Taiwan Day 16 and 17

Day 16:

My first Chinese class originally had 4 kids, now there are 2, because 2 of the kids switched into a different level. This is very good cause now I get to speak even more in class, ahahha >:D In my 单班棵 today my teacher asked me who my favorite artist was, and I said Wang Xizhi cause he is the most famous calligrapher of all time. And she just goes, "...why are your tastes so old-fashioned?! You look so young but your favorite artist is Wang Xizhi?!" I'm surprised she was so surprised because I usually bring this up at all the parties I go to and people generally agree with me. Wait what. 

I should probably get out more....

Had lunch at a fried rice place which was very good, but I've been forgetting to take pictures lately, I guess because now I feel like a student and not a tourist. 

Got bubble tea with Audra and Matt, and had to sneak it into the library cause no food is allowed in there, so we were just sketchily standing between these bookshelves trying to silently slurp our bubble teas cause there are cameras everywhere.... The things we do for bubble tea.

After studying a bit, I went to Far EasTone to replace the minutes on my phone since apparently I used all 350元 worth in less than two weeks...But I managed to do the whole thing in Chinese all by myself, MWAHAHA. +1 survival skills for me. So now I guess it's only around -500. That time I accidentally walked away from my apartment and took the MRT back probably counted for a lot of negative points :( 

Went to a Vietnamese place which was soooo good but I may be biased. Then Dylan and Logan thought it would be a good idea to eat a handful of the peppers that were on the table.

I wish this photo accurately conveyed how Logan looked like he was going to cry

Fell asleep right after dinner cause I ate too much, which would have been a good end to the day, but then I woke up and had 4+ hours of homework waiting for me TT___TT. Good thing I went to the library earlier at least :P

Day 17:

It's finally Friday!! I feel like I've been in school forever. Also, in my first class today, I realized that I, for the first time ever, COMPLETELY IGNORED a homework assignment. I looked at the homework for my two group classes and saw that each one said 第一棵演讲 (1st lesson's speech) and for some reason in my mind, I thought it was referring to the same essay, because I guess I literally could not fathom the idea of having two essay/speeches due on the same day. So I guess I just completely didn't hand in an essay for my first class. Oops. :( 

During lunch, ICLP hosted a speech about this Chinese learning software that can analyze your speech patterns and break down exactly where your pronunciation, emphasis, tones, etc. are wrong and how to fix them. It was really cool, and they gave us free downloads because we're ICLP students; I think this is the website (http://www.myet.com/MyETWeb/SubPage.aspx?fn=MyCT-Intro.htm) They told us that they based this off of internet games, which they said is perfect for 宅女, aka people who stay home and don't go out aka me (Melissa just taught me this word the other day, because she said it described me/us so well HAHA). 

Later in the day, ran into my 单班棵 teacher at Gongguan station! It's surprising how much you run into people despite Taipei being so large. She is so nice and cute, ahhhh. Met at the huge mall in 台北车站 called Q-Square since we wanted to go see Monsters University! But since it was opening day, the 6PM movie sold out :( so we had fiveeeeee hours to kill before the next showing. So obviously we decided to eat food. All the food court food was surprisingly good, especially Chirei's!!

又便宜又好吃！！

Chirei and Eric left to go do something so Matt, Daniel, Char and I just walked through the underground mall and ended up walking like two MRT stops away where we resurfaced and found a shaved ice place. 

Shaved ice with strawberry, red bean, grass jelly, and passion fruit, mmm

Very happy people

Played Egyptian Ratscrew for the last hour, during which Matt wiped the floor with all of us, despite being all like "blahhh I'm so bad at this game I never win blahblahblah" -__- So he basically just hustled us. 

And finally it was time for the movie! I love seeing English movie posters in Chinese for some reason. Look at how the first character has the monster eye inside of it instead of having it inside the "M" like in English. 

I want to go to this university :(

It's also interesting to see how the subtitles translate the English (the parts I could understand, at least). Also the movie was so good and funny! I definitely recommend it, it was like reliving childhood all over again. Also can we talk about how the original movie came out TWELVE YEARS AGO?! How am I even this old. I can see my mom rolling her eyes like she does every time I complain about how "old" I am. But actually, at this rate, the sequel for the Incredibles won't come out until I'm 22...Booooo. Whatever, I will still be watching animated films then. NO SHAME.

I would also like to point out how it's 3AM on Friday night and Connor/others are out clubbing and I just watched an animated kids' film and then blogged about it. I know I lead a pretty exciting life, don't be too jealous guys.