Lazy Summer Days

09/7-8/18

    Sorry I didn’t update recently. Mostly because what I have been up to has been fairly boring. I had to back to NTU to complete the rest of my registration. Josh is in the same program, so I took him with me. He was able to get everything done relatively quickly, while I am still working on mine. Then we went out to my old stomping ground of Gongguan. We met my friend from the hotel Yuhua, there and headed out to lunch. It took a while for her to find us, and for us to eat but we made it eventually. Then we stopped off at a shaved ice place while it rained down buckets.
    The afternoons are so hot here it’s really hard to do much. I find myself tending towards staying side and waiting for the hottest part of the day to pass. That evening I made dinner for the house and we sat around assigning chores and what not so one person doesn’t have to do the cleaning. So we’ll see how well everyone follows their assignments. I suspect the first month it will be ok.
    The following day was a day of bureaucracy. I had to go to the Immigration center to register with the Taiwanese government. I will be getting my ARC or Alien Resident Certificate, which will act similarly to a Taiwan ID card. It will allow for me to move freely in and out of the country as well as receive my scholarship money. It’ll be good for one year, and then will need to either be renewed or I’ll leave Taiwan. But that whole application process took all morning to do. Mostly due to waiting in line, then I had to go print a document that I had thought wasn’t necessary but apparently it was… Gotta love the red tape of governments. But in the end it is all good, and in two weeks I will be picking up my card.
    Again, the afternoon was spent hiding from the mid-day rain and heat. That evening everyone in the house met up to eat dinner, then go see a movie. It was decided that we would go see “The Nun”, which is a horror flick. Honestly it was a terrible movie, and not that scary save for the jump scares. I had more fun watching my four companions absolutely lose their minds. They were extremely jumpy about the whole thing. So I kinda laughed my way through the movie. Nothing about it was scary. So That’s been me for the rest of the week. I suspect that not much will happen until school starts up, otherwise just going out and looking around the city. If something fun happens I will update, but otherwise it’s going to be a boring few weeks in terms of travel.