5/9 - First Full Day

Hello everyone, or should I say nihao. :)

It is now 12:10 AM for me here on Sunday. I started this post at 9:10PM on Saturday, but my laptop died. Now I'm finishing the post, so...

It was our first day to really go out and about. We had a full day planned. We started with half of our group getting an "extreme makeover." We each got dressed up in Asian attire and had our pictures taken by a professional photographer. It was a lot of fun, but with a group of 20 people it took us 4+ hours to get it all finished. I don't have any pictures of me in my costume on my camera, but here's Melody.

Next we went to Chiang Kai Shek memorial. Impressive building and park nearby! We went on a tour for some charitable organization after. It was rather funny. We were literally surrounded by photographers and staff when we went on a tour. The professors said it was because they are trying to promote tourism and apparently... we qualified. I've never had so many cameras around me at one time :)



Well, my battery is still dying since the outlets all shut off when we leave the room. So here's the abbreviated ending. We went to a museum and then by a night market... SOOO MANY PEOPLE!



P.S. We attempted to go out to a local club tonight. Our professor wrote the address in Chinese for the taxi driver. Our taxi got us there; I confirmed it with the bouncers. However, the 2nd group of students didn't make it to the club. We waited for a while and decided to head back to the hotel. Now we're sitting outside the hotel, having some beers with some ASU students that are now studying for their MBA here in Taiwan. What a day... more to come. Sorry I haven't had a chance to put more videos up. Hopefully I'll be able to soon.