Day 1

when i arrived at the airport i thought i was going to be much more nervous than i was. it was still hard to believe that we were actually going through with going to taiwan.
it mean it all seemed so surreal. it seemed like it took forever for the plane to actually take off. we arrived at the airport at around 10:30 and didnt' take off until about 2am. I ended up getting a seat next to lang lor. the take off was fine. didn't feel much at all. i pretty much slept for about 5-6 hours and then watched some movies/dozed here and there for the rest of the 8 hours.
it was pretty cool flying near and over thunder storms. once we were getting close it was getting
much more exciting. we were all anxious to land and ready to settle into our dorms. we arrived in taipei at around 6am and from there we were taken to the school. Once on campus we were pretty much orphans until someone claimed us. I guess standing in front of the international building with tons of luggage kinda gave us away. We were taken to our dorms which aren't too bad and claimed who was getting which bed. kenny, lang and I are in one dorm room and marie and nicole are just a couple doors down. Melissa, cindy, and tam have there own studio apartments. After we settled in hofu met us at the dorms, told us a couple things and went back to his office. we were all pretty hungry so we went to one of the cafeterias on campus. It's pretty nice, the food here seems so healthy and good. After we ate we went to go see hofu so we
could use his internet connection to contact our families, since hadn't had internet yet. after that we came back to our dorm rooms to shower and rest. after a bit of resting hofu dropped by our dorms and notified us that the "it" guy was ready to set us up with internet so we had to take our laptops over to the architecture building. The guy had a lot of trouble for some reason setting up the internet on my computer and it still doesn't work right. after that we came back relaxed a bit more and then went to go eat when melissa, cindy, and tam had come back from settling in their apartment. after eating we were planning on going to one of the night markets but we were all exhausted so we decided to come back and finally catch some z's. it was one of the longest days ever. but day 1 is over and day 2 begins in the morning. sleep time.