For my birthday dinner we went to eat steak at T.G.I Friday's. There, I recieved a happy birthday song in Chinese and English from the staff and ate a New York Strip. Afterwards, I was so tired from the busy day that I fell asleep at about nine o'clock!

Yesterday we went to the harbour in Keelung City. There we ate a lunch of mysterious foods that (I think) included squid, some sort of seaweed, whole shrimp, and fish skin. Afterwards, we visited the fish market. I have never seen so many fish in one place! There were sea snails, live octopi, clams, live puffer fish, just to name a few. As you can see in the picture, in order to get a fish out of the buckets, a person would just climb on top of the edges of the buckets to the fish. About three feet behind me as I took this picture was the harbour where the fish were caught!

Wow. I wish I would have taken my camera to the CostCo last night. I can't even begin to describe how overwhelming the store was. Imagine Sam's Club in Springfield with three stories and ten times as many people in it. I never imagined that there would be any warehouse stores in Taipei! Next time I will be sure to take my camera.

Today was orientation for new exchange students to Taiwan. At the orientation, we exchanged banners with the district president, as well as learned about the laws and rules of Taiwan and communication skills. The orientation lasted nine hours! The picture above is of all of the inbound students to Taiwan. Tonight we go to CostCo to go shopping and eat dinner.

Tonight for dinner we had sushi. The sushi goes around on a conveyor belt and you can select which one you want to eat. It was delicious!

This is a typical dessert in Taiwan. I can't remember it's name or much about it except for the fact that it is semi-sweet and made out of soy beans. It was certainly different from American dessert!

This is Hank, Fiona, Sam, Justin, and I at the night market last night. We ate all sort of delicious food! I had a combination of chicken and rice that tasted just like turkey.