Where I've Been Livin'

My mom keeps bugging me to show pictures of where I live and everywhere I go on a regular basis. Moms... :) So here you go ::

This is a view of "campus." Really, I'm facing the wrong direction, but I wanted to get the mountains in the picture. (PS - Look! You can see my shadow on the right side of the picture!)


This is the roof that I snuck onto to take that panorama of the campus :


This is the entrance to the campus. That's the Administration Building to the left and the road on the far right leads to the dorms. If taxi drivers are nice, they drive you down that way.


Here is the design building where all of my classes are (Glass, Metal, Pottery, Painting and Studio)


The design building is filled with little pockets of creativity, which is the complete opposite of the white-walled Wallace Center at Auburn. This is the smoke-break garden. I think it's gorgeous.

This is studio where we have...studio, of course. Chinese painting is held in here too.
This is the four trees courtyard. Every time I write "We met at four trees...." this is to where I am referring.


This is where we wait for taxis. It's the stairs in front of the design building / four trees.

This is the American Cafe food place. When all the cafeterias close, this and 711 will be our meal destinations.
This is the library. It's air conditioned! You have to sign in to go inside.


Here is the Administrative Building. Graduation was here. That torturous graduation party was here. We paid our dorm fee here. And Tai Chi class takes place on the 5th floor which has hardly any walls so it's open to sunlight, but shaded!

This is the pretty garden area outside Cafeteria 2. (There is no cafeteria 1 to my knowledge..)

This is the road to take to get to 711.

While on that road to 711, you pass this prison on your left. How nice!

This is the off-campus 711. You can see the tables on the right where we sit and hang out.


They sell very odd food in 711. Steam buns...hotdogs, not so weird. But then there's this metal tub full of hot water and soggy food.


Outside 711, there is a scooter parking lot. I think that a lot of our classmates park here instead of parking on campus.


This is one of the parking lots on campus. There's grass in it.


Across from the design building, there is a big lake surrounded by grass. It's nice.


Down this road you find the on-campus 711 and cafeteria 2 on the right. (The left is the American-type cafe)


This is the giant hill on the way to studio that will tone my butt by the time I come home.

This is my dorm building. I'm on that second floor.

This is the "common room" in my dorm....sector, if you will. There's three rooms in each sector. The one not pictured here has a sign that reads "The sex at the house." ....... ...

My door! And a red chair!

This is the view from the doorway. There's five girls in this room.

This is the view from that really bright window in the last picture. The fan pictured here runs all the time, thank god. The A/C only runs from 7:30 PM to 7:30 AM and it's not automatic so we kind of have to eye our roommates and then turn it on when we think it's ok. They're not used to AC all the time and they get cold.

This is my desk space. DESK B!

This is my bed and my closet. My bed is the odd one out because it doesn't have a desk underneath it. Therefore, there's a big pile of my shared/cleaning stuff there.

The tiny bathroom! Woohoo!

To the right in the bathroom, there is a room with a toilet.

To the left is the shower. It gets REALLY freaking hot in there. Apparently everyone elses' showers have windows that you can open to cool down, but not ours.

Outside our common room there is recycling along with other disposable waste baskets.

Next to the trash can is our laundry room. You can hand wash or pay 10 NT to wash and 10 NT to dry. Overall that's about 75 cents total to do laundry.

If you don't want to pay to dry you hang your clothes out here on the common room balcony. This is also where everyone smokes. I enjoy when they leave the door open and smoke comes in my room...oh wait, no I don't.

The balcony is also where the kitty lives. :)

This is the view looking out from the balcony dorm. If you look closely, you can see that it's raining in this picture. Super sunny with rain.

This is the lobby in the dorm. In the back of the picture you can see the convenience store.

This is about 1/3 of the juice and tea selection in the store.

They have a little heater full of steamed buns too. (I don't care for them, but everyone else thinks they're yummy)
These are the stairs that lead up to the lobby. You can see Cafeteria 3's doors here.


This is Amigo! When I say I got a bowl of fruit, this is where I got it. They also make fruit drinks on the left side.

This is the cafeteria. It's closed on the weekends...there's usually more people, haha. To the left is where I buy the pineapple fried rice.

To the right is where you can get danbings in the morning and sandwiches at lunch.