Bank Accounts and a Photographer in the park

This week, I've done a lot of exploring.  On Monday, I opened up a bank account all by myself.  No help from Jennifer at all, even though they did speak a little English.  I had to open up another account because my school said that I needed to open up a bank account at a certain bank.  Then on Tuesday while I was running, I saw the weirdest thing.  I was running along and I see this guy in a suit and a girl in a bathing suit.  I thought that it was a father taking her daughter to diving practice or swim practice, but still it was a little weird to be seeing a girl in a bathing suit in the park.  But as I got closer, she went back into the car and the guy in the suit was wearing a backwards baseball hat and had a camera around his neck.  Then another girl came out of the car, until then I thought that the girls were young b/c they were short.  But anyways she comes out wearing a regular bathing suit that's got a thong  and is see thru.  Oh and they're standing right by a port-a-potty.  So I'm thinking to myself, this is really weird let's get out of here.  And thats it.  Later that day, I walked wondered around the town and into the Neihu area.  I came across a swimming pool, that will probably let me swim in.  I also came across a bike shop.  I looked at some really sweet bikes.  One weighed only 7kg!!  But it turned out to be way out of my budget, $138,000NT or over $4,000!  The area is really nice too!  The apartments looked to be really expensive too.  After work today, I went to the American Institute (the closest thing the US has to an embassy) where I added more visa pages to my passport b/c I did not have a full empty page left.  I was rather happy with myself for being able to get there on my own, I mean if I had to use the bus and the metro it wouldn't have been anything special, but I had to use the taxi.  I tried giving the name of the metro station which is Zhong Shan Junior Highschool, but I don't know how to say Junior Highschool.  Luckily, I wrote down the name of the metro stop on a piece of paper in Chinese characters and he was able to get me there.  I did have some difficulty in finding the American Institute because they go by sections in the address system here.  So I ended up walking a whole section out of the way.  But I realized what I did wrong and quickly went on the right path.  On my way back home, I was going to try to walk from the metro station back to the apartment, but people are not allowed to walk through the tunnel that goes underneath the river.  I quickly caught a cab and told him in Chinese what road I wanted to go to.  Everything went well.  This weekend, Jennifer and I are planning on going to Tainan for the weekend to see her father.  We will be taking the High Speed Train, I am excited!