A trip to Taiwan

I arrived in Taipei at 1:45pm on Friday afternoon. I was supposed to arrive at 2:05, but our plane was early....but they made up for it by having all the planes come in at one time, and having only 5 lines open at customs for non-citizens. It was pretty crazy - every time they opened a new line, people would RUN to the new line, pushing and shoving each other. Yep...that's my peoples...

Anyways, I met up with Matt, although I didn't see him waiting for me. I guess I didn't really look for him...I just kinda started walking over to the right side, and eventually, he came and got me, thank god. Three very significant things about Taipei: #1 - it's hot #2 - it's humid #3 - it's really, REALLY hot. In fact, the captain came on right before we landed and told us about what time it is in Taipei and the weather, and when he said, "It's currently 91 degrees F," I cussed. And then when we got off the plane onto the connecting thingie, the humidity and heat slapped me in the face and said, "Take that, beeotch!" I cussed again. And THEN...we went outside to the parking lot, and I cussed again. Can you tell I LOVE the weather here?

We went to IKEA from the airport because Matt only has one towel in his apartment, and I also needed to get bigger, NORMAL sized towels for my relatives in Seoul to rid the small towel disease. Anyways, IKEA in Taipei was pretty much like the IKEA in ATL...except smaller...and hotter...and everything and everyone's in Chinese. I think we spent about an hour at IKEA, picking out towels.

We finally arrived at his apartment and had some down time while waiting for Matilda, Matt's girlfriend. She took us out for Hong Kong style food somewhere in the city. It was good...but it's not anything I haven't tasted before, I guess. I dunno...maybe I'm just really used to the Asian thing? I haven't really felt any culture shock. Well, except the toilet thing. The food's been good, but not great. Actually, the food that I was really impressed with is the pork/vegetable buns that they sell in the little store downstairs. We had that yesterday morning for breakfast. But, more about that later...to be continued, probably when I get back to Seoul.