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Well the past two days have been very interesting. Yesterday there was news of a typhoon here in Taiwan and a hurricane in America. A couple of the Rotary students I met at the weekend are from New York, and my friend Nika lives there now to, i hope everyone is all right. The typhoon up here in Xindian was a little disappointing, since it veered off into China before it really reached us up here. But I digress. Yesterday me and my host family did a little ceremony to honor the spirits who's door to the spirit world was closing. They laid out a table that had many different foods and sticks of incense, and burned "clothing" and "money" to give to them. Afterwards we visited my host fathers dad, who lived in the city in an apartment style thing, with four floors! The top floor was just Japanese tea rooms and a rock garden, which was really cool. Today we took care of getting my Alien Residence Certificate, and I went to my first Rotary meeting here in Taiwan. I saw quite a few exchange students today, like Soma from Turkey and Sayo from Japan. I had to introduce myself in front of the Rotary, and i tried to do it in Chinese. I should have stuck with English -.-" There was lots of singing there. It was pretty cool. Most schools start tomorrow, which is funtastic. But i haven't recieved word from my school if mine starts tomorrow too ._. so im not sure if im going, if i am, i hope i dont get lost. :P