Archive for October, 2008

Happy Halloween

I finished the entire series of Friends last night. Jud got me the entire set as a graduation gift, and I started from the very beginning about a week before I left for Taiwan. Averaging about 2-3 episodes a day, I watched the series finale last night. It was a bit sad, due to the [ READ MORE ]

Plugs for My Mother

  • October 30th, 2008
  • Posted in family

Here is a fabulous and hilarious new link sent to me by Joanh who runs the amazing site, A Hungry Girl’s Guide to Taipei: My Mom is a Fob Mymomisafob.com is about those Asian mothers…who leave desperate voicemails asking us to “please pick up phone? hello? are you there?”… Started by Serena and Teresa Wu [ READ MORE ]

I’ll Show Them

Fun Fact: All the time here is in military time. Man, I’ll never get away from doing math constantly. My second graders have been getting wilder and wilder. I’ve now employed the counting-to-3 method when they are running around and being wild. I also made everyone copy a story out of their textbook today because [ READ MORE ]

Slow Sunday

A few things to entertain:Facebook in a Crowd 10 Things You Should Never Say to an Asian Woman[ READ MORE ]

Politics and BBQ

We went to the Miniature Art Museum yesterday. On the bus ride there, we see a huge parade, blocking off half of the city, of people carrying banners, flags, and giant protest signs. The flags say, “Yes! Taiwan, No! China” With my super observation skills, I deducted it was a big protest against using products [ READ MORE ]