ALL FOR SOME SWEET AS SUGAR WOODEN HAND PAINTED/HAND CRAFTED umbrellas, mobiles, and laterns I just want you all to know that I rolled with the big dogs this weekend and me and the green goblin, with Holly backside, traveled to Meinong, the Hakku town to get some sweet sweet souveniers. and i cant wait to show them off. it was a pretty interesting, cold ride. But I made it, and it was worth the trip. Even the wild monkeys were pretty cool, didnt have to pay money to see these ones in a Zoo!!!! We also saw some beautiful [View Full Entry]

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As I start off my holiday adventures, I would like all those who are not able to joing me on them, know that you are truly missed and that it is ok to get severly jelous of the things that I will describe and show to you....:) This past weekend Rach, Jas, and I headed down further in the dirty south of Taiwan to Kenting....it was BEAUTIFUL!!! We arrived Friday night, after much anticipation and a not so bad 80 min bus ride. We were dropped off on the side of the street, where there were lots and lots of [View Full Entry]

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has officially hit! And I have learned a few things.........so here it goes: ("you"--- most times meaning, I- ha) - the locals will always pick their nose and burp w/o saying excuse me or cover it up some way - when you, as a foreigner, at least try and speak some sort of chinenglish, the locals have a little more respect for you - i have dominated my favorite foods and drinks and quotes in chinese--here are a few: -wo yao ebay pijio - wo yao neu ro mein -wo yao lu cha ban tang -wo buchido [View Full Entry]

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ok-honestly speaking-my lazy, spoiled week! So yeah, this past week, like a week ago....I spent most of my time in the office...recouperating. if you want to even call it that. basically I was totally out of it, from my meds. so I had no clue what was going on half of the time. but i wanted to be at school so i didnt get to depressed be alone at home by myself....so i got to sleep and surf the net...all week---but i did get some planning done which was nice--i needed it!!! I had to get my head medicine changed [View Full Entry]

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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 [View Full Entry]

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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 [View Full Entry]

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because I live in a big city I have sweet night markets, department stores, food, clubs, bars and the list goes on....though you would think I would have some pretty cool foreigners here, haha I have yet too name TWO, my friends still want to come my way when they are tired of their small towns (not to mention names, there will be a day when Muoy, Mike, and Jas get really really really really lonely and bored and can't resist the dirty south--anna too but her excuse is better-she is on the other side of the island)!!! Though when [View Full Entry]

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people go WHACK and it's all about competition! This past week Judy Jeffery (Iowa Dept. of Education Director) came to visit Paul and I and meet with the MOE people, with the discussion of possibly having an exchange program for Taiwan teachers to come to Iowa. I don't know if they will be teaching English or Chinese, I think Chinese would be more beneficial, beacause we really have NO ONE to teach that language, and with the ever expansion of the Asian headed over to North America, it would be something to highly consider. My co-teacher and I joined Paul [View Full Entry]

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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. [View Full Entry]

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Holly came to visit this weekend taking the midnight train down south on a spur of the moment-it was worth it. We got to see a police raid---yes yes....I have never heard of such thing, especially over seas!!! Basically we were dancing and all of the suddent the music shut off, lights turned on, and EVERYONE cleared the dance floor like a bunch of mice running from cats. We had no clue what was going on until about 20, not exaggerating, police stormed in. Now maybe they were looking for a certain individual, but we were so confused why there [View Full Entry]

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