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POO-RFIC BIRTHDAY
... the nicest email telling me how happy she was to hear from me and how she would pass my information on. The next thing I know I have an interview, then another interview. Now I am VIETNAM bound for the 2012-2014 school years and I could not be more excited.
My family and friends are wonderful and supportive and genuinely happy for me. I feel like the luckiest girl in the world.
Tonight to celebrate Claire and my birthday we went ...
A Little Bit of Awesomeness
... and re-evaluate my situation, go back to appreciating this wonderful life I am living. Here is what I came up with: I spent yesterday laying in a park listening to live music, being the only foreigner in another world yet feeling totally at home. People smile at me every where I go. I have friends that truly caring about me because I am me. I smile daily. I have a class of 15 amazingly wonderful kids. I tell my kids how awesome they are each day (and ...
Fate and our two new friends in Taichung
... was fabulous, maybe because it was all done through manual filters and the milk for the latte was hand shaken. Who really knows? All I know is that it was good.
Next to the coffee place was a carnival-style game in which the players would throw baseballs at nine different numbers inside a large wooden box. The goal was to knock out the numbers in order to make a row (numbers stacked like phone numbers on the dial). There were about a ...
Majestic Tao Temple
... the leaves
*the first drinkable pot needs to steep for about 30 seconds
* each pot of tea after that only needs about 1 seconds to steep
* can make about 6-8 pots of tea
An interesting thing I witnessed was when the tea was steeping; he would pour hot water on outside of the clay pot as well to quicken the process I guess. Then it is transferred to the pretty tea pot that is used to serve people. There is no need to be careful ...
Teacher Lauren
So Monday I started teaching!!!!! The first day was amazing. I started my day by getting to school at 7:30. I did one hour of prep (which I was paid for:o) Then I went off to teach the first graders in my aquarium at 8:30. I have 16 kids in my class so far and apparently am getting 3 more next week. They are all at varying abilities, but are super cute! I love that they call me Teacher Lauren. I ...


