by Sander Tams
28. August 2009 16:02
Today we left the car at home and took the bus and MRT to the mandarin learning center in Taipei.
There, we bought two books for mandarin exercise, so that I have something to do when I am going to waste 8 hours, 5 days a week by attending to classes in a language I don't understand yet on my Taiwanese high school. We were also there to get some information about the mandarin (chinese) classes that I am going to take there, (in the mandarin learning center,) sometime soon I hope.
This is the view from the MRT train station, which is build on top of a big bridge crossing over the streets below. These big MRT-bridges can be seen a lot around some parts of Taipei, but not everywhere because the rails go underground too, especially around central Taipei. (If you didn't know already, the MRT is a network of Japanese trains in Taipei.
In Taiwan, people drink tea, lots of tea, so in every store, you don't see rows upon rows of sweet soft drinks. No. You see tea of any and every kind, and it's all cold and rarely with sugar added to. And relatively cheap too. This was kindof weird to me in the beginning: Icetea with no sugar in, but I am getting used to it. It's actually a pretty good concept.
In the bookstore inside the learning center, we met a mandarin teacher who told us about another bookstore selling learning material they didn't have in the one we were in, so we bought two books for practice in the chinese signs pronunciation, meaning and strokes for writing them, then went to the other store to find out they had the same books with a 10% discount. So we bought another two books there, went on a long walk with all those heavy books, then got to David's house again and hung out with the family as usual. That chinese styled apartment is the place to be mayn.
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