So we went and found out the delivery man forgot to deliver it the other night so we had to lounge around until 5:30 when the person was suppose to deliver it. So we had an hour and a half to squander. I went to a Adidas store and got this 780 NT belt since my belt is epic failing right now. We found our way to another department store which wasnt as glamorous as Pacific Sogo since it was older. We ended up getting Starbucks cause I was dead tired probably still feeling a little jetlagged. So we picked up our package and was on our way.

Today, we are suppose to meet up with my mom's friend near taipei 101, gonna try and see if we can go around 101 to shop. Some misc. things, I've been really hooked onto taiwan's movie channels which is like channels 60-70. I've seen a curry house lol, a FERRARI CALIFORNIA wtf, a poster with a man doing the finger wag LOL(inside joke), also i never thought three buses could fit in two lanes cause that almost happened...and i was in the bus trying to cram between the two. But yeah I'm loving it so far, soaking up the Taiwan culture is something I always look forward to each and every year. I'm still kinda bummed though cause the only relatives I've seen on my mom's side, we haven't gotten a chance to sit down and talk, cept my grandma and one of my uncles, but I know that will change in due time. Meanwhile, I'm waiting for my bro and dad to come over this wednesday, since I really do think they are holding me back from having fun over here in taiwan, because everything we do is oh lets wait for your bro and dad to come to do, which really is squandering my time here but im whatever about it, i still got a bit a time here in taiwan so im not gonna complain about it, I'll just live up the taiwan experience which is truly a unique opportunity for me. More to blog on the way!!