Second week ...

Omg i really have to write blog entries more often, because if i stop now, I will never write one again....

So ah, hm were to start with. Since my last entry is one week old, there happened like soooooo many things. I even cannot remember some of them. I have to look at at the photos to remind ...
The last week was a little busy because classes started, and we had to take the medical examination on monday. So I choose some of the courses which might could be interesting, and listened to what the teacher said. So I decided to take the Non-objective painting course, the teacher is really cool. And we will visit Taipei for about 8 out of 16 lessons. Coolio! So then i decided to take the 3 grade Design studio, and the main project is to develop an I pad application. The 3. class is Web Design and no I am still not sure wether I should take the material design course or not. Because I am allowed now to take courses from a diffrent department. And there is the Chinese Mandarin course for beginners as well. Like 5 courses. A lot to do!!!

Pepper Chicken at a malaysian restaurant. Caliente but very good. I know it looks like something diffrent :)

 Then someday, I have no idea which one it was, we, the germans, went to a Teppanyaki with Joseph( Taiwanese) Michelle( San Salvador) and Gaggy( Thai).

This one was on Tuesday I think. After class. The place ( restaurant) looks really cool. Kind of Mediterian. They offered the best garlic bread I had so far.

This is a statue at the 7th floor. of Design Studio. In front of the elevators. Ah ya we had to clean the classroom at first and we had our first lesson in the corridor. Funny

This is the traditional japanese Takoyaki. They are balls made out of tart, with Calamari inside, fried in a special fefrfgrfgf and then served with a special sauce,
seaweed and dried fish skin and mayonnaise . Sounds disgusting.But it is actually so good. Take a look at
cooking with dog =>

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHDmVhShE80


So on Friday at about 7 am ( yeah so early!!!!) we started our Lugang Trip.
It is said to be that Lugang is one of the most traditional Cities in Taiwan. With lots of temples, old building..... So we arrived there 3 hours later. At about 10 am. And it was already that hot. Maybe because Lugang is in the Middle| West part of Taiwan. It was so hot. By the way so hot in chinese means hao re. Like toooooooo hot!!! Thats exactly what it was like. We were sweating without doing nothing. Besides of breathing.  So the first point on our timetable was a small temple. Really nice!!!!

 So this was the first temple. Some of us took part a special kind of ritual. But I have no idea how it works, because I didn't pay attention :(

The inside

Whatever. I think Toby showed me how my camera really works. So I have an idea for the fist time since I bought it.

This was an ugly, colorful fish whatever in the court of the temple . Not nice to look at.  Actually the real one is a lot uglier!!!!
Augenkrebs!!!!!

This was the 2nd temple, i think the more popular one. Really, really nice. But so hao re!!!!

This is a part of our group. So there were just international students from Yuan Ze University and some students from Taipei. ( just a part of the group)

So after we had lunch, we went to some kind of artist " village" in Chang- hua to do some Lion Painting. So as you might have recognized the mask is actually a lion. So everyone started to paint their lions, and I was like I don't care, its toooo hot. I don't want to stay here for 2 hs. Aufbruchstimmung!!!!!!! Thats why I tried to draw Spongebob.
And he actually does not look at all like Spongebob. But they were crazy about it. Especially the Locals. He is very popular in Taiwan. :) Does it look like SB?

So yesterday Ling, Blair, Claudius and me went on Trip to Taipei.
And I have to say I wanna stay at Taipei for ever. Its so great. So cool.
At first we meet at german girl from Frankfurt in the train. See ya btw. And afterwards we were heading for a Hong Kong Style restaurant. It was sooo good. I had Hong Kong style noodles with beef in ginger sauce. Mui bene.

So stupid me. This is the only foto i took. Maggi!!!!! It is common in Taiwan. As Ferrero and Nestle :)










So after dinner( Ling had to help some Italians, we never meet before to choose their food) we were heading towards 101. Very slow. Doing some window shopping. Going to the Luxy (most popular Club in Taiwan) Visiting the memorial.

Wachablöse... do not know how to say that in english.
And the statue is like the founding father of Taiwan.

Metro. Ling in the front, Blair and Claudius.

So on the 1st two floors of 101. There is like, Gucci, Prada, Armani, Longchamp, Chanel....
The cheapest one is Esprit i think.
But not really crowded. And Blairs sister joined us at 101.

