Rainy Day

Ever since I arrived I have pretty much been in AWESOME! weather for some reason I am always in the right place at the right time as far as weather goes. For example... before I arrived to Taiwan it was really rainy, Skies cleared as soon as Cali arrived! then it was rainy in Danshui but then cleared nice and cool when i arrived deng deng... (etc) Last Thursday was a different story ... it started Wed. Night.. there was thunder and very heavy rain... so much... it woke me up in the middle of the night. Crazy huh! I know! so I had plans to go out in service that day but it was raining way too hard.. i kinda assumed that people would not be out... WRONG! the Taiwanese friends here are still out in the Big Rain! Apparently the foreigners don't usually go out in the rain... not used to it I guess... So I stuck at home ALL DAY! occasionally running out for Lunch ... Dinner... Snacks ... and so forth. Very productive i must say! I'm done packing.. i am hoping Joy will help me take some stuff back... b/c I uhhhh... may have packed too much coming here 〉。《 yep yep we'll see how this goes! Today Friday... I went to have some Mexican food in Danshui and got some really bad attitude from a qipao lady... She was not too nice... at first she was but when i was not totally convinced about her product she was so RUDE... see if i go back pissssss... anyways i talked to the owners back at the Mexican or should I say "mexican" restaurant. They were pretty interesting... the cook is not really even a cook he is Canadian Born family from Guadaljara and he married a taiwanese girl and they opened up a restaurant... he learned the dishes from his Fumu! interesting right!? The place has potential... i wanna go home and learn to cook now... could be very useful in future!!

Cali the Explorer

Hmm... I don't remember exactly where I left off... but let's pick up from Today.. Wednesday.. the 3rd? i dunno... This morning I was gonna go out in service.. but uhhh.. I guess I convinced myself it wasn't until 9:30 so I called up around 8 50 to see when we met. It was 9... so i was like ok .. i guess forget that... I guess I needed a push out of bed so I could at least make it there for an hour... instead i started packing... and putting tags on stuff.. by the way "what do you get a guy as a souvenir ?!" This is so complicated... I think of it over and over again.... I dunno ... Sandy says bring back cookies or cake... so i think that might be what I end up doing... I can't think of anything else... any suggestions?... any ways after studying my watchtower i realized i brought the wrong pinyin one.. Great! now all i got are characters! this is gonna be fun!.. afterwards I wondered over to Taibei mains station... in order not to pay for riding the train I walked it.. not bad.. it was hot.. but i made it... didn't meet any crazy filipinos this time.. i did see a lot of waiguoren though. after hanging around there... i decided I would walk to Taibei 101.. I WAS ON A Mission! (wow it took me a few trys to get the speling of mission right) so i started walking and then the blobs of sweat started getting thicker so i decided i had given a pretty good attempt and took myself down to the train platform and in just a couple of minutes there i was at taibei 101 actually i never really made it there... i went to the Elite mall for some Bibimbap instead... it was too hot to walk another block to 101. the food was good... and a british sounding taiwan chef man explained to me the whole concept of having to mix the dish ... blah blah blah... but hearing his accent was fun ... so i played dumb and gasped Ohhh! ... then i read my mags... and decided to get some ice cream at BigToms again... i got the obama brownie.. delicious... met some snobs and then decided i would walk back home... that way i could see stuff... but just when i started... Joy called me! TUN TUN TUN!!!!! to be continued...

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