random friends

God bless me with friends, friends who are there for me.

I am alone in Taiwan in this foreign country with NO closed friends, but I am able to put together and have strengths to live on my own with many thoughts and sufferings.

I am still thinking about the two options, I have no regret for choosing option one.  I just wonder why? Option two is NOT even clear, that option – I can’t describe when he said short pain is better than long pain.  My mind is not clear and therapist might be a good option when I can talk to a stranger with no hurting feeling and do NOT take side.

Today,

1.       I went for lunch with Ying Shin, so glad that we met each other on the way out from Feng Chia University.  I guess God did not let me to have lunch alone, he sent someone to cheer me up.  Eat with someone is better than alone.

2.       Went swimming with Kaoru, she was very nice for giving me a ride on her motorcycle to get a swimming cap. Original plan was to go to Carrefour, and we ended at small shop around night market.  I was so blessed that God sent Kaoru to accompany me.

3.       I was so cheerful when my head was up and see Kaoru, but once my head was down in the water I can see the problems I am facing right now.  So painful, the pain for being alone and no support from the loved one because the problem was dropped on me like within one blink.

4.       Chiaki came late, but it’s a joy for seeing her and having a nice funny chat with these two Japanese friends I just met less than three months.

5.       Against. . . thanks God for sending these friends, I know you care and love me.  I might NOT realize it, but they were there, . . . they can’t see or know my problems, but thanks for being there for me.

6.       I really hate my new hobby, writing this re ji makes me cry now and then.

International Food Festival

It's nice surrounded by international friends during international food festival. 

I was joining the thai group, and I am the only non thai people.
Our menu will be:
Thai chicken green curry $30NT
Roti Prata                         $15
Tom Yam Soup               $30
Thai Ice Tea                    $10

We need to make it ourself, and each of group get $1,000NT for free. 
We have more than 12 groups that serve main dishes and 4 groups for dessert.

The preparation was not easy since we need to cook at someone's house.  Majority of us are living at the dorm with no kitchen.  We found out that the kitchen had no light and very limited space to move around.  Many stuff in the kitchen with small and packed refrigerator. The worse part, it's hella messy and dirty.

It took all afternoon preparation from cutting, chopping and cooking.  I left around 11:15 pm since I was the only one living at different dorm. 

We arrived school on Friday morning around 8:30 am and hoping everything will turn out well.  Guess what! what's a day, our mentor teacher did not give us any direction what and what.  We are on our own! yes, we are experts so just DO IT!

Our food was sell very well and very fast, within an hour we were finished.  And by the time are done and ready to go to different classes to buy food, their food was gone too.
Did we prepare too little or people really to try since our dishes are so delicious and cheap.

All of us were dam tired.  It was a great experience and all of us make around $400NT

Break time

Break time. . .
Time to play. . .
five days long weekend for Ching Ming Jie celebration.

Alishan is a famous mountain in Taiwan.
Seriously, it's not easy to manage 15 students for one day trip.
But overall was a fun and tiring trip.

KaoShiong, here we come.
It's a south part of Taiwan and the place is very very hot even on beginning of April.
The trip was a chaostic in the beginning since we were planning to take bus instead of HSR. 
We arrive Chao Ma station at 8 am.
However, no more buses until 12 pm and it would take roughtly 3 hours.
Darm it! we did not expect many were going to kaoshiong for Ching Ming Jie (respecting the elders and visiting the graveyard)

Finally, we decided to take HSR which is much faster yet much expensive

It's my first time staying in the hostel with a very very warm host. It's a brand new hostel, six bed in  a room with a bathroom. Each person was $330 with breakfast.

Kaoshiong was hella hot and humid, the city was so clean and has MRT.
We had hard time finding places to eat.

We rent a bike and cycled around the port and went to ZuJin to eat fresh seafood.

School just started

Chinese school finally started, and I am so exciting to go back to school and meeting new people from different country and learning the hardest language in the world: Chinese.

Chinese has been my favorite language, and I have learned in my childhood with wrong tone and wrong grammar, very fantastic

Main Course 201C, He Fen Fen Lao Shi
Room 408
M-F 8:10- 10:00
Africa - Man Ding, Panama - Chian Nai, Japan - Mei Shi Che, Canada - Kyle, Russia - Ai Yo Na, Mongolian - Oshin, Philipine - Marita, Thailand - Tong Fang, Korean - sister and little brother.

Listening and Speaking 203A, He Li Yu Lao Shi
Room 407
Tues and Thurs 10:10 - 12:00

Pronouncition 102, Zhao Qiong Qiong
Room 405A
Monday 10:10 - 12:00