NSYSU- First week in Taiwan

Hahah wow it has already been 1 week plus at Taiwan!

Gonna recap the highlights of the trip because my memories is quite bad nowadays LOL

This is the first day at our apartment! With our very nice uncle su who helped us get this apartment, and sent 2 CARS to the airport to bring us to our new home! Super duper nice person.

He then brought us to have bahzhang and pig intestines soup which was supposed to be very tasty in Taiwan but was quite weird for me.

Adventure from Kaohsiung to Taipei

(Holiday bus(?), ke4 yun4, 600NT, 5 hours from Kaoshiung Bus Station to Taipei Bus Station)

Just the next day, we wanted to be happening and travel to Taipei for the week before school.

This is me in my comfortable massage chair on the bus. We got the 600NT Ho Hsin Bus (other than ubus and Aloha) which our Taiwan friend recommended. It's was really spacious and comfortable but my butt really hurt after 5 hours. @.@ 

Adventure to the Zoo

(Mrt to Taipei Zoo)

On the second day we went to the zoo!!! It was funny because the counter person thought we were below 18 years old and gave us half price for the tickets, much to our delight!

However, the zoo quality was quite disappointing as many of the enclosures were not well maintained and the animals were all lying around and being lethargic. Like this orangutan here:

Sent this picture to the case budz saying this is haochen HAHAHA.

The giraffes were super active though. We stood at the giraffe enclosure for the longest time looking at the 2 male giraffes trying to, erm, get it on with the female giraffe. Unfortunately, she kept running away and it never happened LOL

One of the more normal pictures with an alpaca, who is really good at posing for photos 

Adventure to Yangmingshan

(Local bus)

This trip was supposed to be a trekking trip.... until we decided that we should take the internal shuttle bus to every single destination HAHA. This place was extremely picturesque and there were at least 2 couples taking their wedding photos! Wedding photos seem to be stressful- the photographer directs every single movement and makes sure you get it right! He was like "Bride, lie at the groom's chest and look up at him lovingly! Yes! Yes! Smile more!" Awkward much >.>

Some other highlights include seeing cows, volcanoes and smelling sulphur =.=" There was also a public nude hotspring that some of the girls wanted to try @.@ we walked in and the rest were shocked to see some older women prancing around, nonchalantly naked (I went to hotspring before so I know LOL). So we immediately backed out and decided that a warm footbath would be sufficient to call it a day >.<

On the trip down, the bus was completely packed because the mountain closes at 5.30! Unfortunately most of us couldn't get seats. The rocky roads down made us cling on to the handrails for dear life and we felt like vomiting after getting down =.="

Adventure to Yehliu, Jiufen and Shifen

(Booked a car for 8 people, 625NT each for the day)

Yehliu is a beach with many rocks, the most famous one being the queen's head, which is circle by small rocks on the photo above, and as you can see, there was a queue to take pictures with it!

Kiasu Singaporean queued up too!

Jiufen and Shifen were very nice too! Jiufen had a street of many local food (our favorite was the peanut ice cream as pictured below)

Shifen had a beautiful waterfall and scenery so we were snapping pictures non stop (in between hiding under the umbrella because the weather is sooooo hot)

We also went to the railway to release a lantern with our well wishes!

Lol this is the typical kind of wishes an all-girls group will come up with:

And here are somewhat more serious wishes @.@

One group photo before we release the lantern!!

Yay! Think I finished blogging all the more important stuff! Phew!

Back at NTU it is already going to be recess week but it's only week 1 here! NSYSU was super oversubscribed this time and so it's quite unsettling as most of us haven't got all our mods yet. Apparently the add/drop is really informal- instead of waiting for slots to open up, there is this "abnormal add drop" period that we can ask the prof to discretionarily add us in. I still don't know what's gonna happen to all of us LOL.

Something epic that happened on Monday

Since auditing wasn't (and still isn't) accepted by NTU, I went to ask the Prof over at NSYSU why was that so LOL. Turns out that he didn't know auditing was rejected. 'Twas begins the story of how I became the middleman between both schools and passing on information through emails. I dunno why no one else did this hahahhaha. 

And today when everyone from NBS was gathered at NSYSU, the coordinator suddenly asked me to stand up and thanked me for my contributions!!! "让我们谢谢 Angerlah" Haha I almost wanted to find a hole to hide but there was no escape TTTTTTTTTT so now my housemates keep teasing me that I'm "famous" and calling me Angerlah LOL. 

Haha apparently we are going to Kenting the day after tomorrow but haven't planned/booked accommodation/itenarary yet. Stay tuned for updates!