Saturday, July 27, 2013

Day 64 -- July 27

Today ended up being a Reno group hang out day. We all went to Magic Bagel for an American-ish style breakfast. Finding breakfast here is about as easy as finding a person who speaks fluent spanish. You can find them it’s just darn near impossible. But the food was actually really good and I enjoyed the banter between everyone. We just sat and talked awhile about the next week. Johnny friend is coming in and they are going to be essentially touring the man around. I will bee going with them to Taichung on Tuesday. I will have class on Monday so it all works out quite nicely for me. I may hop in on some of the activities on Sunday or Monday but I am not quite sure yet. I need to make sure everything is set up so that going to Taichung is easy to do.

    After breakfast Jillian and I split off to go to the Botanical Gardens. It’s a free area that’s essentially a really large park with labeled flower areas. We had a fantastic time. We just wandered around for a good hour or two and snapped pictures. The chatting is nice it was fun to have girl time. We are usually always with the boys so it was nice to just be girls for a bit and run around doing what we wanted to do. I had so much fun taking pictures and I have a lot as usual I’ll let them do the talking for the beauty of the gardens. This pictures will be after the rest of the day. I didn't have a whole lot of time to upload so I couldn't adjust them the way I wanted.

    After the Gardens we went back to GongGuan where we went in search of bookstore with English books. What actually happened was us wandering up and down the shops and just checking things out. I actually went to an area of GongGuan I had not been before which was really cool for us. Again it was nice to just look around and the shops. When out with the boys they tend to be very mission oriented so browsing and looking about can be a little bit frustrating or darn near impossible in some cases. I ended up getting a few cheap hair things to help decorate my short hair. Jillian and I had a good time just chilling, we decided that we would go see a movie. The new Wolverine movie was out so we got everyone tickets and went to see the movie.

It was a truly awful movie. I don’t know if it’s because I am in Taiwan, but the whole thing seemed ridiculous in the “white man saved the beautiful Asian woman from her own culture” way. There was an intense amount of stereotyping and the problem was the movie wasn’t even joking. It was too serious and too much.  Every single one of us walked out of theater really upset and just shocked about how terrible it was. We ended up going out to dinner and just trying to get our minds off of it.

    After dinner we were doing slightly better, though both Jillian and Johnny felt the need to warn people about the movie on Facebook. We headed into the night market for some after dinner fruit. The pineapple was particularly good tonight, I was incredibly pleased. We headed back to the dorms and called it a night. It was the first time I had been home all day, it was nice to hang out and be quiet. I am a little bit bummed though, my head phones have broken so I gotta go spend money on that tomorrow. Not super thrilled but I gotta have them for the courtesy of others. It’ll work out in the wash. I’ll say good night for now. Tomorrow will probably be a rest day but we shall see.




































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