In the morning, I visited the Science Museum. The focus was on the history and science of semiconductors. Several guides showed me the interactive parts of the exhibition, some of them fun or interesting, some more time-consuming than effective. The biggest challenge for me, however, was the constant jumble of sounds meant to illustrate modernity (?).
I then went to “Louisa Coffee,” where I had spent time during Amy’s workdays on my laptop in 2019. I was confused because it didn’t look at all like in my memories, but later Amy told me there were several “Louisas”. That afternoon, we picked up Lien from the school bus stop, and when I tried to find “my” Louisa on maps, I saw that she would have been only 30 meters away, obscured only by a wall ledge and some bushes.
Amy, Lien, and I had dinner at a sushi restaurant, where Lien was able to demonstrate how much sushi can fit into a young, active body—she had more than I did. Okay, so, as a fan of Carrie’s baking creations, I had my last two cakes for this Taiwan visit (which, as mentioned, will be my last, barring any unexpected developments).
The evening was digital:
Lien watched a Japanese cartoon, Amy and Neil struggled with setting up Revolut (failed) and Wise (success), and I had to reschedule the tour with Han from Fuzhou to Beijing because her professor had announced a short term pre-thesis presentation. I had been looking forward to long evenings, talking about various things we’d been putting off, and now also Shanghai, including the Zotter Chocolate Theater, would be a solo trip for me. (I’m not sure I’ll go to the Shanghai Marriage Market in People’s Park alone.)
So I booked the hotels and trains for Fuzhou – Hangzhou – Shanghai – Beijing and was finished roughly at the same time as Amy and Neil with their account challenge.
