Second first day in school

Cool title huh?

Today, I started my mandarin class in the Mandarin Daily News Language Center. I'm going to go there every day between 10 am and 12 am = I only have to go to school in KaiNan Highschool between 1 pm and 4 pm, which is to live with. This is for september so far. at the end of september, I have hopefully learned bopomofo and a bit more mandarin, and by then I will have to find out what I'd like to do about my mandarin lessons for october. But that depends very much of how much I have learned by then.

When I finished my mandarin class today, I went to KaiNan Highschool and could suddenly distinguish male from female amongst my classmates, for people were wearing the standard uniform today, which means there is a difference in how the two genders are dressed. (Although, the school has a policy about hairstyle too, so I could actually just look at peoples hair yesterday to determine their gender.)

But you see, taiwanese teenagers look extremely young compared to their age, and even though most of my classmates are already 17 years old, they look like they just went into puberty a few months ago. I heard they should behave pretty much like they look too, but of course I can't confirm that yet. I do, after all, not understand a word of what they're saying anyway. They seem like very nice persons though, although it can be a little hard with all the attention most of them seem to have a very strong urge for when around me.

Today, I took no pictures, so I'll just post one that Joni took of me, while I visited Longshan Temple and still had a beard.