Howard Lake Resort Shihmen Dam Hotel Taoyuan

... slow without putting your feet down and then pull up to a railroad crossing. I also passed the driving test and got my license!! If you went out of the lines on any part of the driving test a siren would go off and a man would come over the speakers saying "Sorry!" haha Three of us that took the driving test passed! I was pretty excited that it only took me one try to pass everything! <br><br>Wednesday:<br>On Wednesday I had my first meeting of my students' parents. We ...

Back in March I was assigned 'outside Gloria classes'. These are classes that go down either at some business or Junior High School of some sort. I felt pretty honored actually because these kids were supposed to be 'the cream of the crop' and rather advanced in their English ability. Don't get me wrong...sometimes I like the endless games and very basic lingo you get to teach at the kindy (kindergarten) level...but would also like to have a ...

... emit smoke whenever I stopped driving her. I knew that she was pretty much on her last legs, but figured that I would just drive the **** out of her until I needed to buy another scooter. Back last month, RHONDA finally shut down on me. It was a Friday, after work...all I wanted to do was go home and shower after a long day at work. My co-teacher Annie drove me to the nearest mall (Tai Mall) which is where the gym that I frequent is located. I did a ...

... where they came from. Turns out they were both from Montreal. Hmmm, small world. It's strange though...you really don't see many French-Canadians here in Taiwan...mostly the English speaking kind. I suppose it's because the French-speakers don't really qualify to be English teachers. LOL. No offense...Anyway....we chatted and I saw that their food was ready. They got up and were making a bee-line for the exit. I thought 'Man, I need to grow some balls and make use of ...

... could get us in without paying for cover. I worked til 7:40 that Saturday night and came home and showered and started getting ready. Some people had gone into Taipei earlier and scored a hotel room in the same building as the club (holy convenience). I waited around for Meghan to come home. Tom, Alex and (another) Megan also taught late and came in. We headed off together for Taipei. We picked some beers up at 7-Eleven and then boarded the train to Taipei. 40 minutes later ...

... off from the work this past week and a half. Couldn't have happened at a worse time, as home sickness really hit me lately.... to the point I was hating life at times. But anyways, more happy stories to follow. Have to get through my 200+ e-mails now (and that's just from this account... not including my hotmail :) My co-worker ex-pat and myself are taking Mandarin from a tutor. learning the ...

... kept talking. Eric and I entertained ourselves with watching Paradise Kiss and Inuyasha. That evening Peer and David's family took us out for shabu-shabu. We returned to Tucheng very late (10 PM is late when you get up before 7 AM). Nothing else eventful really happened on Wednesday besides the fainting incident. Eric and I watched a Chinese sci-fi action movie called 2002, starring Nicholas Tse (who's so ...

... us that the had been pushed to far along the runway for them to refuel the aircraft using the normal fuel lines, so they had to drive a couple of lorries to us and then fill the plane from them, this took just over an hour. Back off to Hong Kong, landed there and were late getting in due to the storms. Had a quick turnaround and then off home to Heathrow.

I wrote this when I was on the China Airline flight CI003 from SFO-&gt;TPE. As expected, I passed out before the flight left the gate. The only thing I remembered was the jolt right before the plane taking off. The next thing I know is that I am only 2 hours away from landing in Taipei. Reality starts to set in a little more - I am unemployed! An interesting feeling that I don't have to worry about Altera and Cisco when I wake up ...

Just a couple observations that I've made: You know you've spent a month in Taiwan when... ...you start noticing the different types of mopeds instead of thinking they all are the same (the funniest name of one that I've seen so far is the "Cha-Cha" and the nicest ones all seem to be made by Yamaha) ...anything more than $100NT (about $3 US) is way too much to pay for a meal- i.e. McDonald's is way expensive. ...temperatures in the ...