The second week here has been a bit more quiet. Not so much happened as the first week I were here.
I put up a few of the pictures I took during this week on flickr already, clicky!
Still, this week has been a bit harder on me because I haven't been feeling very well all the time. It's not because I have been sick, but I think my system is not really used to the food yet and since I have been eating the food and breathing the air here for a long time now, my system is about to run out of danish.
So this makes me very tired every time I haven't eaten for a while, and I can get headaches if I breathe polluted air directly from the streets below for too long. Especially the previous two days have been hard on me, but today I actually feel very well. Perhaps my body is finally adjusting to the environment, and if it is, it wasn't that painfull actually.
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During this week I got to meet the other exchange students in my district, although only very brief.
A good advice I'd like to give out for anyone else going to do the same as me: (suddently jump from a north-european country like Denmark, to a tropical country on the other side of the globe like Taiwan,) is to make sure to drink a lot of water and have a lot of snack with you so that you can eat something every few minutes, and when you eat a meal, eat a lot. The food is very delicious down here, so there's no reason you shouldn't - however, try to stick with the soups, rice and noodles, perhaps eat some sushi or cooked chicken and a lot of vegetables for starters. Some of the rice cakes can be hard to digest so they're better to save for a time when your system is more used to the food, and also meat is always a good thing to limit when you're in another country.
Oh, and don't buy the cakes down here if you're looking for something that tastes sweet. If you're lucky, you get a crunchy bamboo-something, and if you're not, you might get yourself something with some rice powder that has a slightly sweet but absolutely horrible taste. (But if you really crave cakes very much, you can probably find some cake with actual sugar at a japanese store if you're willing to go and look long enough.)