The Sparks Nightclub - Downtown Taipei

Dressed and ready for a night on the town. From left: Tatjana (I've been spelling it wrong this whole time), Marie, Daria, Angelina, and Claudia. Our common room isn't exactly the nicest background...


At around 11pm we met up with about 20 others at the fountain on campus (our typical meeting place) to catch the bus to downtown.


We made a last minute decision to go to The Sparks instead of Luxy because they were having ladies night all you can drink for 300NTD's (approximately $10CDN). This is when we first arrived. I was shocked to see how similar the club was to clubs in Canada.


Tatjana and I - she's such great fun!


A nice picture of the guys. The boys paid 450 NTD's to get in and they got two free drinks inside.


Group shot.


This was the washroom. There were quite a few Taiwanese girls throwing up in the sink...can't hold the alcohol.


I accidentally snapped this shot of the bar tender. They were really nice and all of them had fancy sparkle make-up on their faces that shone in the lights- very beautiful. They were serving only vodka mixed with orangina for the girls. You had to keep your glass and hand it back to the bar tenders every time you wanted a new drink. To purchase a drink was about the same as you would pay in Canada, maybe even a little more expensive.


Smoking is not prohibited in the bars here but very few Taiwanese people smoke so the air wasn't too bad. I think the exchange students were the ones smoking the most.

Our small blonde friend Leslie met a very prestigious Taiwanese man who gave her loads of cigars to pass around out group. We were all up on stage in front of the DJ booth dancing for the crowd. They all loved us - watching us dance and sing along to the North American music.

It was really funny because all of the Taiwanese girls were hitting on the exchange boys, being very forceful and trying to get them to take them home. My buddy told me on the first day that most girls who go to clubs are looking for one night stands but I didn't believe her. The guys didn't mind. I think they enjoyed playing hard to get for a change.


This is the view from up on stage - what a great club.

We danced and drank until 4am when it closed and then took a taxi back to Chengchi. A few of us were still having a good time so we bought a few beers from the 7-11 and sat on a patio on campus until the sun came up. Two of the guys - Pim and Michael left the patio around 7:00am and on their way back to their dorm joined a Tai Chi class that was happening on the soccer field - I think they were still a bit drunk. The rest of us went for breakfast and then went to bed for the rest of the day. What a great night.