or Tianmu Troubles
Read this if you're bored, and if you're 'too lazy' and this is 'too long', how do you read chapter books? I'm telling you, if you like Harry Potter or Mysterious Benedict Society, this is a tiny fraction of that.
Well, I have to say, Taiwan will not touch your heart, as they say on Taxi cabs and posters. Maybe it'll touch your head with your gallon of sweat, or your mouth with the dehydration, but not your heart. Yeah, pretty random, like the title of this blog.
We got home around the afternoon, and I was pretty surprised by sunshine. Usually it rains during the afternoon, but I guess this place has space to change. We got home, and it's hot. Yep, this place is 33 degrees Celsius! But I still managed to sweat it out. We went to a Dumpling and Noodle restaurant and had kimchi dumplings. Yes, for some people it's disgusting, but I think that you aren't a Korean if you don't like kimchi. That's going out to my sisters, and Daniel, and Adriel!
Guess what? TODAY IS 7/11! FREE SLUSHIE DAY IN THE USA! But not in Taiwan. 7-11 in Taipei is pretty major. You can't live there without seeing one. Actually, you can't walk a block without seeing one. We went to 7-11 after the dumpling restaurant (I don't advise the noodles. They're green (green tea noodles), and they taste weird with the soup.) And we were thirsty. After looking around at Sprite bottles and Coca-cola, I went to go find some popsicle because I was used to that from Korea. :) Korea is a very nice place for ice cream. Like 7-11, you can't go to a store without seeing ice cream, popsicles, or flavored ice in a bottle.
I looked around the freezer, and all I could see were Chinese popsicles and ice cream. I noticed there was Coldstone Creamery ice cream, but I was really thirsty, and ice cream does not cure that. Finally, something too familiar caught my eye (it didn't take long because the freezer was tiny). It was Melona. As most Korean people know, it's a green bar, that's pretty sweet.
Melona. Well, I don't like it that much, but if the shoe fits, wear it, or put it on. Melona isn't a very popular popsicle in Korea. On a scale of 100, 1 being the best, Melona is around 60. No offense if you like Melona a lot. It just isn't that good. There's better popsicles than Melona. Even my mom says so. And she rarely eats popsicles. Well, I'll stop ranting about popsicles and continue O.o
Congrats. You got this far, or you skimmed through it and got here. You don't get a prize.. Yet.
As I stepped outside, my Melona started melting. First things that come to mind when a popsicle melts: "NOOOOO!!! MY MELONA!!" and "I really need to wash my hands." Stuff here melts really fast. I'm serious it started melting as I stepped outside. Once, I chucked a small ice cube outside, and we live on the 11th floor. I didn't hear anything, and I think it melted before it got to the bottom. Nah, I'm just messing with you. But it really did start melting.
There's a list of stuff that you should never get caught out in Taipei.
THE NEVERS.
1. Don't get caught in the middle of a Tianmu rain. (Boom! Boom! THUNDER!)
2. Don't forget to bring money when you go to a restaurant.
3. DO NOT WEAR FLIP FLOPS WHEN IT'S RAINING HARD
4. Don't kill a cockroach with your hand. Please save US.
5. Don't talk to strangers. Chances are, they'll start speaking Chinese you don't understand to you. Try to talk to kid strangers, not parent strangers. Kids are more understanding at that.
6. Don't carry an ice cream outside. Save your clean fingers!
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Well, that's the end for now. I'm safe at home, and it looks like it's going to rain.
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