Li Chia Royal Garden Hotel Taichung

It was a pretty quiet week this week so I don't have much to update you with....<br><br>During the week I have continued to stay busy at night with badminton and Chinese lessons. I am going to badminton 2 nights a week, Monday and Wednesday and then I have Chinese on Thursday. It is nice having things to go do on the weekdays so that I don't just sit at home or stay at work way later than I need to! Chinese lessons are going great. I am so glad ...

... to be quiet. But once they figured it out they were silent for the rest of the story. They thought Spanish sounded so funny and they loved hearing another language. It was fun for me to try and read Spanish to them too. <br><br>This weekend was alumni weekend at St. Mary's so I was sad knowing that all my friends were back together for the weekend. I did call them on Friday night and got to talk to them all so that was nice but Katie, my roommate who graduated from St ...

It is hard to believe that I have been here for 2 months already! I am amazed at how fast the time here has gone. Summer is almost over, we start our regular program on Monday in conjunction with the students' Chinese school starting. Next week will be a week of adjustments and my schedule will be changing. Just when I was getting a routine that was working for me I have to go and readjust everything. Oh well it will be a nice change except for that I will ...

... four days. Afterward, we will be spending a few days exploring Bangkok and seeing what it has to offer. During the second week of Chinese New Year, half of our group will be returning to Taiwan or flying to the neighboring country of Bali. However, I will be staying in Thailand with four other staff members. We are looking at booking a tour of northern Thailand where we would ...

... ESPN this morning. There was no Yankees re-run. There was not even a ping-pong or badminton match on to be watched. No, instead I needed to pinch myself because my television set was broadcasting the Wisconsin Badger/Akron football game! I couldn't believe it! Camp Randall Stadium was being shown on my television set. Granted, I already knew the outcome of the game and it was obviously a rerun, but I was still ...

... blocked from the sun from head to toe (keep in mind that it was ninety degrees and very humid!). In addition to wearing long sleeved shirts and pants, many of them were holding umbrellas and wearing gardening gloves. This is due to the fact that it is considered to be "unattractive" for a woman to have tan skin. I believe having tan skin as a woman insinuates that you are a lower class citizen who must do the outdoor work that is ...

... of strong raindrops and even stronger winds. It was rather unexpected because I had not heard that a storm was about to hit our island. However, instead of getting up and looking at the situation I was going to have to scoot to work in, I just lied in bed and listened to the raindrops; patiently waiting for my alarm to go off. I woke up at 6:30 and started getting ready to shower when Joe ...

... set aside for new teachers to prepare their classrooms and begin familiarizing themselves with the school's curriculum. However, when the campers go on a field trip, we all know that field trips need chaperones. And who better to chaperone a field trip than the ultimate professional chaperone himself, Teacher Scot. I have been a professional field trip chaperone since freshman year of high school. My Mom used to "employ" me to watch over a group of students during ...