ITunes is my Asian Lifeline

For the past week or so, my iTunes account has been acting funny. There was a conflict with the fact that my billing address was in the US but I'm making purchases and downloading from a Taiwanese IP address. Needless to say, a sad little error message would pop up every time I tried to buy or rent something.

Now for those of you still living in the great American heartland, this may seem like no big problem; how often do you need to buy something on iTunes anyway? If I were living in America also, I would agree. When I lived at home in the U. S. of A., I bought something on iTunes once a month maybe. But now that I'm living in Taiwan, I buy something on iTunes on a weekly basis. This may seem excessive, but unfortunately because of who knows why, you can never access sites like Hulu or watch tv shows on ABC.com or MTV.com while in Taiwan. I can't tell if it's because China still puts some restrictions on our internet access, or if the school does so (we have some sites blocked because our students use the same wireless network), or if it's an international copyright thing. Either way, I can never see tv shows online for free like I could in the US.

After four months of not having English speaking television, a girl just wants to see an episode of Glee or two! So this morning I woke up to a pleasant surprise- my iTunes account would let me download things again! For the next few hours, I will be catching up on Jersey Shore episodes I've fallen behind on. Oh how I love bad reality tv!