Southern Taiwan

I visited a friend of mine who lives in southern Taiwan. I knew him back at Minnesota State University, however, he is not an English teacher in Taiwan. He goes to school at an Arts University called National Tainan Arts University. He's really quite talented, and I believe he is the only foreign art student in Taiwan, or, at least that's what he was told by a distinguished arts professor here. I thought the University had an interesting look, but it just felt....Asian. Or more specific, it felt non Japanese Asian. It's difficult to describe. In The States, Universities feel very planned. Whether it's a big city University, or a small town college, the University area is always planned out. Now, this is not to say that all Universities in Asia are unplanned, chaotic places. Not at all. It's that everything else has an air of chaos to it. Planning is non existent, or at least that's how it appears. And that is how this University felt. When I was driving around Guantian Township, it was like roads were just laid down with no rhyme or reason.

We went to a country night market, and it was pretty damn country. The people were chewing binlang like it was going out of style. I've never seen so many red teeth in my life. I also took a long drive around the township. I drove around for about an hour, and it was pretty fun. It was my first drive around rural Taiwan. I took some video with my cell phone camera, and I'm trying to get it edited right now. I should have that posted in a few days. Another highlight was a reservoir located directly behind the University. It was refreshing to smell the lake smell I so badly miss