Out of the complete boredom of sitting in a tiny, two-roomed house watching TV in Chinese all day (it was usually too hot to be outside, plus my brother wouldn’t even let me watch Hamtaro). I decided to go spend a day at the international school we were staying on the property of.
So my first experience of an actual school was in Taiwan. It gave me the idea that kids in real school do absolutely nothing in class. That idea hasn’t changed. It was fun, though. Interesting, since most of the kids ran home for lunch (most of them lived on campus), or went out to buy food from street vendors.
When we were sitting in the library I felt really dizzy for part of a second. It was the strangest feeling in the world, I had no idea what had just happened. Then I heard someone ask, “Did you feel the earthquake?”. I looked up, and the lamps that were hanging from the ceiling were rocking back and forth. When I think of earthquake, I think of this. I don’t think of split-second, weird feeling It was so bizarre. I’m usually asleep when we have earthquakes at home, and they usually aren’t as strong as the one I felt.
Of course, this was just a normal, everyday experience for everyone else. That’s why the Taipei 101 building was built to sway with earthquakes.
