My First New Year's as a Minority

This New Year's was particularly memorable! Let me give you an overview:

1. An AMAZING dinner of pineapple shrimp, cashew chicken, spicy tofu, sweet and sour pork, spicy eggplant, rice, Taiwan Beer, and tea with Katrina, Lawrence, Kuya, and Claire.


Claire & Kuya


Lawrence

2. An enjoyable (if brief) visit to the Ngo's, including new friends, Balderdash, strawberries and cream, Kenyan coffee, and part of a movie about a cheetah in South Africa.

3. Tiger City, the Times Square of Taichung, for the countdown with Taiwanese pop stars and the tightest crowd I've ever experienced in my life (kinda fun!).


Lawrence, Claire, Kuya, Katrina, Paul

4. Hot chocolate in the mountains, looking west across the plain of Taichung, with lights as far as the eye can see. Beautiful in a very different sort of way than my house, Houghton, or Masumbo. A sidenote, the hot chocolate at this bus turned coffeebar was more like unsweetened black tea with cocoa dumped in...next time I might try expresso. :-)


The coffeebar


Seating area overlooking Taichung

It was interesting (though strangely not uncomfortable at all) to spend the entire evening as part of the vast minority of non-Asians amongst tens of thousands of people!