Christine - still being the nicest person ever - brought me breakfast! It was something like a wrap with bean sprouts, apples, cranberries, wasabi, and all kinds of other things that I didn't notice because I scarfed it down in about 15 seconds.
Ming Chuan has a ton of campuses in and around Taipei. We're in the Jihe campus, which is actually just a building that's in the best possible location if you like night markets, but today we went to the Taoyuan campus, which is much bigger and college-like.
We got to see an all-girls dorm (where one of the girls I went with is staying right now! So lucky)
Be prepared to put those hands over those hearts and get patriotic y'all because we're visiting the ***American Classroom***
Stop pinching yourself: that really is a HUGE flag behind a podium with the seal of the President on it in a room filled with colonial-style furniture and American historical figures hanging from the ceiling. Felt so at home.
We also visited the Japanese classroom where we promptly passed out.
These classrooms are used for language and cultural instruction in order to make the experience as immersive as possible - cool, right? They have kimono lessons, tea lessons, and all kinds of other Japanese-y things to do in the J-Classroom and I don't know like burger lessons in the American one.
This wouldn't be Taiwan if they didn't give us the most ridiculous meal ever. I actually have problems with eating too much because I forget that, after the initial 4 or 5 dishes set out on the table they bring about 10 more. So I end up gorging myself on the first few and am unable to resist the other dishes too! So full, all the time.
The first course.
The first course.Back at the hotel it was packing time!!!! The exclamation points are there because packing is actually really boring. I was being facetious. It took forever and I'm sure I forgot things that fell behind the couch.
But! We had dinner at Din Tai Fung again! The day is saved! On the way we saw the taking down of the flag. It took about 20 minutes. To take the flag down. Military efficiency!
Now usually I would have food pics here, but you guys. We ate so much, so fast, there was no time to snap any photos. To give you some idea of how much our table of five (Go Team Godpig!) ate, we spent nearly twice as much as a table of eight and another table of five combined. Ooops. Apologies to whoever was paying for that! It was insanely delicious, though.
After dinner we met up with our People-to-People...people from the first day for some coffee, or in my case hot chocolate.
It was really nice to see them again. Hundreds of pictures were taken and emails were exchanged, it was all very fun and sad at the same time, knowing we probably won't ever meet up in the same group again.
After they left, Christian, Jane and I sang Karaoke with Christine, her sister Fancy and Annie. I can't believe the last night we were in Taiwan was the first we 唱了some KTV, it was so much fun! You get your own private room so you don't have to watch drunk old men gettin' their Queen on, you can just chill with your friends!
Taxi home, stay up till 4 being depressed, go to bed.
But! We had dinner at Din Tai Fung again! The day is saved! On the way we saw the taking down of the flag. It took about 20 minutes. To take the flag down. Military efficiency!
Now usually I would have food pics here, but you guys. We ate so much, so fast, there was no time to snap any photos. To give you some idea of how much our table of five (Go Team Godpig!) ate, we spent nearly twice as much as a table of eight and another table of five combined. Ooops. Apologies to whoever was paying for that! It was insanely delicious, though.
After dinner we met up with our People-to-People...people from the first day for some coffee, or in my case hot chocolate.
It was really nice to see them again. Hundreds of pictures were taken and emails were exchanged, it was all very fun and sad at the same time, knowing we probably won't ever meet up in the same group again.
After they left, Christian, Jane and I sang Karaoke with Christine, her sister Fancy and Annie. I can't believe the last night we were in Taiwan was the first we 唱了some KTV, it was so much fun! You get your own private room so you don't have to watch drunk old men gettin' their Queen on, you can just chill with your friends!
Taxi home, stay up till 4 being depressed, go to bed.
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