Archive for July, 2009

Lily

One of my closest friends, Lily, came and visited me in Taipei! She was on a trip with her parents to China, and they decided to stop in Taiwan to visit for a bit. She also brought me my bridesmaid dress. Nothing like a hand-delivered satin gown across the world to say true friendship. We didn’t [ READ MORE ]

Pandas!

  • July 22nd, 2009
  • Posted in tourist

During the summer, I’ve been teaching a few high school kids who are home on vacation from Canada. They need extra English help, so they’re taking morning classes with me and another teacher to work on reading comprehension, writing, speaking, etc. On Tuesdays, we get to take them on field trips because the new Neihu-Muzha [ READ MORE ]

Beauty, Unquestionably, is Pain

  • July 22nd, 2009
  • Posted in beauty

First in the news, I got my ears pierced. Again. A coworker of mine wanted a buddy so I made the spontaneous decision, “Sure, why not?”. And so we went during our lunch break to this cute little shop in an alley by school. It was only $100NT ($3USD), earrings included, and very sanitary and [ READ MORE ]

Dead Friday

Got home at 12:40am from poker last night. Finally crashed into bed at 1am. Got woken up by the neighbor’s f-ing bird at 5am. Barely slept for the next 3 hours. Alarm went off at 8am. Finally dragged myself out of bed at 8:15am. Got dressed and out the door by 8:30am. At work by 9am with [ READ MORE ]

Girls Make the World Go Round

I spent the weekend making new girl friends. Don’t act so surprised. I’m fully capable of making girl friends too. It’s just harder here with the language barriers and the cultural differences. And most of the English teachers here are males, if you haven’t noticed. Friday night, I met up with fellow blogger, Serena. She was [ READ MORE ]