I went to one of the Taipei night markets this evening… they’re not nearly as neato as the BKK ones. And there are no banana pancakes. It makes me sad.

Maybe I have a love affair with Thailand because it was my first travel time alone – could be, I guess. Taipei doesn’t seem to have as much character – lots of plain office buildings. We did get caught in the crush of “cram schoolers” leaving their cram schools. It’s like super-study school. I think they go from like 6pm to 10pm. Crazy. There were MAD amounts of kids in the subway station. They seem to be obsessed with academics – not like I didn’t know this from secondhand, though.

Regardless, the South was much warmer and I like it a lot, better, I think. The Taiwanese words I’ve learned are spoken differently down there (a Southern accent if you will), so everyone tries to correct me now up here in the North!

I have more meetings tomorrow – woo – and I think I’m about done with them… enough meetings to last me like a month or two, at least!