週末快樂！

Happy Weekend! I celebrated the Moon Festival this past Wednesday with my friends. We went to a place south of Taipei to enjoy the hot springs, BBQ and moon cakes. This week on Tuesday I will celebrate Confucius Day or Teacher's Day. I will be getting up around 4 am to take a taxi to a temple to witness a ceremony. I'm excited but it makes me tired to think about the time.

I am really settling down finally after getting homesick for a little bit. Now I meet new people all the time although mainly these people are Japanese because they all say Chinese is a good language to learn since it's the next world power. We all think alike :)

To do a little recap of the highlights of my week, I had the chance to go to a night market targeted at clothes only. I didn't plan for this. In fact, I had in mind dinner, since the night markets are the best places to eat a lot for cheap. Instead, we arrived to the best clothes night market and had a rough time finding food. At least, someone got to buy themselves a new necklace. Afterwards I shared a bottle of wine with a friend from Honduras and spoke in Spanish listening to some Latino music.

Tonight, I just got back from a restuarant owned by my Japanese friend's parents. They closed the restuarant for us for the night and we tried a variety of new tastes...or at least I did. Everyone else was familiar with it accept for the one Korean boy and the Taiwan girl. I enjoyed myself and tried sake and plum wine for the first time. I spoke in Chinese and picked up a lot of Japanese phrases and I remember one Korean word! I find these encounters to be the best because I never hear such terms inside the classroom.