Froggie love!

It was a nice, mellow day today; today is the Taiwanese Peace Memorial Holiday, so there were no classes (and it's Nellie's Golden Birthday!). It was a sunny 78 degrees (Fahrenheit), and Emily and I started the day with a run. I was told to expect to lose weight while here--that has not been the case. Saying you'll lose weight in Taiwan is like saying you'll gain muscle by eating meat. You can do these things, but you also have to work out (plus being in the capitol, at a nice school is different than being in a small town in the country--I have a lot more...and unhealthy...options).

ANYway, running sucks a lot less when this is your view:

Plus, after just one bout, I'm back up to my regular three miles of run time, which makes me feel a little better about my general laziness last semester. :/

The campus is absolutely stunning on a sunny day; we have a lot of beautiful flowers to gaze at!

I walk past these every day

I don't know if I'm allowed to pick them, though (photos by Emily)

We went into the shop and got a lot of work done on our corsets, and at the end of the day, I felt the need to Bro-out. Enter: Light beer, petite steaks, and a giant can of sweet corn. All that was missing was a Bruce Willis flick. :)

We learned that tonight is also the night that ALL of the frogs on campus decided to spawn! It was a froggie orgy out there! I thought they were monkeys, based on the strangely high-pitched croaking, but then almost had a pair hump on my sandal...get it, get it, frogger! 

This guy isn't happy that I interrupted him and his lady

So...uh, yeah. Not every blog will be a cultural revelation--sometimes you just gotta grab a beer, kick back, and watch the frog orgy.