Taiwan Day 11

It's still too hot here. I know, I know, I complain about the heat too much, but seriously, you don't notice the heat as much in the US when the sum of your exposure includes walking from an air conditioned building to your air conditioned car, and then from your air conditioned car to another air conditioned building. In taiwan the air conditioning in most public places is set to like 78 degrees, with the front of the building exposed to the humid, steaming air outside. It's fake air conditioning. I guess to a taiwan person, 78 is crispy cold. To me, it's what the air outside should be while the air conditioner is on inside.

Being in Taiwan is just depressing on so many levels. Besides the heat, my utter lack of skill in the chinese language is just magnified while on this dreadful island. I can't read, I can't write, and I speak the language at less than a fifth grade level. Yea, that's right. Twelve year olds use words here that I never learned. Every time I come to taiwan, I say i want to learn to read and write, but it never happens. I figure now that I graduated college, I really don't have an excuse anymore.

The one good thing I have learned in Taiwan is what I want in a girl. Seeing the girls here, I think I finally know what I want. If learning to read and speak chinese better helps me achieve that goal, then it will be a skill worth learning, since it represents a future lifetime together with some person. But they damn better want to move to america.

I don't think I could live here, even if I could read and speak perfectly. The heat is just too much. Not even that, but the highways here suck. They move agonizingly slow, most people drive at 60 km/h, which is like... oh.. 35 miles an hour. I could never live like that after speeding down the coast of california at well over 40.

I dunno if i can make 5 weeks here. I'm too humbled here. Too stupid. Too melty in the heat. Oh well, we shall see.