Days Like These

We got to help celebrate two of the kids birthdays yesterday. Its days like these that make me LOVE my life.

The kids I work with couldnt be more precious!

 Jeremy

 Kevin

 Zoey and I

 Eva

 Happy Birthday to Oliver and Ryan

 This is Emma, I got to name her:)

 Charlie, Ethan, Gini and Joy

 Bailey

Cherry and Timmy



Happy one month aniversary.

This past Saturday marked the one month of being here in Taiwan. I cant believe how fast time is going by and I hate it! I dont want it to go fast. Im loving everything here. I already miss everything, especially the kids when I think about me having to go home. Time please feel free to slow down. This month has been an amazing one full of adventures. I cant wait to see what this next month will bring!

To celebrate our one month in Taiwan, Kamille and I got to go to the Pingxi Lantern Festival. It was amazing. What a beautiful this to see all the lanterns floating in the night sky!

Oh we just made some new friends..

Earlier in the month we made our way to Taipei where we met new friends.

There were tons of lantens and decorations for Chinese New Years.This year is the year of the Dragon.

We went to Taipei 101 the worlds 2nd tallest building. Im obsessed with the picture below. I think Ive fallen in love with this city..

We went to the Confusious Temple

This is the San Yat-Sun Memorial in Taipei

                                                            The Bloom Art Expo.

                                                         

We went to the Zoo. These are the lovely girls I was with! 22-22

 Oh and look we finally made it to the ocean even though we only live about a 15 min bike ride from it! Next stop, its off to the jungle.

 I havent even been here two weeks, and I have tried so many good foods!! Kamille secretly makes fun of me but I love to take pictures of everything new I eat! Unfortunatly, I didnt get to take pictures of a few things. I have also had tofu, seaweed, pig ear, and a couple things I have no idea what they were. Nothing I have tried has been too bad, infact i have liked most everything. Except  for soy milk I only put that in chocolate-peanut butter-Banana Smoothies. Here are pictures for most everything else!

Taiwanese Guava

Wax Apple

Jujube

I call this hidden cheese stick bread because there is cheese in the middle!! So good!

Cheese Bread



Too sweet for me.





The filling was gross



They call it "Chinese Pizza"

French toast sandwich

Filled with green onion

Best two pizzas!!

Beef Fried Rice

Pancake filled with cabbage and ham, then topped with dried fish and some sauce

Strawberry Apple Smoothie

I have no clue what this is, they gave it to me with my food.

Addicted!! You can get them in the U.S. try them if you havent already.

A little girl Clarie always runs up to me and says "Teacher, Candy" Then she gives me candy.

 Im loving it here and cant wait for all the other foods I will get to try. Especially during Chinese New Years!!

Kill The Beast..

Kamille and I made a plan to sneak attack Bartholomew, to our surprise when I opened up the cupboard to look for something else there he was just mocking us on the cleaners!! We got him though, or so we thought apparently that was just his best friend. We found Bartholomew today in his regular cupboard, we are still working on killing him, but atleast we have one down. Check out Kamilles blog for a DIY tutorial on how to kill cockroaches.

Yes! We got him!

Oh sick

Ahh look at his legs!!

Not so sweet potatoes

 Me and Kamille walked to church on Sunday, Its only about a fifteen minute walk so not to bad. We decided that walking was probably more safe until we figured out how to ride our bikes without dying in the traffic!! You will be pleased to know that we have used our bikes since then, and are still living! Anyways the missionaries translated for us, and ward members who spoke English came and talked to us, everyone here is so nice!

The sister missionaries took us to the night market one night and they ordered me beef fried rice! It was yummy as can be. The night market is probably going to be our favorite place to eat. Everything is really cheap only about 50NTD which is like $1.75. Its cheaper to go buy a fresh cooked meal than to buy something to make. Plus everything we have tried we have loved. We went by our self the other night and I got a smoked honey chicken sandwich. It is kind of neat because its like french toast that they have hollowed out the middle and then they put the meat and veggies in the middle and it was very good. I could eat that every night!! Also, it is the only place that has English next to the Chinese so we can just point to what we want. I need to try a smoothie still and we found a place that has pizza we might try soon!!

Finally, I was given my topic for teaching and guess what it is?? SWEET POTATOES! What?!? I have to plan and prepare lessons around sweet potatoes for a month?? Oh dear! I'm going to have to get very creative!! If you have any suggestions or ideas please let me know... I'm going to need them! However, I also get language arts, so that will be fun being able to teach the alphabet and plan those lessons!