Oct 28, 2011 - Happy Birthday School

Today was my schools birthday!! And in Taiwan... any birthday is a VERY big deal. The whole day consisted of the students performing, BBQ-ing, and each class made an item (like tea, moon cakes, etc.) that they sold to other classes. Since the other exchange student and I didn't find out about this fantastic day of school till about 2 days before... we didn't perform but instead gave a big speech in front of everyone! A lot of people afterwards told me they recorded it so I could "Show to my mommy!!!" haha. They also set up many games like...

Oct 11, 2011 - chinese class

iv had chinese classes for a few weeks now, and now iv started having classes with my host mom. To improve my pathetic excuse for knowing chinese she decided we should start working together every day i don't have chinese class. I have no problem with that I'm really grateful for the extra help, but what was originally was going to be 10min every day has turn into 1-2hours depending on how much time we have. I always feel like a rung sponge after that long its just repeating things until i don't even know what I'm talking about.I'm starting...

Oct 6, 2011 - swimming

we went swimming today for gym class. which might not be so weird except for the fact that pools were are not really anything like the ones back home.Sure there are your basic lap pools, but then there are their pools were people stand under there water jet with the power of a fire hoses. Its supposed to help the blood circulate better or something i think. then there are the temperature pools some are freezing or barely above, some are red and burning hot. those two are for booth men and women, then there are these things like hot tubs one...

Oct 3, 2011 - crazy!

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! ok now that i have that out of my system. Things have been so hectic, thing keep getting busier and busier. Every weekend in off to a different corner of this country. school is really good my classes are really fun and people are still nice (and weird) but nice. last weekend i got sun burn, this weekend rotary took me to a BBQ where there were some really funny drunk guys., nd this weekend I'm going to hang out with some guy from rotary and go shopping in the city. Tomorrow i...

Sep 27, 2011 - My Mom would be proud, I made my own Lunch!

A typical lunch at our school is very different from America. NO ONE brings there own lunch but instead we have 5 big bins of fresh food that we all go through with our trays and then return to our seats in the classroom, but today was different :) The day started off with the students getting their blood drawn (I'm not sure why... ha but they said we didn't have to because most foreigners think the Taiwanese are bad with needles...) and when the students returned we all went to Chinese culinary class, where they informed us that we would...

Sep 26, 2011 - Distributer of Pain

Today as Sierra and I walked into hair class, we were not prepared for what we were about to get ourselves into... and if we would have know... I think we would have run out of the class as fast as we could. ha A typical day in hair class consists of a bunch of maniquien heads out on the tables and students surrounding them; however, today was different. When we walked into the classrom there were no heads on the tables and the students sat in seats with a single towel sitting next to them. So we sat down next to everyone and waited to see...

Sep 23, 2011 - The FOOD of Taiwan

This is a list composed of all the crazy, interesting, different, unique, and traditional Taiwan foods I have tried... so far ha: (Some of these foods are VERY good, and other's haha well.. yea) 1. pig intestines 2. cow intestines 3. frog/frog legs 4. jellyfish 5. pig's blood 6. cow stomach 7. shrimp eggs 8. spicy jelly 9. Hakka tea (aborigional drink composed of 23 different nuts!) 10. chicken feet 11. bubble Milk Tea (taiwanese tea, milk, and tapioca balls) 12. oyster omelete (covered in a traditional ketchup/ sweet&sour like sauce) 13....

Sep 15, 2011 - Akward in All Languages

Today I have learned the valuable lesson of being prepared for anything... even when you think you've already suffered through it once and would never have to go through it again... haha It all started this morning when our baking class was running behind so instead of cooking up some delicious sweet rolls we had to stay in the classroom with the other students for a period. The teacher walked into the room, plugged in her computer to the projector, and we all sat there quietly in the dark until a movie came on. It was all in English and...

Sep 12, 2011 - this weekend

the roads. The first full day i was here in taiwan we were comeing back to the house we were speeding down the road and i thought it was a one way road but then a car came down in the other derection i asked it it was a one way raod and everyone just laughed. It turnes out that if theres no one in the other lane its fine to just drive in that lane untill a car comes..

Sep 8, 2011 - roads

the roads. The first full day i was here in taiwan we were comeing back to the house we were speeding down the road and i thought it was a one way road but then a car came down in the other derection i asked it it was a one way raod and everyone just laughed. It turnes out that if theres no one in the other lane its fine to just drive in that lane untill a car comes.

Sep 7, 2011 - A Slice of Heaven

Yesterday Sierra (the other foreign exchange student) and I got the surprise of our lives whetutorttransferredsfered us into our first baking class. As we walked into the kitchen a sweet aroma of baked filled filld my nose and my mouth started to water more then a leaking dam. They brought us to the front of the classroom and all the students dropped what they were doing to crowd around us. The teacher started putting ingredients in our hexplainingliainChinesehinese, what to do with them. Now, I am not a good cook... to say the least......

Sep 7, 2011 - exchang students

So this weekend i got to meat all the other exchange students, and they are all totally awesome. We meat at this big hotel for district 3500 orientation.we sat through bunch of presentations that were well, interesting and some more awkward then others. After We had dinner that night we had a dance with was really fun, I also got to try this thing called fire spinning. Which is this thing when you have a rope with fire on reach end (or in our case bottles with glow sticks in each one).Everyone in our group are awesome there so nice. We have...