Today, after about 5 hours of sleep, we got up and running and headed to see the national palace museum, which holds some of China's best treasures from the civil war. Our English speaking guide took us around on a whirlwind tour of the place and told us a bit about a couple of items in each area.
The most famous items there were this jade sculpture of a cabbage that had 2 insects on it and a little boat carved in ivory. The cabbage quickly became a hot topic of discussion and funny comments since it was so popular that you had to wait to see it for about 15 minutes. I thought the ivory items were very neat though it was sad that the animals were killed for such vain reasons.
The most famous items there were this jade sculpture of a cabbage that had 2 insects on it and a little boat carved in ivory. The cabbage quickly became a hot topic of discussion and funny comments since it was so popular that you had to wait to see it for about 15 minutes. I thought the ivory items were very neat though it was sad that the animals were killed for such vain reasons.
Lunch was a great time to relax since we were all so tired. After the museum, we headed back to Taipei to visit a mall owned by one of our alumni. We got a little tour of some of the shops and learned about her efforts in building up the mall and helping the stores do marketing. The mall was only a basement mall which catered to women. The building also had 140 residential units on the upper floors. I wonder if there were only women that lived there.
Later, for dinner, we hit up the famous night market bazaar where we grabbed different types of food from various street vendors and looked around at all the small stores. It was a bustling and very popular place to visit.
Tonight was supposed to be a karaoke night but the group made a good decision and rescheduled for the next night considering that we were meeting the vice president tomorrow.
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