10.10.2011

Happy Birthday Taiwan.

We had a holiday here for National Day. There are lovely flags hanging everywhere, it is very all very festive. Luckily the shops were open so I made the most of the day off by window shopping.

Well rested to head back to school tomorrow. I have to get my visa extended this week so it's almost been two months! Only four months to go now, what will happen then I wonder??

GOING NATIVE

Do you see what I saw this morning?

FRIDAY NIGHT FRY

I don't know where this week has gone, but Friday has come, and we are ready to start the long weekend! To celebrate a perfect score on my latest test, a treat at the night market was in order....

MUST SEE

I attribute my early American accent to Elmo, he was always my favourite on Sesame Street. I have to see this!

IT WON'T STOP

It has been raining almost non stop since Friday night. Although I like any excuse to wear my gumboots, after a few days it has become rather a bore.

In China the umbrella of choice seemed to be the fold up variety but here it is all about the big one. I like it, it's a bit more substantial and provides far more coverage. It also helps that outside every store or in this case the library, there is an umbrella rack.

Of course there is always the risk that you can't find your own when you go to leave. Luckily people here seem to have a pretty relaxed attitude to umbrella ownership. On Friday night, standing in the rain while trying to hail a cab a guy came out of a store to lend us one. This we promptly lost outside a bar, mistakenly taking another instead! Whoops. 

SWEET

The Taiwanese have a major sweet tooth and there is no end to the number of sweet snacks on offer. I've always been a sucker for all of the waffly kind of snacks like you get in Hong Kong so today I split a serving with a friend. The flavours to choose from were Chocolate, Cream, Vanilla, Taro and Cheese. We went for Cream. They were made fresh, I love that the waffle griddle has writing in it, this definitely makes it more fun to eat. The cute packaging also helped!

THE DAILY GRIND

photo: MTC. Pretty imposing huh? You'll laugh when you see inside.

I have settled into quite a good routine now, when it isn't upset by illness that is....