So the elevator goes up there in like 15 sec. 400 meters. Thats insane.

So we decided to wait until sundown. So we used our coupons to have a ......
Taiwan beer with vanilla ice cream. Sounds disgusting. But I am afraid I have to say its not that bad actually....sorry

I f you enlarge this pic  you can see a "real"  UFO.  Above the river in the middle. The black ball

So afterwards we went to a popular Night-market.
Especially students like it because its between two of the biggest Universities of Taipei. And the best thing about this place is..... it is motor free. Except of taxis.

We went to a popular chinese style restaurant, were blair used to work at.
This place was so nice, the food was sooo good! One of the best so far. And the interesting thing about this restaurant is, that it belongs to a famous former actress in Taiwan.So we meet her. Everyone in this restaurant was soooo kind. And they invited us to join them at the Oktoberfest in the local german bakery. Thanks again!!!

Lots of fotos....

So, since I did not really took that much photos the last few days, I decided to change this matter. Yesterday It totally has been a Fast-food day :( First of all it stared, like some students asked us if we wanna Mc Donalds. Its actually the same taste as in germany. But here they mangae to keep everything hot until they delivered it. Yeah its true Mc Donalds delivers in Taiwan. Check this out=>

So Mc Donalds is like 10 minutes away. If you take a scooter.













As I already said it was Fast-Food day so we went to the local shopping mall because I needed lots of stuff. And guess what. It sells Erdinger Kristallweiße und a dunkle. Nice!
I bought some stuff at Ikea and its a lot more expensive than in germany :(

Btw. It has 3 floors. And there were Kötbullar mhhhh mhhhh.
But we have been to Mos Burger before so skiped....

And of course they sell the same stuff as in germany as well, so you might be familiar with this one?!

I took this foto on a pedestrian bridge, platform whatever. It showes rushhour.











So at night some local students invited lots of exchanges students to a "welcome" like party. At the only bar near campus Mini 98 :) Where we have already been yesterday.
All I can say is that Taiwanese can party really hard. And their dancing skills are really good especially some of them ;) he he wont tell you anymore!

So I took this foto at 6. am in the morning.Couldnt sleep again. So sun rises around 5-6 am.

This is how the inside
looks like. There is pole
in the middle of the bar.
Which everybody is
allowed to use. Costumers
and of course professionals.
Sorry for the bad quality
btw I took lots of fotos
with my HTC. Ah and did
you know that HTC is
actually a Taiwanese Brand?
The factory is really near
Chungli.

Hab das Bild von Claudius Blog geklaut aber das ist auch schließlich mein Dach, also geht das geht klar.

So we enjoyed the first Weizen in Taiwan at the 14. th floor/ rooftop of my apartment building. And Jason from the Philippines said: That after drinking a Weizen every other beer offered here tastes like piss. Funny guy but he is right !!!!! ;)

So now it was like 5 o clock in the morning, and I was not supposed to sleep (Btw we all were at Mc. Donalds for breakfast so it truly was a fast food day) I decided to take some fotos because the weather was perfect. Check this out. Nice isnt it?

Same view, same time, but other foto technique...

The inside court of our Building.
It is like an atrium...

Thats how Yuan Ze University looks like. It has really an interesting style of architecture.
So the grey buildings in the middle of the foto are some of them. But the campus is a lot bigger!

There is a gym at the campus, a indoor swimming pool, a baseball court, soccer, basketball, beach volleyball, volleyball, tennis... and so many more :)
It is really really great and I am not sure wether I should stick with the, Teak Won Do, Kung Fu or Volleyball Club. ????

All I have to say, it is 6 am and there are already about 1000 scooters at the Campus.... guess what it looks like in the afternoon :D

This building is called the spacecraft landing platform. And  there rumors that there is a helicopter landing platform on top it :)

 This is a very big mysterious rock in front of my department uhhh....






















My department...
and of course the mysterious rock in front of it :)













After taking this picture, guess who I have meet. Claudius!
could not sleep as well :) Ha ha. He was talking to some friends in
Germany... We were both so thirsty. There is so much going on
at the Campus at this time. Crazy. Lots of people practice Tai Chi.
Really interesting to watch! So half past 8 in the mornig.
I guess thats kind of a new afer hour going on! :)

last but not least a small panoramic view from over the rooftop.