Jamie and I were planning to go to dinner afterwards, she was going to meet me at the intersection near the FamilyMart, but our plans changed when they invited us to stay and eat dinner with them. It was a good meal, complete with two renditions of “Happy Birthday” and several questions of “where are you from?” Luckily there was a map and both Kansas City and St. Louis were on it.

So, now the good part. We leave and get ready to head back to campus, only to find out that there’s now three fire trucks in between us and the only way we know how to get back. And they aren’t letting any traffic through. Oops. One girl points to a side street on the right and says we’ll be able to get around by going that way. We try. We fail. Once we circle around again, we stop at the police station to ask directions. After a greeting of Ni Hou (Chinese for Hi, How are you?) followed by a Hello (good sign) we ask how to get back to Dong Hwa University only to get a jumble of words in Chinese (bad sign). He finally finds a store owner across the street who speaks English and basically tells us that there is a way around, but to give up because it’s quite a ways. We went to get ice cream to pass the time and eventually found a side street that could get us around the fire (left is apparently the way to go). The end.

Angela

P.S. Oh, about the title, usually when we go out to eat at a new restaurant with the lab, Betty will start by telling us what’s on the menu and we call that story time.

P.P.S In other exciting news, we’re going to Taroko National Gorge tomorrow and there’s a typhoon coming our way either Monday or Tuesday.