Yeah. Now you're warned. Taiwan's weather is infamous for having some pretty hefty temperature swings. This year has been one of the worst.
Seen those pictures from Yangmingshan I took last Friday? It was rather hot, and that's even though I was up in the mountains. Apparantly, two days ago, there had been "snow" in the higher regions of the mountain. (According to Andre.)
Weather has been especially harsh just recently. So much that people all around me are telling it's one of the worst years for a long time. (It's not often the temperature goes as low as 5 degrees, but it did recently.) Today was cold too, and metreologists are having a hard time.
Rainy days are the worst here. When it starts to rain, temperatures skydive and lots of people will get colds. (Including me. Actually I've been fighting with what I suspect to be a conspiration between cold and flu since last thursday or so. And I'm not even taking that stupid medicin that stops your immune defence from fighting it that's become so just that much popular amongst people here since "H1N1" broke out and killed thousands of people. Ridiculous name by the way.)
You could say, my body probably is going through some sort of culture shock now. It's used to much more cold environments, but it can't really figure out the high air humidity I guess. Chinese new year was pretty bad and somewhat colder, (also the worst in the last 5 years or so,) but it didn't really hit me as hard as this weather rollercoaster we're in now. The poor machine here is completely out of it. I'm feeling cold one moment and then, after walking for a few minutes, I have to change my shirt because it's soaked completely from sweating. (And there's no way it'll dry with humidities like this. Especially not while it's 10 degrees celcius. It'll take sometimes a day to dry something even when it's 36 outside.)
Tonight is going to be really cold too. I imagine my cold and flu will strike back hard tomorrow if they're still alive in there.
I don't have much new pictures for you right now, as it's pretty boring out there and I'm too busy sleeping at home anyway recently, but Here's the most recent photos I shot at Chihlee College. If you're reading this article a long time after it was written, I might have added more photos from that place, but just now I've only taken some pictures of guys playing volleyball there from last Friday.
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Just FYI: Moved to my third host family last Friday too. (Busy day huh?) There's my packed luggage from before I moved. Their house is close enough to Chihlee too and it's a really cool place that I ought to tell about soon.
And then, to fill in some more, here's another youtubed piece of my new passion. The Japanese band POLYSICS, which is honestly a bit unrelated to Taiwan:
Actually I went to look for some of their music in Ximending some weeks ago. After some Mandarin/English juggling, clerks at the first store I decided to enter, managed somehow to inform me that POLYSICS didn't release any CD's in Taiwan. Most of their releases would be Japan only, and just a few were sold in America too. Damn it. *哭*
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