im just new here, im just flattered when suddenly a guy/girl here in taiwan approach me even i don’t know how to speak their language.
tell your experiences you have encountered whether a new found friend/strangers/not totally friends but acquaintances only just for once.
I was sitting next to an attractive girl in the MRT (subway) a few months back when I got a text message on my mobile phone. The text message was in Chinese and there were a few characters I couldn’t quite understand. I asked her about them and she was happy to explain them. Then we got into a pleasant conversation for the rest of the ride. She was on her way to a job interview.
I was on the bus holding my bus book during rush hour, going to work. This was a few years ago.
A young guy comes on the bus and sits down next to me and starts conversation in English and helps me out with where I’m going. Nice guy, and right away I knew not my type, but we could be friends. We exchange numbers, as he was from the same city I was from.
Ended up he brought me to a bunch of Amway events 
but they were actually pretty fun and I was never pressured to buy anything, though I did buy some stuff. Took me to meet his friends as well, and we all had dinner a few times. He and his friends (male and female) were actually friendly and nice. Not cult-ish, but hey, they could all be good actors.
I’ve generally had really good luck in meeting people. Remember strangers are just friends you haven’t met yet.
that’s what my Taiwanese girlfriend complained about recently. She meets strangers and they have a pleasant conversation, exchange numbers, maybe have lunch a couple days later, all seems perfect and she thinks she found a new friend but then they keep calling her if she would like to meet them to go to a herbal life or Amway session. It’s a bit sad, cause she is new in Taichung and it seems hard to find real friends cause everybody is so money-fixed (they do get money if u buy something).
But for the experience, I went once (a couple years back) to Hsinchu and I didn’t know where to go and a teenager showed me a bus and we drove together an hour or so into the mountains where he lived and it was really interesting even he didn’t speak English at all. I had a nice day and free food from a restaurant there cause the owners daughter was married to a German and they are sooo nice (the Germans) 
I met a nice woman waiting for the MRT once, she said I must be very smart having my Chinese dictionary out at the time. She jumped on the MRT sat down beside me and proceeded to inform me she wanted a genius mixed baby and could we get started now. I waited for my stop and made a sudden break for it and kept running up the stairs only to find somebody tugging on my sweater 
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Keep away from the Amway/Herbalife money suckers!
Can someone explain who the amway/herbal life people are?
Amway is basically a pyramid system (but they keep denying it) Have a look at the Wiki page; en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amway
I met a lady today, well she stopped me on my bicycle and asked me if I knew the road and if it was safe to run on. Very pleasant conversation. People are keen to talk, you get the English practice in. I don’t mind, sometimes it’s interesting and you learn something.
amway/ herbal life back in my home country was too many of them givings sessions. its like buying a product from them like a self portray distributor. anyway thanks for posting your experiences here on my post. greatly appreciated.
:bravo:
just want to eagerly learn chinese as much as possible. 
Came across this amway/herbal thing last week. The woman I know was trying to get me involved (not a chance).
She had to pay 18,000 to get started and she spends about 2500 a month buying things (she claims she would have bought at say welcome).
She has her two 20 something kids doing it too. She claims she is making money from it.
I told her to buy gold when it was $700(US) and she wouldn’t listen.
I was sitting on a bench just outside of the main entrance of the Taoyuan train station back in 1985, waiting for a friend, just sort of minding my own business and absorbed in my own thoughts. A girl I was living with at the time had taught me to say, 對不起, 我在想事情… in order to deal with the aggressively and obliviously friendly. And I was trying to be by myself and with my own thoughts then. But, still, it was difficult to not notice the only guy around dressed even more raggedly than me, down on the ground on his hands and knees, with his head lower than his butt… like a puppy inviting play… I noticed that he was pushing a small transistor radio across the floor and cheering happily but quietly to himself when the radio stopped at some point not too far from where he had pushed it and he would scoot over to push it again, in a different direction. This went on for a while until the guy noticed me, sitting there on the bench, being so obviously foreign. He stopped when he saw me and locked his gaze on me, like a deer caught in the headlights of a car, except that he was grinning wildly and his eyes were glazed over, darting side-to-side and back to me, and sparkling. There were lots of other people sitting on the benches there, too, but, he seemed only to have eyes for me, and none of those other folks seemed to be noticing the vision dance taking place between he and me, like taiqi, with me trying to visually push him away, and I wished really hard that this dance wasn’t happening. But, he suddenly broke from his momentary paralysis and started scooting far too excitedly toward me, and I groaned silently as he pulled from his pocket a clear plastic bag filled with yellow glue, which he quickly opened and held close to his face and inhaled deeply and apparently with great satisfaction, without breaking scoot… We didn’t become friends, though, as I got up and walked the fuck away. As I crossed the street moving purposely away from the train station, a young high school girl stopped me to ask if I knew Michael Jackson.