Today we woke up very early and I ate some weird, heated brown pudding-like substance with some slightly salty and rather weird sauce in bags that I had to pour over it aswell as some sauce with garlic and some sauce with chili. It was a very weird breakfast for me, and actually I didn't really enjoy it as much as I enjoy everything else. (Just had to note it because it's a pretty strange thing to eat in the morning I think.)
Joni and I have been really lucky all through the day because wherever we tried to park there were always a spot for us apparently. Well, we did get some pretty good fortune scrolls at the temple yesterday, so maybe that buddhism thing isn't that bad at all.
We went to the school to turn in the papers and accept the school rules. I can't wear sandals, shorts or sleveless t-shirts, woot? - And I have to be in school at 8 am sharp to 4 pm with no exceptions except for rotary meetings or special agreements that I have to tell them about two days before I am going to be absent. That's really strict, and I can't even drink in the classes. How am I going to survive in this harsh environment wearing so much clothes and not even being allowed to drink while the classes are on?
Oh well. After visiting the school we went to get my alien resident certificate, so I am now a certified alien, lol. There I met Fredrik, another danish exchange student applying for an alien resident certificate as well, so I could finally, (or maybe the more right thing to say would be already,) speak my national tongue again. English is very much harder to speak, especially when everyone around you know not how to speak english, but only how to speak engleese. (Although it seems like Fredrik is having even more of a hard time because his host family don't speak english at all.)
I think we have most of the important things done now, especially now I have my alien resident certificate, so from now on we will probably be a bit less busy and have time for preparing a three minute long speech that I am going to have in front of the whole school on next monday when school starts again all over Taiwan.
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After we got all the legal stuff alright I got me a taiwanese sim-card so that I can start calling people at rational prices, a converter for my electronic devices, although I don't think it can convert the power alright. I need the voltage to be correct so I don't fry my stuff when I turn on the power. And then, after that, we went over to David's house to eat more delicious free food. That place is the best, and there's always so many nice people there (the family of course).
Daniels father, Alex, and his family later showed me around the tourist night market in Taipei and there I finally got me some more shorts so that I won't have to change between the same two pairs all the time. (I bathe two times a day down here because it is so hot and that's the norm. Besides, I don't want to be smelly and make people around me uncomfortable, but luckily enough that doesn't seem like such a big problem actually, because even though it is extremely hot and you get sweaty really quickly, you don't smell that quickly.)
But I digress. Damn it. I finally got to a night market, and although I ate too much to eat anything there but a bubble tea, (yeah, you kinda eat bubble tea,) because I was so stuffed from eating all that good food at David's place. Grandma there made me eat a lot, haha. But it was very exciting to see. A lot of different smells, sounds and visual impressions. Just an awesome and really interesting place that I think I am going to visit a lot and maybe practice some photography on when I get a better camera.