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Pen ✔️
Pencil ✔️
Soup Bowl ✔️
Rice Bowl ✔️
Chopsticks ✔️

Looks like this teacher is all ready for class to start on Monday!

Weekend in Taipei

I'll start out with a fair warning, this post is WAY picture heavy! After a week in our respective new  homes a few of us girls that met up at orientation decided that we had earned ourselves a fun girls weekend, and what better place to do that but while exploring Taipei! After a jumble of buses, express trains, and the high speed rail  (the dang place is only 50 miles from me I swear!) we settled into our swanky little hostel and began exploring!

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 First things first on the relaxing agenda...dinner and drinks! Though I don't have pictures of dinner (we ate too fast!) it was absolutely delicious! 

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Rice Paddy

Just a quick post this morning before I head out for the weekend. A couple of the girls that I met at orientation last week and I are venturing to Taipei to see what all we can find!

I went for a walk last night and found myself here where this video was taken only about a 10 or 15 minute walk from my house. It was so serene and quiet, and it's hard to tell in this video, but the amount of dragon flies buzzing around between the fields and the small road were amazing!

Enjoy! :)

Taiwanese Street Show

This will just be a quick post of mostly pictures for two reasons. 1. I'm sleepy! 2. (and more honestly!) I have no idea what is going on in these pictures!

Apparently this is some type of traveling theater troop that goes around singing and putting on shows. I clearly understood none of it! haha, but I decided to go out and see what was going on since I was able to hear them from my {closed} bedroom window from about noon until I went to bed at night. These pictures aren't the best, but it was still interesting to watch! :)

Taiwan Apartment Tour!!!

Here it is, in all it's glory! May I introduce you to my new "apartment"! 

Although this is by no means a "standard American apartment" (or anything close to  my 2 story 2 bedroom townhouse from Ohio :(  ) this is pretty typical (if not considered large) for a Taiwanese apartment. I am living on the 3rd floor of a couples home and enter and exit through their front entry way to get to my apartment. It is located in the small farming community of Xinfeng within Hsinchu County. I am only about 2 miles from my town's center (though I am by no means in the town!) and 6 miles from Hsinchu City, but they take about 9 minutes and 30 minutes respectively to get to each by bus and/or train.

I can't say my little room feels like home yet, but I'm sure it will come! (I can't lie I've already scoped out several stores sell paint and various art supplies...so these walls won't be bare and lonely much longer!)