Taipei partying absurdities

So Wednesday night was the first time we went out to party, and all of Wednesday through Thursday morning was a serious marathon. To preface, I found a job teaching English to a class of kids about 8-12 years old. It's during the week Mon-Thurs from 9:30am to noon. So Wednesday morning I wake up at 6:30am to go workout before I have to teach. I go home and shower real quick and go teach, and then I meet up with Sunny and Laura and go with them and Sunny's family friends to Yangmin Mountain where we eat some delicious food and hike. Then we eat some more delicious food after hiking (eating is almost a constant activity here).

We part ways and I go home and power nap for 30 minutes and shower and then I'm out the door again for our first night clubbing in the city. Clubs here stay open until 4 or 5am! So we go out with one of my cousins and her friends to a club called Room 18 which is cool. We meet some people with names like Angel and Barbie (we didn't go to a strip club I swear, people just adopt really interesting English names here). Anyway, we do the typical club thing with partying, meeting new people, and dancing until about 3:30am. All the while I'm thinking about how I have to teach at 9:30 in the morning and how miserable I'm gonna feel. I end up getting home and to bed at about 4:30am. So to recap, I had a 22 hour day with working out, hiking, teaching, and partying... but even then I didn't get to sleep long...

I sleep for 3.5 hours, wake up with a massive headache and nauseous, throw some clothes on and head to school. The entire time I'm teaching I'm just hoping to god I don't throw up or just fall over and pass out in front of my kids... it was miserable. At least the kids are super cute and awesome (though rowdy at times). That day on my way back to class from the bathroom during their break, all the girls were hiding around a corner and jumped out to scare me. Then they ran back to the classroom ahead of me and jumped out to scare me again there. I'll have to get a picture of my kids to post. FINALLY at noon I head home and pass out for 5 hours.

Last night we went out again under much better circumstances... no teaching in the morning so I could sleep in, and the club we went to was all you can drink for just a $6 cover for the girls, but $18 cover for me (still not too bad considering the amount I drink) Here's some pics :-)

Girl on the right is Laura, Sunny's friend who goes to EVMS. Girl in the middle is my cousin Yo Chi who doesn't drink all that much but I'm kinda worried we're gonna turn her into an alcoholic by the time we leave. That mini keg had 3800 mL in it, about 11 beers and only cost $18. This was before the club when we went to this restaurant and bar that's basically attached to the factory that makes Taiwan Beer.

I crashed with the girls last night since it would've been a $10 taxi at least to get home by myself instead of the $5 taxi split 4 ways to crash at their place. The other girl is Laura's friend from EVMS. We slept 4 in that bed haha

Miss you all!