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Taiwan Trip Day 8 and 9

A full week of sightseeing had gone by rather quickly, and it was time for Joe and Anju to fly back home to the States. What about me? I’m crazy awesome, so I got to stay longer.

Oh schnaps! I be a poet.

For my Japanese lit class, we wrote 5 tanka poems for an assignment. Tanka poems have five lines, following a 5-7-5-7-7 syllable count.
There were five catagories we had to write our poems on: The harvest, Love, Return to school, Equinox, and Falling leaves. Guess which ones of mine belong in which catagory.
Summer warmth has left
blown [...]

Taiwan Trippu Day 10

Spent the morning lazing around a bit, and then met with Kevu and Mr. Olsen, Daphu’s old high school teacher once classes were over at Daphu’s old school. We went on another biowalk, in a different area of Yangmingshan.

Say hello to Audrey!

Life a bit bland? Add some Paprika.

Watched Satoshi Kon’s 2006 movie Paprika at a local art theatre. It was about an hour and a half long, with subtitles running along the bottom. The story flows well, and the animation is happy.
I like the art style of his movies, and they appeal to me more so than Miyazaki’s work. (Not that [...]

Taiwan Trip Day 11

Another long post!
After a lazy morning, ate some 水餃 “water dumplings,” for lunch. Some had corn on the inside, which was interesting.