Booked my first trip!!

Hi all!! Here's a random photo of one of my substitute classes, the kids are doing the ultimate form of embarrassment: the pee-gu-man dance!! When one team wins a game, let's say a spelling bee, then the losing team gets taunted and then has to stand up and spell the word with their tushys! Needless to say it's hysterical to watch!

So Lee and I booked our first trip!! In October we get our first holiday, 5 days off work for Mid-Autumn Festival, spanning from Friday to Tuesday. The only problem is that Lee and I are teaching with a private school (shhh! Don't tell Gloria!) for that Saturday, so instead of having 5 days free to fly off-island we only have 3 - but this could not have worked out more perfectly! After some looking around it was painfully clear that every flight out of Taiwan during this holiday has been severely jacked up in price, we're talking Canadian thou$and$, so we wouldn't have been able to go away for 5 days anyway. Luckily, we found the VERY LAST HOTEL ROOM available in beautiful sunny Kenting! It's the most Southernly point of Taiwan and it's a tropical beach has been built into a National Park, please check out the website to get the full scoop! So we are making more than enough money on that one Saturday to pay for the whole trip (it's sooo cheap!!) and we're going with a few other friends from our dorm, so it should be a blast!!

In other news, Lee and I are going to Taipei this weekend! Just for one night, Saturday to check out the huge Night Market and Taipei 101 (previous tallest building in the world) and then have the next day to see museums and temples and botanical gardens and the fun crazy streets! I can't wait!

This week has been absurd, pulling three 9am-9pm days and getting no sleep, but it's been so much fun - so many amazing kids in my classes and some bonding time with the dorm-mates :o) Aside from the too-hot-and-rainy weather, it's perfect!