I'M HERE!! Day 1

Today is my 3rd night in Taiwan... I'm sitting in an internet cafe with backstreet style chinese music playing and a chinese computer... very interesting...

About my trip so far:

I arrived in Hong Kong on Tuesday at about 8am my 2 hours in Hong Kong were pretty uneventful, then I flew to Taiwan, I had a window seat, which was really great, there are lots of islands in the sea on the way to Taiwan, it was really beautiful.

I arrived in Taiwan at about 11.30 and went through customs pretty quickly, no problems there. There was someone to pick me up from the airport (with the whole name board thing) and they showed me to a car where i was chaufered (sp) to Sesame Street school, it was weird to be taxied around, but nice. I had my first real Taiwan experience in the car, cos i tried talking to the driver... he could speak a really small amount of English. He thought i was from America ( I think that most of the foreigners here are American) so i had to try explain that i was from South Africa to him, and i failed dismally, even after trying Nelson Mandel, Soccor world cup and lions... it was quite strange

Anyway then i was dropped at the school and introduced to the other English teacher, Nandi, she is from SA, and Afrikaans, (my Afrikaans is improving already, who would have thought my Afrikaans would improve in Taiwan... lol). [just by the way Nandi is a real God send, I God really paved the way for me by putting me in the same school as her, we get on really well, and she's helped me out alot already) Then Frank (the principal ) and Fanny (one of the teachers) took me to my appartment, which is quite nice, although it was quite dirty when i arrived, especially my room, Nandi says the guy who was here before me was quite messy (in everything).

Then i slept for awhile, and finished unpacking. After that Nandi took me out exploring Taiwan, i had my first cup of Taiwanese Jasmin iced Green tea, which is my new favourite thing, and went shopping for a few things at this great shop called Seasons.

We had take out stir fry for supper ( as in take out from a street vendor... so good) and then we sat chatting for a while.

so that was my first day i'm a few days ahead now, but i'll start a new post for that.