My roommate Jocelyn and I got assigned to the ninth floor of the Cheng-Yeh Dormitory.  The building is co-ed as a whole but there are separate towers for boys and girls.  We are not allowed to go up the tower of the opposite gender, and there’s a security guard watching the elevators to make sure no one cheats.

Destiny brought us together ❤

Jocelyn majors in Engineering at Colorado State University.  I missed having a roommate!  (I’ve been living in a single ever since I became a Resident Assistant last year).  Our room is huge!

We have a giant double desk.

We have beds.

This is mine.

Look closely and you can tell that it has a wooden base.  I actually prefer sleeping on a hard bed, so it’s been a good change.  Especially for my posture.  I just have to remember that I can’t jump into it like the spring mattress beds at home.  I made that mistake on the first day.. hasn’t happened since.  Instead of spring mattresses, we were provided with bamboo pads.  They have a bamboo backing and a thick layer of foam.

We have a shower.

And a toilet.

And closet space.

And a sink.  With lots of cabinet space.  (The shower is around that corner, just to give you some context as to the size of our room.)

We also have a balcony.  God, we are lucky.  Say hello to beautiful Tainan.

And we have a refrigerator.  And airconditioning.  But we only turn on the air conditioning when we’re in the room.  Compared to the doubles American universities get away with, this is a hotel, a luxury.