Chill

We took it easy around here today, had lunch in the cafeteria for the first time. It was good. You pay by the weight, which I was warned about, but it was cheap still. Cheaper than some of the other places I've been taken to eat and still good. I'm a little worried about when it gets busier... I need to listen closely because I won't want to hold up the line.

After that we found an atm that would let us get out money with our US debit cards... low and behind 7 Eleven had it. It was one off campus though, the one on campus doesn't have an atm >_<. Its good to know, I'll feel better about money after I buy books and after I start working in the English Corner.

I spent the rest of the afternoon, relaxing. I watched Mars (Zhan Shen/戰神) subtitled (both  traditional Chinese and English) for the the most part. It amuses my roommates that I'm watching it. They often comment over my shoulder about how handsome Vic Zhou is XD.

Then at 5:30 my roommate (who took us out yesterday) returned and we left by bus for Gongguan. We went to a music and video place since I've been wanting to get some music while I'm here. I was super excited. The store had Japanese and Korean music as well and almost all of it was decently priced. I could have easily dropped a ridiculous amount of money there. They had L'ar~en~ciel's newest album with a ton of extras for like $15 (US). I exercised a bit of will power and left with only two CDs by Taiwanese artists that I enjoy. After that we walked past Taipei University (looked pretty big and pretty nice) and through the night market in that area. I had a potato thing that was sort of like a hash brown with cheese and bacon (apparently you can only get it in that particular night market).

 

    

Then it was time to go home. I've now met all my roommates (the other two arrived today, one this afternoon and one this evening), both are wonderful. Tomorrow is orientation at 10:30 am (super stoked for that).