“No big trips until I get paid,” that has felt like my mantra the last two weeks. I love my roommates; they really know how to have fun and still keep it within the budget. Yesterday Sally and I shared our Saturday in camaraderie being the only two most of the day while Daisy and Yu Jing were out. We studied and ate and dinked on the internet.
Today we took a trip to Bitan to the park. We were able to take paddle boats out on the lake which was a lot of fun. My roommates are crazy drivers! (lol) They kept running into things and they past us and got poor Jordan all wet. The lake was very busy with performances this weekend and lots of boats on the water. Super cheap and fun. Unfortunately, for some reason I can't find any of my daytime pictures.
We ate in the night market, a pancake sort of food. Mine had strawberries, blueberries and bananas in it (so good!) and also Takoyaki that was delicious as well (its octopus in a fried breading). After that we took pictures and just ran around for little bit. We went up on a suspension bridge but it wiggled too much for me to get good pictures from it.
Kaitlin and Jordan left first, but my roommates and I (and our friend Jenny from Hong Kong) didn’t stay much longer, since most of us have class tomorrow. I really forced myself to use more Chinese today, I think I need to keep this up. Also a local temple was having some sort of event here in Jingmei and were walking through the streets all dressed up. Yu Jing wasn't sure how to describe it in English, but she says these sorts of things are much bigger outside of Taipei particularly in the southern part (reminds me of something we saw in Nichol's Eastern Philsophy class at SVSU).
On another note, I found a new CD I want to buy. K-pop, WHY ARE YOU SO POPULAR HERE?!(Kpop = Korean pop music). I stopped listening to a group called DBSK after the split, (I wondered if two guys could really carry a group) but Yunho and Changmin’s new album… it rocks. I can’t stop listening to it. I found out comes out this month. I’m being sucked back in T_T.
I want send you guys off with two of my favorite songs one in Korean and one in Chinese. The Kpop one is by DBSK (AKA in Japan TVXQ) and its from their new album (yup its a duo). The Chinese song is an older song off an album I bought by Wang Lee Hom (American born, Taiwanese singer). The album is mixture of modern and folk music... so awesome.
