- a warm welcome from my flatmates (also European interns at Evonik) and a lot of help to get started in Taiwan
- a mattress on the floor, a desk and an office cupboard (= entire furniture of my room) in a clean flat with a big living room and two bathrooms in a 16-storey building with a large swimming pool
- busy streets with heaps of scooters driving like in Roma
- Sim card and transponder card to pay for public transport were easy to get, ATM next door
- phone: "connection not available, unable to perform operation" atm: "error. transaction cannot be processed"
- eating with chopsticks works quite well
- a lot of signs in English, very few people can speak English
- charger of the toothbrush works with the 110 V power supply, hairdryer doesn't
- greatly relieved - the atm finally decided to give me money
already the first weekend trip - my very kind workmates invited me to join them for the FGS weekend temple retreat in Kaohsiung (more information) to learn about Buddhism and experience the monastic way of life
- saw and heard a lot of things, I never came across before
- heard a lot of things, I came across quite often because they are common sense
- still cannot really connect to the idea of beeing religious
- starting to feel sick - nose closed, sore throat - probably because it is, especially compared to outside, freaking cold everywhere inside
- locked myself out of the second bathroom where all my stuff is in and gonna be a purely natural beauty on my first working day tomorrow
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