New friends!

    I’ve got my morning routine down pat at this point. Wake up,  start breakfast toast, put way dishes while water is boiling, make coffee and read. Which is why I came to Taiwan a bit earlier than was totally necessary. Today I headed out to NTU in order to get the registration process going for classes. I have a list of things to do for my scholarship and they all start with getting a proof of enrollment. I was really pleased I was able to do all of this in Chinese. I am about halfway registered but my paper will be ready by Thursday. Which potentially means I can get over to the NIA for registration before the end of the week. I am trying to have everything done before my placement test next week, so I won’t have to make multiple trips.
    It took a good portion of the morning to be able to get everything done (just lots of running around and peaking to different people). I was able to return home. I then popped over to the super market to grab some food to make dinners. I then spent the next couple hours chatting with Gin who was hanging out in the living room. Sh and Yoko are really fun, it just took a little bit to get to know one another. We mostly just talked about traveling and studying in other countries. It was lovely, i found out Gin is going to be doing her Master’s degree in Biology, it’ll be in Chinese which is why she is studying now. Yoko is trying to improve her job prospects by getting a little Chinese under her belt. It’s a bit amusing as we all know a little bit of each other’s languages. I can generally understand Yoko’s Japanese, though I can not speak. Gin and Yoko both speak Korean and Gin and I speak English. Together we are just an adventure of languages.
    So The final stop for the day was after dinner, Gin and Yoko wanted to go to the shopping district, Wufenpu. If you’ll remember from the last time I was in Taiwan, I went to Wufenpu a lot. Not that I spent money but it was a good way to spend an afternoon window shopping. So I took them along a five year path to the shopping district. We spent a good couple hours looking and wandering around. I really enjoyed my self and we were probably having too much fun taking pictures in a random alley way.

Front to Back: Gin, Yoko, Myself

    We finished out the adventure with a wander around our neighborhood’s night market. I am getting old so it was ten at night and I was about to fall asleep where I was sitting. But I would say it was a really good time. I am ecstatic that I have made some friends in the house. We have three new people arriving tomorrow, so we shall see how that goes.