Archive for the ‘ Jennifer ’ Category

A Series of Unfortunate Events

I was just washing the frying pan because I cooked dinner tonight. It was even my first time cooking seafood: clams with basil and red chili peppers, and it was delicious. Unfortunately, I sliced my pinky finger on the apparently razor-sharp edge of the pan. During tutoring today, I had a sudden craving for Taco [ READ MORE ]

Short Week

Jen & I have been watching Amazing Race Asia, and they’re doing an episode in Taipei. One of the tasks the contestants have to do is eat a giant bowl of stinky tofu, and they had a very hard time keeping it down. Jen & I did that sometime last week, eating stinky tofu that [ READ MORE ]

Weekend-ish

Saturdays are tough. I woke up at 8am this morning to be at work to teach my junior high class of three girls from 10am-12pm. And then I had to kill an hour before my next tutoring shift from 1:30-3:30pm. I got home around 4:30 and took a nap. I’m working 8-5 on a Saturday. [ READ MORE ]

9/11

It’s strange being in a country where no one is making a tribute to the importance of today. In other news, there is a typhoon coming this weekend. This will be Jen and I’s first typhoon, and we just have to make sure we have enough food for a few days. Typhoon days are like [ READ MORE ]

Two Weeks

We have an apartment! It’s about halfway between Jen’s and my work. It’s also across the street from a Carrefour and a block away from the Living Mall, which has a movie theater too. Prime location, indeed. We’re paying $18000NT a month, not counting utilities, which translates to $575USD a month so that equals about [ READ MORE ]