Out on my Own (for like 30 minutes)

Today was the first day that I left campus totally by myself. I got a taxi, told him where to go (well, gave him a sheet of paper that said the address of where I wanted to go in Chinese), and figured things out on my own once there. It was a rather thrilling experience; I feel like a real adult again, one who can make their own decisions and get to places on their own.

I don't often want to pay the $100 NT each way to get to my local grocery store alone, but once in a while it is nice to go be by myself for a while out on the streets of Taichung. What will be even better is when I get a scooter of my own. It shouldn't be too much longer until I get my ARC card (basically like my green card for Taiwan) which is the only thing stopping me from getting one right now. So hopefully, soon I will be able to scoot away from campus whenever I want to which will totally rock my world!

Until then I'm ok with the cab drivers because they can understand my horrible chinese directions well enough (I make my students tell me how to say things which is pretty surprising that they haven't misinformed me yet as a cruel joke).

What? You can't understand that I'm saying "right"? It's cool, I'll just point in that direction because that is universal. You're awesome taxi driver man, I'm so glad you're playing the Ke$ha CD right now...(true story)