home alone 2: Lost in Taiwan
AUGUST 12TH, 2026
FEELING: Like a dumb american!!!!!
I have officially given up on trying to fight the jet lag. My fight lasted 1 day! I would be terrible in a war. All this to say I am very tired so this might be short.
I went to class today and it was fun, we are really zipping through these units. I really enjoy the Chinese teacher we have, she’s very receptive to my goals and is also just very funny. After school I ate lunch, went to the library to do my homework, and then got a massage at a local massage parlor. Lunch was good, but they gave me the wrong order (or I picked up someone elses order? I didn’t really understand what was happening) and I ate fish. I used the massage time to practice speaking Chinese and the ladies thought it was pretty funny how chopped my accent was.
Then I decided to go back to Taoyuan (OR SO I THOUGHT!) I actually didn’t know that sometimes the high speed rail runs express and I basically went across the entire country (hyperbolic) and then had to change platforms (ugh). But I sat by this really nice guy who wanted to practice his English so we just talked back and forth in broken chinese/english for 30 minutes. Yippee!
Then the fam took me out to meet some of their close friends and eat beef noodles which were yum dot com. Now I am crashing and it’s only 9pm. Will I ever normalize my sleep???
