Catching up with the craziness!!!

Too much to tell!! Life in Taiwan is going fast! There's always something to do and I love it!! I'll try to summarize and still give you the full effect of awesomeness and ridicule.

- ShauLiuoSho = Little Island. Beautiful place, first camping trip in Taiwan, great food, Taiwanese babies, snorkeling, jellyfish attack!, weird marine species... AWESOMENESS!!

Here we are. Six girls on scooters and motorcycles on our way to adventure. Don't tell, but we got lost on both the way there and back!!

This guy let us pet really cool animals: Blue and Green Sea stars, a huge red slug thing... cool stuff!!

- Aida! my roommate's mom, came to visit! I had known for a week before she surprised Anna! As you can imagine, it was a hard week. The Babbaganoush has never felt as hommie as when she was here = great food, clean house, motherly touch, fun, fun, fun!

Aida cooked for us and Anya had her tutoring class over for dinner. We ate, played games and learn the moves to the famous "Sorry, Sorry" song by Super Junior! It's hot stuff in Taiwan!

- During her stay here we went to DongGang for a boat burning celebration that only happens every 3 years. The event went from 2am until 6am or so. The ceremony started at the temple followed by a parade towards the ocean transfering the boat and all its parts and ended with the burning after long hours of waiting.

Where the ceremony got started! Lots of colors, sounds, smells and people!

The burning boat!

- Weekend of hell: 1. Helmet got stolen, 2. Fell down and hurt myself pretty bad, 3. Helga, my scooter got stolen, 4. I was asked to find a new job. Reasons why I'm not sad anymore about any of this: 1. got a cooler helmet, 2. I fall all the time. the only thing special about this one is that I have a cool story to tell now. 3. I got my scooter back!! The police found Helga close to my house and now it's back and running! 4. now that I don't have this one job, it seems that I can get an even better job where my friends work. Also, I wasn't fired because I'm a bad teacher - just politics.

- Said goodbye to my favorite class. I will miss them.

Joe, My favorite! He always knows the answer. Sam, a bit of a whiner. Vivian and Angel are twins but oh! So different. Vivian will be a famous artist some day.

- Celebrated the ridiculous Halloween holiday with cool friends, awesome costumes and lots and lots of dancing!!

The Newsy. The Russian Spy. Frida Kahlo. Emo Dude. Dirty Mexican. Gypsie Queen

I am happy here. Things are not what I expected. But at the end, What did I really expect? I wanted an adventure, something different, an experience to remember. This, I am getting. Remember me over here and write from time to time.

Much love!