A scene in Daan Park.
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A schoolboy waits for the light to change.
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Above the traffic is the cityscape and beyond are the mountains.
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Sinsheng S. Rd. Sec. 3.
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In this picture you can see that the left turn lanes are clearly marked, and that their use seems to be optional.
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Daan Park, also known as Forest Park.
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Scooters.
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The intersection of Heping East Road Section 1 and Sinsheng South Road Section 2. Many large intersections have the type of elevated pedestrian walkway pictured here, which all seem pretty old and infrequently used.
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A caligraphy shop, with brushes, paper, ink and everything for your caligraphy needs.
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The subway trains and stations have signs in both Chinese and English, so it's very convenient to get around the city and easy to know where and where not to linger.
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The subway in Taipei is very clean. When taking it at night, I feel much safer than I did in the Los Angeles subway.
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Riding a bicycle on the streets of Taipei takes courage and determination.
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Traffic in Ban Qiao.
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Here are some friends of mine eating a famous dessert at a famous franchise at their most famous location. The table we ate at is a huge slab of stone, which is probably the most famous table of all the tables there. Clearly, words can't describe how famous it all is. I almost started to feel famous myself while I was there. The punchline to all of this, of course, is that I forget the name of both the place and the dessert. It's somewhere in Jiufen, though.
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This little meditative cat was very cute and calm, even while sitting next to a bustling walkway in Jiufen.
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An incense caldron at a temple in Jiufen. Through the caldron's arch, you might be able to see the statue of the temple's diety in the background.
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A garden pond at the National Palace Museum.
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Here I am with a couple classmates on a field trip to the National Palace Museum, Fall '05. On the right is Lixia, from Japan. In the middle is Lanyou, from Italy.
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These are my classmates on the last day of my first quarter, Fall of '05. The nice lady in blue is the teacher.
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