Today’s blog post won’t be too interesting, but I might as well update this blog. My grandma woke me up early, and we went to the grocery store. The grocery store looks a lot different than the ones I normally go to at home. Instead of one store with different sections of produce, it looked more like a warehouse with different stalls where different people sold produce. For example, we bought some bao zi, or stuffed buns at a stall, and we bought them directly from the vendor at the stall, as opposed to picking out the groceries we want and then going to a checkup line. Also, the grocery store was kind of like an open-air market, except there was a roof over the entire place. I also got my hair cut there because my hair is so thick, and it gets really hot in Taiwan (it’s usually over 90 degrees here). The hairstylist cut my hair really well, thinning it and giving it layers. Also, it was only 100 Taiwanese dollars! (That’s approximately $3.20 in U.S. currency). So cheap and really good quality! My grandma said that the hairstylist actually makes a lot of money because she gets a lot of customers at the grocery store.
Anyway, I didn’t have anything scheduled for today, so I stayed home the rest of the day and worked. I swept and mopped my grandma’s apartment, and then I also worked on translating some questions, uploading audio and contacting some people, as well as some side coding projects. In the evening, my grandma and I went to a clothing store because she needed to get her clothes ironed. As we were walking, a typhoon was beginning. While we were waiting for the clothes to be ironed, it started pouring rain. And then suddenly it ended. Fortunately, when we walked home, it wasn’t raining. Anyway, the typhoon is currently happening and it is raining like crazy now. It’s supposed to continue throughout tonight and all of tomorrow. I have an interview tomorrow evening, so hopefully the typhoon will clear up more by then. During the day, I will begin the glamorous and exciting work of transcribing.