catching up....

( Sheck memorial)

Ok so… its been very long…

We have been everywhere…. And I feel like I have to update a little….

Its beeen sooooo long since Jen’s bday that I don’t even know what to write about it! Just that se got beautiful flowers and a cake… we were doing presentation stuff so it wasn’t that much of a party….

Bowling the day after for jen’s birthday was soo much fun… We played pretty well and made like 120 points…. But the most fun part was that Jen and I were “com a macaca” (“with the monkey”: an expression in portuguese for when a person is overly energetic and ends up being annoying by laughing, making noises, dancing etc.)

THE WEEEEKEND!

It was great to get out of the farm area and go see the big city….

Sandy, one of our mandarin teachers, was with us the whole time…. We ended up crashing at her place too after refusing Kevin’s very sweet ofer to stay at his grandma’s.

(Sandy and I at her apt)

Taipei is sweet. We found it more breezy that Taichung, but maybe it was just that Saturday… I was sooo nice out! (nice in Taiwan: gray sky, some rain, non significant presence of the sun, and preferably a lot of wind).

We walked around all day. Shopped a little… there is so much to see and buy that we didn’t really buy much at all….

We were also too tired to go to the night market or clubbing for that matter…. We def need to go back there….

We swung by the Chieng Kai Sheck memorial and the jade market on Sunday before catching the Bus to return to Asia U. GORGEOUS PLACE!

Monday was pretty interesting… We did calligraphy! I learned how to write my name in Chinese… and printed it out on a t-shirt… this was for the high-tech part of the course!

time to run to class.... ill be back later today!

ps: earthquakes come and go really fast!