Gambling

whats up? im not doing too much today. in taichung, there are two museums here. one if for science and the other is for art. well, the staff at the science museum wants to meet me today and i guess show me around and go out to eat with me. seems pretty cool i guess.

anyways, i think there are so many topics i can talk about in taiwan that is different from the u.s. i thought today i would talk a little bit about gambling. just recently, taiwan is letting the people here bet on american sports like basketball and stuff. its pretty cool i guess, i dont know how to do it or anything but it seems cool. so that is one way you can gamble. if you really want to gamble in a casino like with what we are use to. i am pretty sure there isnt a place like that here, you would have to go to macao. its like 2 hours away. pretty cool, lots of people here go there for the weekend and stuff. kind of like las vegas if you lived in california or something.

what they have here from what i can tell is three things...one is....everytime you buy something. no matter what it is, you get a receipt right? well on every single receipt there is lottery numbers, and i think every other month they pick a winner. pretty cool i guess. although, i have heard that no one hardly wins.

the second way of gambling here is there is a lottery that you can buy. like with the powerpall and stuff in tennessee. but there is a catch....its 6 number i think. well, its 1 more than what we have and i think we have 5. there are a lot of people that live in the u.s. and not as much as in taiwan, i dont really know why they need to have 6 numbers. it seems like that is impossible to win.

ok and the last thing is there are video gambling things here. theres actuall a lot of places where people can do this. i have never been though. from what everyone has told me. these places are for "bad guys". so i think only these guys go there. and i heard that there are lots of girls there too that arent really there to serve you drinks. so yea i guess its kind of a sketchy place.

ok well maybe this gambling stuff isnt that interesting but i guess its different from what we are use to. ok i will post again soon.