Location | Taipei
Things on my mind:
>Apparently a typhoon is coming
>Ian is not online
>Poisonous bugs that cause your whole body have have an allergic reaction
>My roommate is moving out
>My mom is going back to America
>Thai food is spicy
>I still need a dictionary
>Chinese characters are too complicated
>I still live on a mountain…
>Aloha buses are great
Yeah, so that’s all currently on my mind. So let’s go topic by topic:
Special meals:
Saturday night and Sunday afternoon my aunt took us out for some really fancy meals. Saturday dinner was at a “western style” restuarant. We had fried rice balls, then salad in vinagrette, then spanish rice and spinach noodles, then lamb chops, and finally a gelatin dessert. I thought it was ok, but I felt sick afterwards… probably because I’d been eating lots of Taiwanese foods and not enough western food.
Sunday afternoon was m uncle’s birthday lunch. We went to a super fancy restaurant on the 11th floor of the Idee department store. Private room of course. For that meal there was shark fin soup, abalone, lamp chops, scallop in egg, cold meat platter, chicken soup, grilled fish… and for dessert was this AWESOME warm pudding… I’m not sure how it was made, but it was WONDERFUL… and fruit and then shrimp dumplings. Overall, it was quite enjoyable.
Aloha Bus Service:
This week I tried out Aloha Bus Service from Taipei to Taichung. Let me just say, it was VERY enjoyable. There is an attendant and you get water, a snack, and a wet napkin. You also get a blanket. Then there is your own personal tv screen. You get to watch several movies or play video games! Then the chair is a MASSAGE SEAT!!! Plus it reclines a lot. Let me just say that it was the most enjoyable ride I’ve had in a long time. 😀
Poisonous bugs:
Apparently there is a kind of poisonous bug here and if you just touch it it squirts (or something) a poison onto you that causes you to itch and therefore causing you to have red bumps all over the parts of your body that itches. One of these bugs crawled out from the newspaper my aunt was reading and she just flicked it away and she got sprayed by the bug… SCARY!! Apparently if you come into contact with one (like you see one) the only way to rid of it “safely” is to blow it away… I’m not sure how effective that is, but I’m scared to death of this kind of bug. Apparently it sprayed some girl’s face and her whole face was completely red and puffy… SCARY!!
Typhoon:
Apparently a typhoon is coming. I’m both excited and scared. Excited because this will be my first typhoon. Scared because I live on a mountain. Crap.
Ok everyone, send me emails and give me things to do.
My address is: 台中市西區樂群街70號3樓 (sorry if you can’t see the Chinese characters). This is my grandmother’s address… just write my name on it and she’ll get the message that it’s for me. 林安娜 <– My Chinese name.
Errr yes, that is all. WAKE UP IAN.
[This entry was taken from my old blog, Away from Home. Formatting may have changed when moved to Explore!]