One Month

Well today marks the end of the first month ive been here. This past month has been soooo amazing .-. im really glad to be here. I've been to so many amazing places (Danshui, Xinbeitou, Gongguan, just taiwan in general) had so many amazing foods (55 cm tall soft serve, Ji Pai, Beef Noodle, and many many more!) and met incredible people (I cant list how many.) This month has been a little tough though, mostly from my language handicap. I havent really missed much (except i have an extreme craving of orange juice for some odd reason) so im not really homesick. Keeping myself busy has really helped a lot. Today i woke up at 6:30 (on a sunday, yes) to go play volleyball with Soma (the hungarian) and his classmates. I about fell asleep on the court :P. Afterwards i wandered around ximen for a while without any plans and found some more exchange students! i ran into Kat (a girl from germany in my district) and John (real name Johannes) from germany in district 5200, and Connie (real name conrad) from hungary and also in 5200. Spent the rest of the day with them until i went to have dinner with my host grandfather (which was soooo tasty. never knew pig liver could taste good!) Saw a polaroid camera today, and got super excited cuz they arent in america anymore. i want one .-. . celebrating an exchange students birthday tomorrow (Allie the Aussie :D) gonna be awesome. Lesson of the day: always eat it. even if its liver.

Been a while

well its been quite a while since ive last posted.for an update: Ive done pretty much nothing special at all. (except plan a beach day that may very well be canceled due to weather complications) What to talk about..... I've aced every english test they've handed me, im proud to say (be pretty bad if i didnt). Chinese school is in full swing, but so far not much new (thanks mom! those two weeks were pretty helpful. thanks for the letter too) I get to do a pretty fascinating dance tomorrow at school

This is about to get fantastic.

MOON FESTIVAL.

Well it's moon festival weekend here in hot sunny taiwan. Filled with games, laughter, and the sounds of drunk asian men singing karaoke! Yesterday there was a rotary exchange student tea party! (which i must point out had no tea at all ._. dissapointment.) basically we divided into teams and played a bunch of games! losers got drawn on with face paint stuff :3 I only got to play three games before i had to leave. One was like a hybrid charades/telephone game, another was blowing flour (?) and the last involded rock paper scissors and water ballons >3 kukuku. That went well. I had to leave with soma and allison to go to a BBQ. It had amazing food, and since we ate too much we walked to a lake (which looked really nice in the moonlight) I juggled Pomelos (and tried to teach soma with them. we destroyed those XD) We also had to sing karaoke. All threee of us sang "in the jungle", then me and soma sang beat it, and i had to sing "what a wonderful world" and "tears in heaven" ._. no bueno. but it was pretty amusing ot see our club president swinging a shirt over his head and dancing to beat it. Today i was going to go to taipei 101 but it was postponed again. So Soma, Alejandro, Claire and I went to gongguan and ximen. We went to a really good korean restaurant in Ximen, and i had found a spanish restaurant it gongguan near the station. We got lots fo free food there cuz of alejandro. Moral of the story. Always go to a spanish restaurant with a spaniard.

Busy @.@

To say the least, the past few days have been busy. Saturday i went to ximen with Elycia and Julie, then on Sunday I went to the zoo. Got another panda hat, this ones a visor. School is pretty boring as usual, but mostly cuz i cant understand anything. Chinese school on monday wasnt much different either, but i could actually understand some of that. Really tired ._.

School Day 2

HOTHOTHOTHOTHOTHOTHOTHOTHOTHOTHOTHOTHOT. Whoever thought sweatpants was a good idea is an idiot @.@ but i look pretty sexy in my bright orange shirt, not gonna lie. Today i didnt get lost (victory!) and school was pretty great as usual. I had to juggle for the Biology teacher though haha. Whenever my classmates want me to juggle now they say "showtime!" XD We had P.E. today, and i played basketball with Shaun (who turns out to be decent at card tricks and singing) and Argus (note: these are self proclaimed english names) Sat with Vivian and other girls today at lunch (with the other two exchange students. Shaun and everyone still got a laugh out of it .-.) Im glad it's the weekend though. Im so tired o.o.

School

First day of school today! Pretty good all around i must say. It was kind of akward at first, cuz i just kinda walked in and took my seat without a uniform and no one knew who i was haha. Then they made me stand up infront of the class and introduce myself. The only problem was the teacher kept asking me questions. In chinese. Laughter was the main sound that came from the students until they finally got a student good at english to come up ._. i was the morning entertainment. Class itself was pretty boring, since i couldnt understand any words at all. During the breaks though it was faaaaaaantastic. really. especially when they found out i could juggle (thank you Dustin) That really got things moving. At our weekly assembly too i found that the guy across the aisle form me in class could be pretty funny when hes not asleep, and Shaun (the guy that was good at english) knows some pretty lame rubber band magic tricks (i have frank to thank for seeing through those) I also got my priso- I mean school uniform! :D My uniform would fit in a rave, no joke. Can't wait for tomorrow :D