Another day in Tainan

This morning our group met with many of the Taiwanese students for our trip to Tainan to see a design firm + Taiwanese furniture museum. We loaded on the charter bus, which the school supplied for us, and in less than 3 minutes the karaoke was up + running in full force. I've always heard the cliche about how much Asian people enjoy karaoke and this was real live proof! I've never been a huge fan of singing, plus the words were mostly all in Chinese



About an hour of karaoke later, we arrived at the design firm in Tainan. Before entering the office everyone (all 30 of us) had to remove their shoes, which was really awesome to be in a workplace where everyone is comfortable and relaxed. The office was so clean + simplistic with thousands of magazines and books everywhere. We saw these great graphics of different stylized Chinese characters, amazing [some even looked like finger prints!]


Lunch took place on this old alleyway in a small sit down restaurant with the tiniest chairs I have ever sat on. This place was known for its shrimp rolls, which were probably the most delcious thing I've eaten in this country thus far [much different and better than American-Chinese egg rolls]. The same alleyway had the most authentic Taiwanese shops I've seen yet. I was so happy! I bought a few great souvenirs today, I wish I could have bought more but these small shops only took cash.


Later in the day we headed to the Yung Shing Furniture Museum and took a tour of the many different generations of chinese furniture from traditional to modern. The carvings and attention to detail were simply immaculate to see. The tour was a bit lengthy, oh and was given in Chinese... haha, kind of hard to understand.

Tomorrow, Tin Man is allowing just us to have a girls day [us + 5 taiwanese girls] + take the subway into Kaohsiung City to get a professional hair cut. This is a huge deal because the rule is: there must be atleast two Auburn guys with a group leaving campus. It's during the daytime and we're doing harmless shopping/haircuts, he trusts the girls taking us, so we're all really excited! I need a haircut and new sandals so badly!