Arrival

I've made it to Taiwan! We had a delay in Chicago due to weather, which caused us to miss our connecting flight from Seoul, south Korea to Taipei, Taiwan. The airline gave us a free stay in a hotel for the night and vouchers for free dinner and breakfast. The rooms were very nice, wouldn't have minded staying there the whole trip! Breakfast was amazing.. A huge buffet of anything you can imagine. One of the girls with me on the trip, Melanie, asked her friend from Taiwan before she left what they usually have for breakfast and she just said, "anything you want!" Guess she was right! Our flight to Taipei was also a very good flight.. I'm very impressed with Korean airlines! Once we got to the airport, NCCU had arranged for us to be picked up and taken to the university. We expected a bus, but got very nice black luxury cars! It was about an hour drive to the university, and neat to see the city along the way. Once we got here we got moved into our rooms.. Basically like dorm rooms in the US with a bathroom in each one. Then we went out to explore.
We found a restaurant down the street for supper. We got giant bowls of noodles and soup for about $5.. It was great! Then we found a store and bought breakfast food and other stuff we needed. I feel like we are much louder than everyone here, and hope our group splits up some in the future so we're not such a big loud American group.

Jess- I've been very thankful for the Teddy Grahams! I got quite hungry on my flights :)
Leanne- it's so nice not having to worry about blowing a fuse with my electronics, the outlets here are the same! :)

I'm kind of disappointed cuz they only offer Ethernet in our dorm rooms, which I can't hook up to my iPod. But there is wifi in the lobby so I just have to come down here when I need to use it. It's kind of hard to type well on my iPod, so there may be lots of typos!

We start class tomorrow, and I'm super excited for it. We go to meet our lab advisors at 9ish tomorrow, and then I believe we have an orientation after that. Mel and I are planning on wearing red white and blue :)

I'm excited to meet my "buddy" Wei-ting. She's offered to help me with lots, like finding a cell phone and walking us to campus inthe morning. She may be stopping by my room tonight, so I should probably head back up there in case she does. Miss you all, have a great 4th!!