I CANT READ CHINESE MENUS

i got all my medical tests done!! i think the company is paying for them, so i'm happy.
i got blood drawn for the first time! i also got a chest xray for the first time!
it was weird to see my own blood pump into the vial. when i connected what was happening with the visual i got a little queasy.


but i got over it!


yeah that's right i'm a fighter. christina aguilera would be proud.

anyways..
my cousin took me out after last night after training, and guess what i found out!

THE TITLE OF THIS ENTRY!

his girlfriend just ended up ordering something for all of us so it didnt really matter.

it was really cool too..i wish i had pictures.

we sat at a square table that had a pit in the center of it, and the waiter lowered a broth-filled urn-pot with live coals underneath it into the pit. it felt like hot pot the way my ancestors would have eaten it!

actually wait my ancestors are probably from China.

but oh well they probably did it too!

the broth was filled with chinese medicines, so it felt extremely healthy. the herbs and roots probably counteracted all of the grease that was floating at the top.

OH WAIT WAIT WAIT. I FOUND OUT A WAY TO GIVE A VISUAL!

So, imagine that the trash can is the urn-pot (just the pot would have been fatter with handles), and that the suitcase is the fire beneath it. YEAH!


Now, imagine that this was our table! actually, our table wasn't much bigger than this. i had trouble fitting.
NOW, put the two together!!!!! (just imagine the trash can is under the table and poking out through a hole in the center of the stool.)


TA DA! there you have it! that was more or less my dinner last night!


oh fun fact:
you can't flush toilet paper/toilet cover seats in taiwan cuz the pipes are too narrow. you have to throw it out in the small trash can in the bathroom stall.

AND
taiwanese are more anal about garbage than japanese. IF you can believe it.


...which is weird cuz Taiwan is a bit dirtier than japan. must be the pollution.