One month from today I will be leaving Taiwan. A place that has infact "touched my heart". Where has time gone?

 

Over the weekend we got to go to Taipei..

We we finally able to go to the temple.

We went to the top of Taipei 101

I love this city!

rose

Today was an explore Hualien kind of day.

Recently I have been obsessed with rice fields. I don't know why.

Such a cute old guy. I had to take a picture.

We even found ourselves in the middle of a gay parade.

I finally got a picture of the Buddhist University. I think it is such a beautiful building.

Vegetable pasta! Yum! They love Lima beans here and so do I: )

We ended our Saturday by attending a baptism of two investigators, and also helping the sisters teach. Then off to the night market for dumplings and cotton candy.

Each day after I am done teaching at the preschool, I tutor for a couple hours. I really love the kids I get to work with. One in particular that I am going to miss is this girl. Meet Rose.

Love her!

We have a lot of fun, can you tell?

Each week Rose brings us something to snack on while we are working

She is so silly.



Thanks to my Logan for providing us with treats for this week.

We always have so much fun, lots of treats and I promise we work a little bit too!

Mothers Day

This week we learned about moms and what better way to teach them about moms than to have them see what it would be like to be pregnant?  Mostly it was fun and they loved the "bubbles" aka balloons.

A pregnant boy riding a bike can be quite amusing to watch

How cute is this? Using her belly to rest her hands.

Also I miss and love my  Mom and I am sad I wasn't able to be home for Mothers Day. I guess there is always next year right?

Riding in the Rain

When you wake up at 5:19 in the morning you get to see the sunrise. However, you may be to tired to actually get out of bed to take a picture so you take a picture from your bedroom window. Good picture taking Ashley. Good One.

Sometimes you get caught riding your bike in the rain. It may not look like I am wet but I can assure you I am soaking wet. Oh how I love riding my bike in the rain.

Only two months left. How can I leave them?

Country Mothers

I keep thinking " I wish I had something to blog about." then I realized... I live in TAIWAN. I have so much I could blog about so here is my attempt to catch you guys up on what I have been up to for the last month.
First we live by Taroko National Park. It is so beautiful!! We are beyond lucky to be able to live so close. Kamille and I have been able to go a couple times now. The first time, the professor from the University we volunteer at took us. She drove us up and took us on a couple hikes. The second time Teacher Stephanie from the preschool took us with her family. It was so fun. We all rented bikes and we got to ride down, stopping whenever we wanted to go on suspension bridges, take pictures, or go on different hikes. If you ever come to Taroko, that is the way to do it. The people of Taiwan never fail to amaze me with how helpful and willing they are to help us have the best time.

Next off it is getting warm here.. No no let me rephrase that, it is getting HOT here! Yuling says "There are two seasons here. Summer and Winter." True. One day we are freezing cold, the next we are dying of heat! On the days it is hot, the bugs come out and they are not little bugs either. The other day Kamille and I saw a giant bug and the teachers were laughing at us because we thought it was so scary! We even have a lizard living in our kitchen that chirps like a bird! Neat huh?

See the Spider?

The cockroach looked a lot bigger in real life.

Two words. Country Mothers.

Thank you missionaries for telling us about this wonderful place where we can get American food!

Look how big this Parmesan chicken is!

So there you have it. Just a little on what I have been up to this last month!

Happy Easter

They may not celebrate Easter over here but they sure loved having an Easter egg hunt, who doesnt?