Rainy Days

Well my last couple of weeks have been a lot better than my previous ones. For one I'm no longer deathly sick, and I have the energy to teach a whole day without a nap. I've started teaching some new classes this past week. On Saturdays and Wednesdays I'm now teaching speech and writing classes for my older students. They have this big competition coming up in the next month and the kids are preparing. I don't know how these kids have time to do anything fun seriously, they go to school, then english school twice a week, plus their homework, other extra curiculum activities, etc. They're wonder children I swear. But some of their speeches are really good. A couple of the kids are at the level where they can throw in a couple of jokes, and another one of my students is presenting his like he's a radio dj. All in all I'm having fun helping them with them. In december I'll be a judge at one of the competitions so it will be fun to see what the other schools are doing for them. I've also started teaching the teachers at my kindie branch english with another teacher Anneke. We can teach them anything, so we're teaching them fun vocabulary for dating, shopping, etc. Today was our first class and it went really well. It's nice to teach a class where I'm showing someone how to speech like we do back home. Most of the kids I teach sound like robots when they speak, and they don't get to learn any slang. Today I was teaching them to use "Yo", "What's up?", " Later". Next week some of the Chinese Teachers are going to teach us some Chinese so that should be good. My current level of Chinese is not great. Some of the new words I've learned are "Jiow Jiow", which means "go, go, go" and "sigga" which means "I want". But I'm still playing charades pretty much most of the time when I speech to the people here. (Brock brock brock- chicken, choo choo- train station, yeah it's a bit humiliating at times).

On Sunday I went to Taipei to see my Vancouver friend Krista and try and find a winter jacket. Supposedly it's going to get pretty cold here in the next couple of weeks. We'll see if that's true or not....right now the average temp is like 26 degrees but it is raining like crazy as you can see from the pics. We went by Taipei 101, so you can see what it looks like in the day. But here are some pics from the last couple of weeks. One is South Park Lindsay, and real life Lindsay, see if you can see the resemblance (yes I was bored one day). But anyhoo keep me updated on all of your lives. I like to hear about anything, even the parts you think are boring. Like if you ate a really good bean burrito one day, hey man I want to know (god do I ever miss mexican food).

-Lindsay