Tiffany Hwang
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Aden had my cloooothes and I missed them so much and my life just got 92730424x better for the fact that my clothes have been located. I most missed my cool new yellow robot shirt from Yilan. However, they are now being washed and I am re-nervous that they are going to get lost again… crossing my fingers.
There’s very little to do around Tainan where we are. Headed to the Chin Men Theatre and the guy who showed us around was so kind. He gifted us little chunks of the old collapsed roof with identifying plaques attached, postcards, and a free movie. However, I don’t like seeing movies in theatre so I left to see what was around. Upon realizing that was nothing, I headed back to the hotel under the direction of a lady at the theatre. Took me like thirty minutes and a few repetitive walks up and down a few streets, but I made it hoooome.
Apparently, 珍珠 means the little baby tapioca balls in Tainan while it means the larger pearls in.. everywhere else. Unpleasant surprise of the day.
I have 92370 unanswered questions about the Chinese language. I’ve asked 2775293 random people these questions for their opinions but I’m missing something to create my own. I wonder if Taiwan will ever switch over from Traditional to Simplified Chinese, from Bopomofo to pinyin, what Taiwan’s version of Ebonics/slang entails, how people decide to switch from Mandarin to Taiwanese within conversations, whether and why the Taiwanese language is looked down upon by the further educated, and whether Taiwanese will die out as a language. I wish I understood Taiwanese.
Anyway, I AM REUNITED WITH MY CLOTHES! YEH!
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