Typical Saturday Night

Walking with my friends (and the usual
Saturday night crowds) on the main street
near Shilin Night Market

Danger: Soft Rubber Shoes

Confusing, interesting, inappropriate, and funny English signs:

Do they sell upscale cakes and clothes?

The perfect spot to say "I swear I'll love you forever"

Calling for help if drowning is strictly forbidden

This sounds like an animated kids' movie, not a company


You can't carry birds into the metro, but can you strap them to your legs?
(see Australia for details: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/feb/03/pigeon-trousers-customs-australia-dubai )

If you are wearing faded rolled-up jeans with white socks and red crocs, you have bigger problems than your toes getting stuck in the escalator

This little cell phone guy gets me every time- I think he's so cute.
Then again, I stare at him as I answer my phone loudly in English.

I'm often tempted to chew gum illegally...

"Hey! No eating allowed!

You don't know this rule? Are you an alien?"

"Sorry...

I am an alien"

A restaurant rooted in history: founded in 2002

I've never seen guard penguins before: "Pedestrians only"

Campus: National Chengchi University (NCCU)

view of the hills from the heart of campus

i have a craving to watch shakespeare whenever i sit here

i call these the pink towers

the track/field- home to golf practice every morning

in front of the administration building

palm trees! yes, i go to school on a tropical island
(i wish someone would remind the weather of that- it's been freezing lately!)

a gazebo you would not find at georgetown

the library


requisite stone lion to guard the library's books

a pretty garden on the edge of campus