My first day researching in the National Taiwan University Library! I headed out early and caught the Gongguan area in the midst of waking up. I absolutely love those morning hours when everything is suffused with a kind of ecstatic bustling energy!

...but people are definitely out and about! Check out how many bikes are already stored on the racks!
I made a pit-stop at the local 85 Degrees which was quite tasty and broke my fast on a bench near the NTU library.

Breakfast of champions! Taiwan's 85 degrees has pastries stuffed with more cheese, more filling...The coffee tastes about the same though ;)
A little about being a visitor at the library: They seem to be pretty stringent about who can enter. As long as you are a student you can enter–provided you have some kind of valid school identification. However, they also seemed to need a passport for non-Taiwan citizens. As much as I hate walking around with official documents tucked in my purse…I guess anything to make school administration happy!