Blogs from Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Asia - page 10

instead I was a Mummy with an actual head wrap for Halloween. This past week in school we were finishing up the English Song Contest preperation with the kids, perfecting their speaking with words and their dance moves to the songs. Friday was the big day of perfomance along with the Halloween "Party" (Celebration).....first my school had me decorate a "ghost house" out of a tent, now the materials over here are limited so it was semi hard to create something so "scary" but we made it work....second i was to play a witch and lead the kids in a song and vocabulary about Halloween, well everything had been so up in the air all week, I nor really, anyone else, new exactly what to do, so we winged it and did just fine....having the ... read more

ughhhhhhhhhhhhh i so couldn't sleep last night because as I was peacefully watching something on the TV i looked over and noticed this thing.....crawling down my chest dresser-------and by thing I MEAN A ROACH and it was HUGE and brown and its SICK antennas were flopping around AND UGHHHHHHHHHH i wanted to scream, but i stood up....caught a couple of breaths, got my shoe, and whacked it! and now he/she is dead in the trash and I am pissed at it still because the ROACH caused me to loose sleep, which caused me to wake up later than usual, which lead me to struggle to getting around today, which caused me to yawn all day, which caused me to be more tired than usual....though having my kids laugh and sing and try to dance all day ... read more

Thursday I headed to join my friends for a fun intertaining bbq weekend up north in Miaoli. Jason, Holly, and I got in Thursday night and joined Mike in his lovely town! We ate some dinner, checked out a local bar, and hung out with another foreigner named Paul. Friday Rachel and Muoy joined us. We headed to Carrefour later that afternoon to buy some groceries for the BBQ. We didn't know it would be total made ciaos. My god-it was like a kid in a candy store after an annoucement "EVERYTHING MUST GO! ALL CANDY $.01" It was nuts. After Holly and I picked some pretty delicious marinated meat and fresh veggies, Jason getting squid on a stick and Mike searching for seasoning and our cart filled with a case of Taiwan beer, we ... read more

OOOO how I enjoyed the news from the Governement of Taiwan today that our Moon Festival Holiday will now be a 5 day weekend---yes that is right! So now instead of having Friday and Tuesday off, now we get Monday--WONDERFUL!!! Bummer is we might have to work on that following Saturday :(....That's the price you have to pay when you want to enjoy time with your wonderful friends!!! Can't wait for BBQ, Pijio, "Sexy Back," Photos, and much much more..... My kids are pretty much amazing..Thursday was teachers day and I got an amazing sunflower a mug and 500NT to spend from the school and the Fonshan government and awesome pictures and cards from my students....so good to be a teacher here!! I also used my classroom for the first time this week, fully decorated--my ... read more

I have now had some pretty weird encounters with the stray dogs of Taiwan! The other night as I was scooting out my gates of my peaceful Villa and as I was going around the corner - passing a grassy knoll area, I was chased down by a pack of stray dogs. Now you may think these were large fearstly beasts, but NO, they were small little punks---who SCARED the crap out of me---"bark bark, run run, snarl snarl' the image plays over in my head everytime i turn that corner....I have learned to lay on the horn-sending out a warning to them that I will be coming around the corner--this time no stopping--they will be hurt!!!!!! The next morning on my way to school I was at a stop light and turned to my ... read more