Adam CP # 7

Today I met with Yen Yin Chen at Atomic Coffee at 5:00. We talked briefly about the university system in the United States and the university system in Taiwan. We agreed that there were a lot of similarities, although he said that student loan debt was not such a problem in Taiwan. He also mentioned that when he was looking into universities in the United States he preferred the ones on the east coast because they used a semester system, instead of the intensive quarter system used by most public universities on the west coast. He mentioned that he was trying to obtain a driver's license in the United States, and I told him about good places to go in Tallahassee that are not in walking distance (but definitely in driving distance) relative to campus. Yen Yin Chen had a free coupon for McDonald's so we went there later before walking to the Askew Student Life Center on campus. We had a conversation about the Chinese Zodiac and the differences between the Chinese and Greek Zodiac, as well as the story of the Chinese Zodiac. We also had a conversation about how identifying a person's personality based on their blood type is very popular in a lot of East Asian countries, and actually pretty similar to the zodiac in terms of how people use it to talk about their personalities.