An awesome weekend!

Ni hau! Happy May to you all, I can only hope this means the end of all bad weather for everyone! My weekend was great, I worked all Saturday and was so tired from never being able to sleep in, when all of a sudden Lee calls me on my lunch break and asks me to step outside: which had me panicking that something awful was about to be said - when there he was! Standing in front of my school with a picnic lunch that he made! He drove us out to this beautiful lake-view beside an enormous temple, it was the sweetest way possible to brighten my day! After an afternoon of teaching, and a private session with our cute little kids, we indulged in a pizza dinner and there was nothing better! Around 10:30 we met a few friends at a bar called Functions that was, get this, GIVING AWAY FREE ALCOHOL!!! Anytime before midnight you could drink as much as possible, and we did! The place was completely packed and orders were being filled for 6 drinks at a time! We stayed there until about 2am, observing part of a Taiwanese bisexual kissing party lol (funniest member seen above), at which point we finished the evening by dancing at a night club until almost 4!
Sunday morning I woke up and cleaned the entire apartment (fun!!), went grocery shopping, and then in the afternoon Lee and I went to Taipei for a day full of shopping. The highlight of it all was a restaurant called Cold Stone Creamery, which was essentially a make-your-own ice cream place; in short, my dream come true!! You pick any flavour you want and any toppings you want, and they had EVERYTHING you could imagine!! Then they put all the treats inside of the ice cream like a stuffed pocket, so the ice cream is a ball with this amazing delicious treat inside! I was in Heaven!!
All in all, it was tons of fun and now I'm just back at work for 2 weeks until Lee's family arrives for a week long tour of Taiwan!

A Penny Saved, A Camera Earned!

Spring greetings! It is hot and sunny here now, finally, and I'm enjoying every skirt-wearing minute of it! I have been sick with the flu all week and this weekend I finally felt better. All week I was teaching while sick and just going home to sleep after, no bowling, no nights out. After teaching all Saturday and playing with my cute private class' kids, I happily went out for a friends birthday celebration, which was a night at one of the local restaurants/bars from 10 until 4 in the morning! Quite the entertaining night! Everyone left then to go to another bar, but I left with a friend and walked home. Then on Sunday Lee and I went to the next nearby city for an afternoon of shopping, and a successful trip it was! A new shirt, some cute undies, and a pair of green army Converse shoes which I can't decide if I want to keep or not! But the really big news is that I made the official decision on the purchase of my new camera, and with this decision made, it was time to perform the feat that I have been building toward for 6 months: the opening of my piggy banks! Two piggy banks, full of 50's (the equivalent of the Canadian toonie) added up today to more than enough for the entire cost of my new red Casio Exilim digital camera! I am so excited!! Now I start over again; next piggy bank purchase: my Sony Vaio laptop! Giggity!

A Taiwanese Pesach!

Belated Chag Sameach! Passover came and went, and I didn't even have any matzos! I made Lee and I a candle-lit sedar complete with soup, chicken and latkes! I managed to keep pesach almost entirely, with just one little slip-up; understandably so in my opinion, as I live in the land of rice and noodles! I broke it officially over a Pizza Hut buffet, indulging in pizza and chicken wings and pasta and salads, it was a FEAST! I hope all of your sedars were family-filled, as mine could not be.

Nothing else too new. Last weekend was a holiday here, but it poured for 4 days straight so day trips were minimal; shopping in Taipei, nights out at the bar, a few restaurants, and many rented movies! Now it's back to school and classes are good! I finally have internet in the new apartment after many, many weeks without it! Everything else is great and I'm just enjoying the quiet time until Lee's and my own family arrives in the upcoming months!