Hara Zuru Hotel Taoyuan

Last night I ordered food in for the first time. They have a service here that enables you to order food from many different places (including McDonald's and Burger King!) in Chinese or English. It was hot and raining all day, and I was also out of groceries. The food doesn't keep long here. I found some organic soy milk last Sunday, but it only lasted about a week; it came out lumpy in my cereal this morning (although I still ate it - is that bad?) The vegetables only ...

... 8221;) Back on the street, as if coming out of a trance, we realize that we fell for the first scam mentioned in our tourist guide. <br><br>Hot, dejected, and feeling both foolish and conspicuous, we retreat. Fully. Back to the hotel. No local cuisine. No exploration of nightlife. Not tonight. This evening was western food delivered to the room, and HBO on the television&#8230;but not before vowing that tomorrow, we&#8217;ll tap our inner New Yorkers and take this city on!

After global studies and physics for mariner's class I went to the gym to work out before grabbing lunch with Katie at the snack bar. I spent the afternoon relaxing in the room and trying to plan for my time in Japan. I met up with Silvi to talk about traveling together and we decided to head to Tokyo the second day in port and then come back to Yokohama the afternoon of the fourth day. Silvi wants to go to Kyoto to meet up with one of ...

Firstly, I truly apologize for the lack of updates in the last while. It's hard to keep blogging as often when you have a daily routine and you're actually living somewhere instead of traveling. Much of the same stuff happens every day...so I don't feel as inspired to blog. I do have places to talk about and big news to share with you all...so here goes... From January 1st to January 4th 2009, I went ...

... bad teeth. He had this little green dress with a pouffy skirt he bought from Toys 'R' Us, put his dreads in pigtails (held in place by fluffy pink elastics), had a sun hat, sunglasses, hiking boots (and shorts under the dress), a wand and the gross teeth. It was quite a sight! So, needless to say...I think we terrified, frightened, freaked out, grossed out a lot of Taiwanese people that night. It was great fun though!

This is my third days in Shanghai, feel like I am already in Shanghai for two weeks. I walked almost 10 to 12 hours a day, cos I got lost and walked to the wrong direction so many times, so unfortunately I have to walk back and forth, back and forth......... Actually, Shanghai is a easy city to walk around, the streets are layout nicely on the map. It just me, you know me, always having ...

... used to be apartments and homes that are now just renovated on the inside. Shanghai develops so unevenly, the streets, sidewalks, and buildings look so old on the outside, but the interiors are bright and really modern and posh looking. Her friend met up with us at the restaurant. After lunch we walked back to Anabela's work, and Jonathan took me to a nearby shopping district. We basically walked around the entire French concession and looked in all the ...

... night, one on Saturday night and then saw some 10 other places on Sunday. The place we settled on was the one we saw on Saturday night. It was fully furnished and modernly decorated. The bedrooms were not very equal in size or layout (one room was much smaller but we decided to switch bedrooms after 6 months of apartment living. We signed the paperwork...and also placed our thumbprints (in red ink) on every single page of the contract (we don't have cool name stamps like the ...

... Wee-Wee'. I told my co-teacher what the name meant and she was appalled. I asked her if there was any way she could talk to his parents and perhaps suggest an English name for him to have. She said she would and then forgot about it for a few weeks. Finally one day she came in and informed me that his parents had chosen an English name for him. I semi-jokingly said "Let me guess...they called him Willy?". My co-teacher was shocked "How did you know?". LOL!!! I laughed. "Call ...

I've visited Formosa and have fun with the Mayan river rides, cable car &amp; other rides not to mention the ethnic performances. I've been to Windows on China too, enjoying the miniture of Europe, USA &amp; other countries tourist attraction. An experience I could never forget!