Today I went out in the city with Joni. As always we took the MRT and we went searching for a converter for my danish electronics and a sim card for my phone.
We didn't find any because it was sunday and some of the stores we could get them in were closed. (I think only half of the stores around here closes at sundays though.) So we will have to try tomorrow. Even a big museum we wanted to see was closed due to national holiday.
However, we went to a buddhist temple afterwards. This is a short entry so I can't write too much about it right now, but I can tell that Joni taught me how to do the praying rituals and also she told me a little about the gods there. The temple we visited is called Lungshan Temple and is a quite famous place in Taipei. It's quite old and a funny thing about it is that it holds (I think) not only buddhist relics but also some others so people practice different religions there side by side. People in Taiwan are not so strict about religion. They can mix together their preferred practices from the religions they want.
After that we went to Joni's brother, Davids house where a lot of the family gathered for sunday fun. I played some Wii with the kids (and lost to everyone). Later the older people, especially Aga (means grandpa in taiwanese) sung a lot of karaoke. Joni was pretty good too, and it was all really fun and interesting because it felt really like I was being very much a part, or at least be deep into taiwanese culture. I bet very few foreigners ever get so lucky as to use a sunday with an entire Taiwanese family.
Finally we ate a lot of food. Even more strange things I can say I have tried eating now. It was very very delicious by the way. Much better than the food we eat out in the town. I think I got another two siblings because two of the kids decided they'd like to go home with us. I will hurry to bed now because I have to get early up tomorrow.