I must apologize for the lack of blogging lately, no excuse
other than my laziness. Life
updates: Well, summer is here, and
the temperatures are soaring. The
weather here is so funny. It
literally went from raining like crazy every day to sunny and scorching hot
everyday. We actually got a day
off school in early June due to torrential downpours and flooding. The overnight storm and constant
thunder kept waking me up all night long, it was some of the loudest thunder
I’ve ever heard!
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| An umbrella does next to nothing when it's raining this hard. |
Then all the sudden, snap! It’s sunny! The cloudy, every day
rainy weather sure brought my mood down and I can safely say, since the sun has
been shining, I am a lot happier!
We weren’t able to get to the beach that often in May and June because
it was miserable out, so since the shift in weather we have managed to get
to the beach 3 times in the past few weeks. As I type this, my computer is showing that it is 36 degrees
outside and sunny and obviously stupidly humid. You would probably melt if you didn’t have air conditioning
in your apartment, which I’m pretty sure is unheard of here. The forcast is calling for highs of
34-35 everyday, which I’m sure won’t change until September or October. This is the heat I remember from last
summer when I first got here, but I think this time around I am more used to
it.
What have we been up to? Hmm.. well Mark’s uncle who he
hadn’t seen in 10 years came to Taipei on business at the end of June. We spent some time with him, taking him
around Taipei and to the beach before he returned home. Funny that their first meeting in 10
years happened to be across the globe in Taipei. I think Mark was very happy to spend time with him, and I
was happy to meet him!
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| Mark and his Uncle Tony |
We are in full swing of taking advantage of the ocean that is an hour away. Most weekends we take the hour and twenty minute train ride to the beach and spend a few hours there. On the weekend, you most likely do not get a seat on the train, and it is soo packed!
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| People have to stand in the aisle when all the seats are taken |
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| Mark and I crammed behind two seats, sitting on the floor of the train |
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| But it's worth the uncomfortable journey in the end |
Time here is beginning to wind down. In less than one week I will be finished
a class that I teach 8 hours a week, so I will be down to teaching only 16
hours a week until I go home. I
will probably be very bored with such minimal hours, but I will have lots of
time to be organizing and packing up our life here. Crazy how much you accumulate in a year. I will be throwing A LOT of stuff
out. You can only fit so much into
2 suitcases! Thinking we may need
more luggage…. Every week that
passes, it hits me more and more that I will be closing this chapter of my life
and it’ll be over. It’s really
getting weird. I have been looking
forward to going home for months now, and now that it is coming up so soon, its
kind of freaking me out a bit. A
lot has changed at home over the past year. Its funny when you leave for a year everyone says “It’s only
a year, everything will be the same when you get back”, this has not been the
case, a LOT has changed over the past year, so I will need a few weeks to
adjust and settle into life at home.
I am truly looking forward to catching up with family and friends, I
miss you all sooo much! It’s
surreal to me that I’ll actually be seeing you all so soon!
I’m going to fully enjoy the rest of my time here! Going to take full advantage of the
amazing food for CHEAP, cheap prices, I’m sure going to miss that! Will visit the beach as much as
possible, and will enjoy time with friends. Time is flying…..
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| Winnipeg is going to seem oh so quiet and tame compared to life here |
