Driving

This is at a temple, and at first sight maybe you thought this is the symbol the Nazis also used? Well, its not. This is the symbol that is found throughout China and Taiwan and other countries that have Buddhist temples. The Nazis copied it and changed it a little bit, but I am not too sure on the history of them copying the symbol.

Hello,

I guess I have been getting a little lazy with posting. I will try and post more often.

Lately I have been going to school with my dad. He has a lot of classes, so we are busy going to school. I will walk around some of the classes and help his students with their work. He teaches some computer, writing, and speech classes. They students are starting to become more comfortable with me. At first, they were really shy and I think I was too with talking to them. Now they want to do things with me and that kind of stuff. Still today, some of the students are curious about me and will always ask me how old I am. I let them guess first. Every student has guessed between 16-20. No one has guessed that I am 23 yet. Once they figure out I am 23 they are like "Oh, cool!", and then they want to talk to me. Yesterday these girls thought I was 16 and I just said to myself, "Do I really look 16?" I don't think I do.

Today I am going to practice to parallel park. I can't do it. I guess in Knoxville I really never had to learn, but here if you can't parallel park, you shouldn't be driving. Taiwan is really different with driving than America. First of all, people don't drive on the opposite side here like in England. One main reason to why driving is different here than the U.S. is that I feel like there are no rules or respect when people drive. I am really serious. If someone wants to let's say, run a red light? They do it. What if someone is in the wrong lane and wants to go in your lane? They just keep getting closer and closer and closer until they are about 1 inch away from your car so you have to let them in. I haven't seen a policeman give out a ticket for driving yet. I think they are focused on other things. I guess its really hard to explain unless you are here, but just picture Chicago with only 1 driving rule...there are no driving rules! If I had to pick a rule that they follow it would be...I actually couldn't think of one. I tried to but I couldn't. I mean cars even drive in the other lane when there is heavy traffic just to avoid people in their current lane. What I mean is cars even drive in the oncoming traffic lane. Scooters are suppose to have their own lane, but that lane is small and sometimes they don't even have it. That lane is also the area where cars park, so scooters are in your lane all the time.

So anyways, I have seen crazy things while I have been in a car. Of course not every driver is like this, but a lot are. Ok talk to you guys later on.