台湾 - Taiwan

Well it's been about a month since I've posted anything. I'm sorry. It's a lack of free time and a little bit of laziness. I guess I will start about 3 weeks back when I was busy being an international movie star. I got a facebook message about being in a movie called Contagion on Sunday night, and they needed extras for the movie the next day. I ended up skipping class and making 600 HKD for my work. The scene we were shooting was set in a Macau casino pre-SARS infection. I was standing about 5 feet away from Gwenyth Paltrow and Steven Soderbergh(the director) for awhile.

This past Thursday, 6 other classmates and I embarked on a trip to Taiwan. No need to worry, we survived the typhoon safely with only a little bit of rain on Friday. We got in about 9 P.M Thursday evening and were at our hotel around 11. We decided we would try and check out the nightlife in 台北(TaiPei) that night and asked one of the hostel employees, Phoenix, where to go. We ended up wandering around until about 2 A.M. without finding anywhere of real interest. We woke up early Friday morning to go to a tea house and eat brunch. Unfortunately, the scenic route to the top was cancelled due to heavy wind, so we just took a bus to the top instead. The tea and food were both really good. We went to 西门(West Gate) afterwards which is one of the more famous shopping places in TaiPei. After that, we went to 淡水(Danshui) which is alongside the river. There we just walked around, and I ended up buying a pumpkin seed brittle. Unlike Hong Kong, all the people in Taiwan give out free samples, and it is amazing. After Danshui, we went to 士林(ShiLin) the biggest and most famous of the night markets in TaiPei. We walked around for a little bit but we were already exhausted since it had been such a long day.

Just want to get this post up since I haven't posted anything in a really long time. I'll get the rest up within the next couple days.