Today, I went with my friend Heather and we walked all the way up to a stadium in Jilong and hung out there. It was sort of amazing, all sorts of people were gathered there for exercise. So as we walked around the stadium there were people running, playing batminton, tennis, running, playing basketball etc. Afterwards we came back and watched Pirates of the Caribbean.
Taiwanese people seem to use Western holidays as sort of crazy party days. For example, huge numbers of people were outside of the KTVs last night with cases of beer. Several people have observed to me that Christmas and other Western holidays in Taiwan take the outward trappings of these holidays, the consumerism, the Christmas cards and Santa hats, and leave the family stuff for Chinese New Year. The same for New Year, the parties and the fireworks were definitely there. I suppose for most Westerners, New Year isn't really a family holiday, so I suppose it's still in keeping with the spirit of the holiday.
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