My story so far

Hey people as you can guess mine and Andy's adventure will be some what similar however i cant say i was worried about the flight, although BA was a good one and i had lots of leg room YAY.
OK heres the low down.
First couple of days we stayed at a friends house near the mountains, it was cold for this time of the year and we had to sleep on the floor(which was ok until the spiders came and eat andy hahah--- kidding he is still alive).
We moved to be near the uni and near civilization but stayed in a hostel which was a nice place but mozzy hell.
Then found a nice apartment which we stayed for 3 days and now we are in our new apartment in a place called Jinmei (which is like being in bamber bridge south of preston).
Ok so most of you want to know if we are happy of crying to our moms every night in a man hugging cuddle????
Answer!! Andy wont let me :)
We are fine and ready to start uni in 2 days YAY. Also i would like to say that we have been eating KFC most of the time only because we have been brain washed by the 24/7 adverts that come on every 60 seconds telling chinese people to eat KFC.
I went to the kingdom hall in Shida which is a chinese cong and they had 21 new aux pioneers this month, this is the cong i will be in for the next 6 months:)
There are lots of japanese and korean bro and sis and too many Yanks lol.
After the meetings on friday we all goto the night market and have shaved ics and bananas(dont ask). Also in the market we found a tea shop that sells meals at $80 which is £1.25 and you get a cup of tea, soup, choice of meat and rice, cabbage and a pancake, how awesome is that:).
Any way though you may want to read from me as i have not wrote anything in a while.
Hope all doing well and i miss everyone
Steve

Story so far

I appologise in advance if I rant a little ,not really used to this sort of thing.(day 1,fake geordie accent) set off from heathrow about 10 pm , after playing endless games of 20 questions on the way ,somehow proving im slightly psychic.anyway flight was about 12 hours to hong kong then a short blast over to taiwan.can't say I enjoyed my first experience of flying ,was somewhat obsessed with the amount of air between me and the ground !Arrived in taipei 1am local time ,got a lift to our digs which were on the edge of the city near the mountains ,it was unusually cold ,which annoyed steve but made me smile.Slept much of day 3 feeling emotional and homesick.We were staying with 2 brothers 1 chinese who spoke no english and a spanish bro who is fluent in english and mandarin (boo hiss)day 4 ,decided we needed to get something done so went searching for a hostel ,because we were too far away from uni ,got a mrt card which allows you to travel the metro ,and eventually found a hostel which overlooks the main train station and taipei 101 (tallest building in the world)was abeautifull sunny day ,20c ,taipei is a great city with a diverse archetecture .Today enrolled at uni which starts on 3rd march ,only gonna be in a beginners class cause of lack of experience with characters.also looked at an appartment which is only 2 stops from uni .first impressons are ,completely different culture ,very youth oriented ,fashion consious but polite .everyone has scooters and rides like manics .thats about it sorry for boring you promise to get some pictures for next update -andre

Visas

Hey andys visa came back yesterday and mine has arrived at home today. YAY.

I have almost finished work in liverpool i have tomorrow to go.

What i am going to do is write in a notebook when i arive in london heathrow and stop when i reach taipei. In the notebook i am going to comment on all the things that have happened, the good, the bad and the not so uggly:)

P.S i have found another pic of the plane we will be on (i will take some pics of my own).

Enjoy

Everything done

Both I and Andy have sent our visas, i have applied for international Driving Licence and Jabs are all done:)
So thats it huh i guess just wait to go.
This Blog is going to be packed full of our adventures and pics YAY.
Will update when we get our Visas and passports back.
Laters

Money Money Money

Hey Hey

I know its been a couple days since the last update, this is due to me being ill.....Man Flu.... anyhoo, i have money ...yay.... its only 10,000 TWD but hey thats enough for a nice hotel and some beautiful Chow Mein mmmmm. Andy and i will have to send our Visas off in Jan and we prob should think about what to pack. BA only allow 1 bag....yes i said 1 bag... i hear you saying "This is an outrage". This is something todo with BA reg for people leaving london to anywhere other than South america(Richard and sarah) they can take 2 bags...Lucky!!!
Anyways i cant complain i took to much last time anyways.
Comments Welcome!!!

Sardins

Hey this a pic of what we might have to suffer on the BA flight.

21 hrs to Hong Kong Fun Fun Fun

Almost time

Almost time to go, 2 months and we are there baby.
We have our Air tickets and our letter from the Uni accepting us (hahahaha The Fools)
We only need our Visas now.
Oh and Andy needs a big bad needle to give him germs so the germs in taipei cant hurt him LOL.