Xizhi - I have moved out of the hostel because it was fully booked, and I was only able to stay there until end of June. I have moved in to my colleague, Chia-Ling's apartment. I moved into her empty room which her grandma would stay while she is visiting. Chia-Ling stayed in Xizhi, which is in the New Taipei district. Xizhi in Mandarin means "end of tides". What happen was in the past, Taipei would always get floods due to it being surrounded by the Keelung river, and the flood would stop at Xizhi, thus that's how it gets its name. Nowadays, after the improvement in the drainage system, floods rarely happen anymore.
Xizhi is a very busy place, lots of shops, lots of food, lots of people. The apartment is just like any apartments in a small city - pretty small, but in the case of Chia-Ling's apartment, I would consider it relatively big, with two rooms, a kitchen and a lounge. It is warm because there is no wind moving through the apartment. Her apartment is located in a building which is sandwiched between two taller buildings, thus she doesn't get much wind blowing through her place. There is really nothing much to take in her apartment, so the pictures are shops around her place.
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