So today I finally got rid of jetlag. Not...
But of course it's a lot better now, although, funny as it is, jetlag was not a problem in the first 4 days. It did cause some trouble lately though, but today is, after all oficially the day at which jetlag should go away because I have now been here for a week.
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This picture is taken from David's house in the evening.
I've tried a lot of new stuff in the past week. Everything down here is upside down you know. (I'm on the other side of the earth of course.) And people do everything differently. The Taiwanese don't really like sweet stuff so cakes are not really sweet. They eat almost only weird stuff, so only things I put my teeth into that were familiar has been lamb chops, broccoli and this evening some dried apricots (that were imported, so they are probably from the same place at those imported dried apricots I ate back in Denmark.) Oh, and the broccoli didn't taste like broccoli at all anyway.
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Taipei is not as shiny as other metropolises if you look into the dirty corners. It does have a lot of not that well kept facades, but just so you know: A lot of houses may look like this on the outside, but they are in top condition on the inside, so these are not full of poor people just because they look ugly.
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When it gets dark though, Taipei starts looking like this if you go to the popular places. This is a night market, here, you can buy all sorts of nice stuff, especially snacks. Other parts of the town can get very beautiful because of the lights the folks put up to make them glorious in the night.
I don't have many pictures of the city yet, but I can tell you: A lot of places are very interesting-looking, especially at night, because this city has a lot of famous places just like the places in Tokyo where photographers like to snap photos because everything is shiny and hi-tech. I have a lot of pictures of the food I ate though.
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This is some sort of Korean food. You sit down at a plate standing over a fire, then the waiter will turn it on and pour boiled water over the plate which has a number of different vegetables, some mushrooms, doufu and pork. The metal plate is shaped in a way, so that you can fry the meat while the other stuff is boiling with the water. Then when you eat all this with a bowl of rice and another non-metal plate of cold vegetables and mushrooms different from the ones on the metal plate.
Ok. Lotsa pictures upped today. If everything goes well, I can probably make a flickr photostream or something with all the other pictures. (I have already generated over 200 MB of pictures and they are not even super high quality.) I still need to cover a lot of details for the week, but it's getting late.
Wan An you guys. Make sure to tell your friends about this blog so that I can get more attention, haha. I might very well start writing about more interesting stuff and perhaps get some more pictures into the posts from now on.
And don't worry about me, people are really nice down here! Some day soon, I will write more about that.
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Wan An!