Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Random: Foreign Exhanged Student's Woes

Namaste Readers,

Taiwanese Roomie C is having the Foreign Exchanged Student's woes.  During the 1st week, he got diarrhea.  Then one day, I encountered him walking towards the Seven-Eleven (7/11), he was looking for disposable underwear to wear until his freshly washed boxers dried up.  In Taiwan, it was common for 7/11 and other supermarkets to sell both genders' [disposable] underwears not just females'.  Another day, he told me how a taxi driver charged him and his Taiwanese friends more than the counter.  The Taiwanese "Dollar" is almost equivalent to the Philippine Peso ( 1 peso is around 0.70 Taiwan "Dollar" ) thus every peso counts.  I tried to pacify his frustration by pointing out that arguments about money also happened to the locals.

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