Plaza International Taichung

... Some other teachers and myself are going to an orchestra performance where they will be playing famous Halloween songs! Then the weekend after that a group of us are going to Green Island with our same guide from when we went rafting. It is an island off the coast of Taiwan on the East side of the island. It should be a fun weekend! <br><br>I have a busy week this week with grades due. Now I have 2 classes to do grade for too! We also ...

... early! It was a good decision. I slept for 11 hours! I must have been tired! <br><br>Sunday was another lazy day. I graded some papers that I had brought home and cleaned up the house. Then I got a call to go play some volleyball at a near by high school so Katie and I decided to go play. It was a lot of fun. We played at this super nice high school campus. They have outdoor basketball and volleyball courts and a track. It seemed to be the ...

... Us roommates decided to eat the cooked part and toss the rest. The picture shows the remains of the cake. For a second attempt my roommate Katie tried making brownies at another teachers house (because ours was broken). They burnt within about 5-10 mins of being in, burnt to the point that they almost made the smoke detector go off. The third time was a charm and we were able to serve cookie bars at the party! Those dang toaster ovens...you can't cook ...

... what they refer to as humidifiers with our clothes. They are containers that absorb the moisture out of the air. You have to replace them about every month! <br><br>6. You watch a lot of movies! Among the few English speaking channels are mainly movie channels. Meaning that I watch a lot of movies! One of the few TV shows that they show sometimes is CSI! I love when I catch an episode of that. <br><br>Thats all for now....Until later, Love ya and miss ya! <br>

... we would drive by we got a lot of stares from the Taiwanese. It reminded me of back home when you see a big pack of motorcycles going by you always look. It was the same only we were a big pack of foreigners on scooters! Anyways the trip to get to the waterfall was pretty exciting. The rodes were very curvy and on a steep incline at times. Then towards the end it pretty much looked like a 4-wheeling trail except we were driving our scooters on it! We made it there safely. We ...

... targets. If you hit 3/4 of the targets, you could win a free coupon for food at their little diner. Needless to say, none of us won the pitching contest, and we had little success hitting on machines that were faster than the "slow pitch softball" selection. After the batting cages, we drove to a TGI Fridays (yes, they have them here in Taiwan) where we enjoyed manly burgers and had American-imported beer (I had a Miller Chill, which I was quite ...

... dress. Before the feast would be over, she would have changed her dress three times, wearing three different colors. Her fiancé would change his tie to match the dress colors that she would be wearing. The engagement party made a rather spectacular entrance to the feast, similar to the way a professional wrestler enters the arena in a WWF Wrestlemania contest. The lights were dimmed, smoke billowed out from the ceiling, laser lights jetted across the room ...

... honestly say that I am quite disappointed with the amount of excitement for the Olympics in Taiwan. I really expected people to be excited that a neighboring country that is likely filled with ancestors was hosting the biggest athletic competition in the world. It could possibly be due to the fact that I do not read or speak Chinese, and therefore cannot read the newspaper on a daily basis. However, it just seems as though the people on this island ...

I must say that things are very disorganized at school during the first few weeks after break. I need to learn to take some things in stride and I continuously tell myself to remain flexible and go with the flow, but sometimes, I am only human and things can become quite difficult. Team teaching today went quite well. I team-taught my second graders with another second grade teacher, Katie, who is from Mauston, Wisconsin ...

... series and ended up losing a very close first game. During the five-minute intermission, I gathered the troops to the side and let them know the game plan. They had a pretty strong seventh grader on the opposing battlefield. However, I announced to the students that, doggone it, if they needed me to, I would have to step in and bail them out. Teacher Scot's teams are not losers and there was no rule in the books about how the coach can't join in. The kids were ...