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I’ve spent the whole day at Shi-Da. This is my day. This is my life. I haven’t made any friends yet though I have talked to several people. One person was this old guy (he looked around 40) from Malaysia. I was actually quite scared of talking to him. I kind of ran away when the conversation winded down. Then I went and got lunch because I had been starving for 2 hours but I wasn’t willing to just GO and get food. I had to be an stubborn ass and sit on the 7th floor of the Mandarin Language Center and read everything that I could get around to reading… of course I was bored out of my mind.

My classes start tomorrow, they are from 2:10pm-4pm. I am also going to sit in on a culture class for Taiwanese level 2 — just to see how it’s like. I’ll probably understand the Taiwanese pretty well, but oh well, it gives me something to do tomorrow.

Yesterday I was definitely out of my mind to go on crying like that. At least I was saved by my “aunt” Chiaying. Today I’m being saved by my cousins Agnes and Jack. Whew. This eating meals alone business is quite scary. I just went to a bakery and grabbed a sandwich for lunch and then went over to 7-11 to get something to drink. Perhaps I will try other foods soon, but I am still not feeling too “brave” to venture out into the city alone… and anyway it was raining like crazy when I went out to get food and my sandals got complete soaked… and they still are… no matter how long I’ve had them out to dry, they haven’t dried yet. Craaaap!

I’m in the Shi-da library now just using the computers up in the front. I have nothing better to do so I might as well sit here and just use the computers. It’s actually quite nice. It’s air conditioned in here. I can bring my laptop too since they have wireless access. Yay for wireless.

If I can at least make like 1 or 2 friends here to just hang out with all the time I think I will be able to survive the life here. It’s really quite boring when you don’t have anyone to talk to. My cousins and aunt are all working, so I can’t hang out with them… Too bad I can’t get a job, because that’d be EXCELLENT.

Maybe I can convince Chiaying’s boss to let me just do menial work at her workplace. I really have nothing else to do… then again my class is in the middle of the day so I can’t exactly go off to Chiaying’s to work… maybe for the morning to lunch time. OMG… I am so weird… working for free really isn’t my style.

I really need to find an english bookstore. Tomorrow I am supposed to venture out to Computex at the Taipei World Trade Center to visit Chiaying. It’s supposed to be an international information technology show for people who import and export. It’s not open to the public, but Chiaying said she can get me in on a working pass or something. I think that’s totally awesome since I love computer shows and since it’s supposed to be all new tech stuff, I’m super excited!

Oh, last night my roommate didn’t come back which I thought was super weird… I slept the whole time and she never came back… I woke up around 4:30am because I was sweating like crazy… It was just too warm inside the room even though I had the air conditioner going. I think somehow the temperature adjusted, since when I went to sleep it was freezing COLD.

FINALLY, they turned off the stupid piano that was playing classical music. I love classical music and all, but that piano was super annoying…

I also got my books for my class tomorrow. The readings are relatively easy but there are still words that I don’t know. I think I need to go out and by memorization cards. Hmm… seriously, somehow I managed to stay at the Shi-Da area since around 9am this morning. It’s about 5:38pm here right now. So I’ve been here for around 8.5 hours. WOW… I managed to waste my day. I need to go buy some books to read or I will go insane. Perhaps I will download some more digital books into my pda so I can read them randomly. Anyone recommend any good “classic” novels (since those are usually the ebooks that are free). Maybe I should PURCHASE some ebooks… erm no. I prefer the hardcopy stuff over the digital stuff. Even though I am a digital maniac.

I’ve written a lot today haven’t I? I guess it’s since I don’t have much to do so I get to ramble on about the random things that come to my head. Well this is why I also have a blogger and livejournal too. Plus I post on Forumosa.com and other random places. I don’t know if I should move out of the I-House and try to find an apartment. I want to live in a place of my own, but then it’s super hard to find a place for only 3 months and even if I move out after my one month that I paid for at I-House it’d be even harder to find a place for 2 months. Maybe someone would be willing to host me! 😀

Anyway, I still have like 20 minutes until my cousin comes to get me, so perhaps I will write an entry in livejournal or something.

[This entry was taken from my old blog, Away from Home. Formatting may have changed when moved to Explore!]