Since my last blog we’ve had a very calm day and a very busy day. Sunday was another off day so we mostly relaxed and explored. We got recommended by one of the students here to go to this capybara cafe and they have literaaal capybaras!! Also the best fruit tarts! I got a grape one and it was the perfect combination of fresh fruit and creamy whipped topping. Once we finished eating our fruit tarts and taking photos with the cute (and sometimes feisty) capybaras we took an uber to a nearby street popular for being a food and clothing area. Here, we thrifted for unique items and explored all the shops hidden away in alleys. Me, Sydney, and Pfeifer took the cutest photos at this photo studio shop we came across and got ice cream before eating at a japanese restaurant as we hid from the rain storm. In Taipei, where we were before Tainan, we lucked out with it being sunny for the entire duration of our time there. However, now in Tainan it basically rains every afternoon so make sure to keep our umbrellas on us at all times just in case. When it rains here it rains a lot and picks up quickly. After dinner we left full, happy, and in need of a nap after the long day of walking so we headed back to the hotel to rest. After a few hours, groups of us headed out again to have a quick dinner at the night market before calling it a night.
Monday was our first official day of class in Tainan and I got up early to get ready and enjoy the hotel breakfast which all of us were excited about because it included more Taiwanese food then our last hotel did. In class, we listened to a couple lectures to prepare for our next workshop project. The themes are about Taiwanese culture and sustainability with the U.S. market in mind. After a quick lunch break and trip to the family mart on campus we took taxis down to an indigo dye workshop where we got to dye our own handkerchiefs! Each of us dipped our designs into the bucket of natural dye three times for it to fully absorb the colors. I was so happy to open up my handkerchief and see it have the contrast in color I was hoping for between the white cloth and the deep indigo dye. We celebrated the workshop with the creamy ice cream cubes before touring a temple right next to this workshop. When we ended the workshop we were starving so we asked a student translator for the workshop for a local restaurant recommendation and it was probably one of our favorite meals yet! We feasted again then had ice cream at the very same place the ice cream cubes from earlier were purchased from because they were just that good. Finally, we ended the night shopping at the stores right next to our hotel which included a 7/11, a makeup store, and a two story stationary store that we all spent at least an hour shopping through.
As each day passes I feel more and more grateful to be studying design, to be in Taiwan, and to be with such a great group of people here with the same goals.
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My grape fruit tart with capybaras in the background
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| Petting mr. capybara himself |
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 | Japanese food we devoured
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 | Me and the girlz
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