I am still alive

This is what fall semester did to me...

celebrating summer...with explosives

Let's be more politically active

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go veg

This is why you should consider vegetarianism.

New face of North Korea?

Kim Jong Nam: Future dictator of North Korea?

(I'm sorry, but this just made me chuckle...he doesn't quite strike me as the communist dictator successor-type...)

my bowels hate me

New things I've eaten (so far...):

chicken feet
stinky tofu
pig intestine
chicken butt
pork blood
duck tongue
blood rice
sashimi
snails
fish balls
cuttlefish snout
(and probably lots of other things that I didn't know was in my food...)

Karaoke

Chinese Abba :)



We're not so good...



Megan and Megan



S.O.S.

A sad realization

Almost everyday, there is music in the streets that sounds like the music from an ice cream truck. Since it's so hot here, the thought of ice cream is always tempting. The other day, I finally saw one of the trucks that blasted the ice cream music. To my chagrin, it was a garbage truck! Why do garbage trucks need to play music? Garbage trucks don't need to attract small children and lead them away like the pied piper for business. That music will forever more remind me of garbage...what a sad thought.

Death by scooter

I think I might die in a scooter accident here. Everyone drives one, everyone speeds on them, and no one follows the traffic laws while driving them. It's kind of funny because they all wear thier own masks when they drive (for the pollution or for shade from the sun or something). I think I should invest in a personalized mask before I leave...I think I'll get one with skulls and cross bones on it :)

Ni hao!

Nin hao! I am in Taiwan and have not been quarantined as of yet :) The traveling was terrible. Try sleeping in a plane for 14 hours with crying babies, sketchy asian cuisine, and blasting announcements in three different languages. "*Ding, dong* yadie an genelmen, due to tubulence, fassen yo seatbout." On top of that, try surviving in subzero temperatures with used blankets and pillows...gross. (I swear my pillow had some glistening saliva on it.)

I am trying desperately to stay awake to get used to the whole time change thing. Maybe I'll go out in the muggy city of Tainan to do some market hopping. I'll post more stories as things come up. Stay posted!

Zai jian