The President's House, Tacos, and a Puppet Show
Hopefully this post won't be quite so long in coming as the last, but, that said, it will probably be a lot shorter. Last Tuesday morning, I was still staying at Mati's house, and woke up later than usual. We got ready, ate some small sandwiches for breakfast, then walked to the MRT and took it together to Ximen Station. There we met up with all of the other Chinese classes, and walked to the President's House. We sat around for at least 30 minutes outside, then in a few separate groups entered the house for a tour. We walked through a museum that included information about the building's creation and history, the history of traditional people in Taiwan and some artifacts, some symbolic paintings related to Taiwan, the President, and the building itself, as well as some more modern inventions by Taiwanese people. In my group only three of us were paying attention during the tour - Mati, an american named Ali, and I - so the tour guide was only speaking Chinese and