Theadamlife

Today i have been one whole month in Taiwan and to celebrate this i have made some observations on the taiwanese and their ordinary taiwan life. (observe that these points should not be taken for granted!) ;)

- It hardly rains here in Kaohsiung and when it does its normally only for fifteen minutes
- People likes bling bling and everything can be "pimped" up (clothes, cellphones, scooters)
- Most taiwanese dont speak english but everyone wants to talk with foreigners


- People seem to find me exotic, this because they like starring and taking pictures of me.

(that is why the bag, haha!)

- Taiwanese dont like the sun which is shown through +50 sunscreen with included whitening and additional armsleves to wear when going by scooter. When the sun is up they like to protect the head with any possible means, umbrellas, newspaper, books, bags  and my favourite, take-away food.
- You dont cook food in taiwan, unless you are working in a restaurant, food is so cheap that you eat everything out.
- even the taiwanese sweat (not only foreigners like me that are not used to the heat)
- the youth activities are (except school) going through the shopping mall, riding scooter and going to restaurants
- Everything is really cheap, eating out is usually between 10-35 SEK.
- You freeze when you are indoors and sweat like hell when outside (totally opposite from sweden in other words)
- In all drinks there is tea (even in coffee, det du mamma!)
- There is stray dogs everywhere, also various forms of bugs such as giant spiders, grasshoppers, lizards and cockroaches
- There is a 7/eleven in every block (like pizzerias in sweden)

I have met so many weird encounters and done things i didnt think i would do this far and i guess it will only keep on going in that direction. That is why i have found the slogan for this semester:

Love it or leave it!
(i am staying)

;)