Things to do on a Rainy Day in Taipei

When the weather looks like this for more than 24 hours straight…

You should start to get creative.

1. Write a blog post or create a blog. Write about how the weather more often than not sucks in Taiwan.
2. Watch Taiwanese talk shows on TV. There is one on nearly every channel any time of day. Compare. Yep…they’re all the same.
3. Watch the Disney Channel in Chinese for as long as you can until you get annoyed by their high-pitched squeaky voices. Then turn to channel 63 and watch some bad old movies from mainland China, but at least the subtitles are in both Chinese and English.
4. Go to the local wet market and have a truly wet experience. Buy six mangoes for $100NT to brighten up your morning.
5. Buy the strangest thing you can find at the wet market. Bring it home and try to cook something with it.
6. Do your laundry.
7. Research career opportunities and figure out your life after you graduate/stop teaching English.
8. Enjoy a few cookies and chocolates sent from home. Then  when you remember you will be wearing a skimpy bathing suit in a week in a place with much better weather, do a bunch of ab workouts.
9. Review your Chinese textbook and commit a new useful sentence to memory.
10. Write postcards to your friends and family back home.
11. Send e-mails to old professors and employers you haven’t but should’ve kept in touch with all year.
12. Complete a few tutorials online about web page design or other computer skills. Lynda.com is a great resource.
13. Read a book.
14. Ride the MRT to the end of each line. Strike up a conversation with a local. Don’t let them try to speak English.
15. Go to that coffeeshop or restaurant you’ve been meaning to try, but have never gotten around to. Enjoy a meal/coffee *very* slowly.
16. Do something liberating like running around outside naked and say you’re trying to save money and are taking a shower. Expect a lot of photographs. Better yet…maybe do that somewhere where no Taiwanese person can see you unless you want to be the next dinner conversation for some random Taiwanese family.
17. Spring cleaning time! Throw out all those old school materials, ticket stubs, and 7-11 receipts you don’t need anymore.
18. Create your own aboriginal Taiwanese rain dance.
19. Go shopping in Taipei’s underground malls. Make sure to get completely lost at least once.
20. Enjoy some wine and cheese (purchased from a foreign market) with a few good friends.

More ideas always welcome! Hit up the comments! 🙂