TPE

So I made it safe and sound to Taiwan after a really, really long flight. Turns out that 14 hours on a plane isn't so bad if your mom moved you to the emergency exit row and you have a bottle of ibuprofen pm in your backpack. I slept a lot, listened to music, did some thinking, and witnessed an interesting medical emergency (don't worry, the lady is fine now, I think it was just exasperated motion sickness although they never told us). The emotional roller coaster continues, leaving me with tears in my eyes accompanied by surges of adrenaline that when combined, have done all they can to make my body even more confused about this experience than my mind. Being in the Taipei airport is my first experience spending a night is Asia, and I have spent it "sleeping" on a couch in the terminal. Although not as exciting as I had hoped, the journey has only just begun.
And, even though they are not paying me, I would like to shout out to the geniuses who created whatsapp and viber (the apps) because they have made communication with family and friends so much easier than it would have been. Thanks y'all!
Over and out.