On the Spot!

Ok! Its Monday afternoon now and I just woke up…yep yep yep… For some reason I felt super tired today and yesterday, I think maybe I was coming down with something but now I took a shower and am ready to give it my all. Let’s see yesterday I went to the meeting at the xinli congregation. There a whole bunch of people there and everyone was super warm and loving I really did have an awesome time. Although during the program I was kinda nodding off… afterwards though I enjoyed the association(jiao1wang3- this word means association, the friends use it a lot, like when referring to a get together or something like that). There were many Japanese friends there learning Chinese, it was really cool talking to them I LOVE THERE ACCENT! Heh heh .. I am supposed to be doing something with one of the Japanese pioneers sometime today… but I’m not sure if it will go down or not. I met these three meiguoren (Americans) there they were just coming back from Australia heading to Korea to then go back home. One of the brothers was named Daniel and he works at Patterson… anyways he works with Kayden Jones (I dunno if I spelled that right) What a small world right!? HA HA HA… Oh yeah and last night we went over Joy’s meimei’s home for some jiaowang and there was a few people there… so after we ate she rearranged the chairs and sat me in the middle and she was like ok everyone ask her questions so that’s what they did at first it was awkward and then joy got distracted and stopped translating what I did not understand. I got such a headache… I don’t think I have been that nervous before. Ha ha maybe that’s why I slept so much today. I FEEL LIKE TIME IS RUNNING OUT! For this week the following is on the agenda: 1. I need to go get my glasses fixed (they broke, good thing I brought my contacts ne?) 2. I need to go purchase my ticket from the train station to go see JingRu… Joy say’s I have to go alone… but somehow I doubt she will let me do that. 3. Tomorrow I am supposed to go stay with this pioneer sister (frankly she kinda scares me a little, but we’ll see how it goes… shes really nice she gave a bag, b/c my other one fell apart -.-; so sad I know, but I also got another bag, that is super nice!!!!! I think it might be a man bag but whatever I like it, there are so many compartments and it was like $6. NICE! And I got a little bag thingy super cheap that said “NICE!” but I lost it. All well…. Anyways back to my list. 4. After tues and wed. service Thursday I am heading over to JingRu’s, staying there for atleast a week… it all depends on how much fun I have like Denise would say. ^-^… ( right now aili is saying she is going to eat me b/c she is the monster and I am the princess *finally I have reached the status of princess in her book VICTORY!!!!... unfortunately I’m gonna die now LOL* Ok well that’s all for now. Let me see if I can post at least one more picture. Ok BYE BYE

ZAIJIAN^_^

Sum it up!

Sorry for taking so long to update… Ha! Well… where should I begin? Sadly I don’t remember what exactly has happened …. Some of it I just choose to forget >.<; ( I got to go to a middle school and watch a English singing contest, it was entertaining at first,… but they kept repeating the SAME songs… I wanted to run but didn’t know where to run to.) So far I’ve seen a drunk guy on street and crazy lady yelling at me. I guess that is an adventure in its self. Dui bu dui? Which reminds me, Joy uses a lot of Taiwanese which gives me a headache, because I don’t understand a thing… it was making me really sad at first because A LOT of people speak Taiwanese and all I can say is Weishenmi! So now I have decided I will try to learn that too… apparently it is a lot like Cantonese and fujianese so Ah! What could it hurt?! Diu bu diu (dui bu dui). So we have been looking for an antenna for the TV and.. we finally found one. So now we have TV which is really bad b/c now I have the option of staying home and watching TV all day. >.< style=""> It’s so funny… we’ll be walking down the street and aili walks so slow Joy just keeps walking and Aili is just tip toeing down the street. When that dog barked at her … she ran so fast time stopped. >.<;. Oh yeah and let’s talk about today we are walking down the street and Aili again did not listen to her mom and ran ahead and a scooter was coming and aili freaked out and just froze and the scooter was coming right towards her. I was like>O<… but she was ok. Today was like super hot … I think the hottest its been… but it will only get hotter I hear. Well except Monday… its supposed to get cooler… yah weather is wack! No… I have not gotten sick there were a couple of close calls though like the day I got soaked, but I came home and dried off. We had lunch with a whole bunch of Joy’s friends, one the sister’s brothers was in town so he ate with us, he lives in Holland. This brother spoke English so I got to talk a lot YAY! He learned English in the UK so there was a heavy UK/Holland/Chinese accent. Anyways he is in a Chinese congregation of 30 people with 1/3 Chinese speakers… close to our situation in Raleigh. Ok so moving on… I’m sorry but it is still difficult for me to eat pig intestines… so chewy and, they aren’t that bad when they are covered with fried seasonings and stuff… but still chewy. So after lunch we went over to a sister’s house and had fruit and tea. Her house was so pretty … it was like stepping into an old timey movie. So after that Holland brother (don’t remember name) Joy, Aili, and I went to Taibei 101, but just to the mall part, that’s the most foreigner s I’ve seen yet. (Which reminds me, the other night we were at this other mall and we were walking out and I saw these two waiguoren come out of a taxi and I like to look at them and figure out where they are from… so the guy looked at me and is like … do you speak English… and I was like yeah and he asked where the food court was and I said down stairs. WOO HOO! I gave my first directions in Taiwan!!) Back to the story… so we didn’t stay at 101 too long, so we left and went to some famous bookstore that I need to go back to. While we were exiting 101 there were all these tourist groups and the tour guide would point up and say something and the entire group would look up and go ahhhhhh! In amazement. So we went to the bookstore… ate some dou4hua1. It was a lot… couldn’t finish. Afterwards we got on the bus and went home, as soon as we arrived after being stuck in traffic we ran and changed for meeting. Went to Nanqu congregation meeting. It was nice, I met this sister who is from California who knows a sister in California who is from NC… Erin I think it might be that one sister you were talking about… what was her name? And I commented too… well actually I just read one of the questions on paragraph 2. The friends were so cool… there are a couple of Japanese sister there and 3 Americans… and a bro from California I think he might be ABC I dunno. After the meeting we went to eat at this place across the street, and there was another drunk guy he came by our table and knocked over my drink… so he was like I Sorry I Sorry! And ordered us some shrimp. Ok so that is all for now. ZAIJIAN!

Taiwan Branch!

Tuesday we headed over to the branch … it was a little ways away but worth it. There are about 30 some members... Joy knew most of them… so it took forever to get thru the tour. Qian dixiong was the leader, he was super patient he actually spoke to me in Chinese the whole time even though he could have spoke English. It’s a lot like Brooklyn but way smaller. They have a pool! Ha ha. So, one thing that impressed me a lot was that even though there are quite of bit of publishers here… there is still a great need. Especially in the mountain areas, because people barely go there. Which makes me sad… all those people out there who need to know the truth, wow it really is true … “workers are few”… so we all need to get out there and find those people…. Really! Here its easy to find people… they are everywhere, back in NC … they are there too, we just need to find those who have the desire to learn about Jehovah and his kingdom. And for many of us who don’t speak the language well, Don’t give up! Bu Yao FangQi! Find the motivation to study, find a reason that will keep you going! Every time you feel like giving up or don’t feel like studying, then please remember the reason why you are in this. Study hard! Try to make just 20 mins. In your busy schedule, Sit down and study. Bust out the require brochure and translate the words or practice reading put a couple of sentences together and get Dong or someone to check them for you. And of course be sure that your relationship with Jehovah is a good one, that way he will also bless your effort. Anyways let me stop rambling… Ok that’s all for now I guess!

ZAIJIAN! (^_^)

ON MY OWN!....well a lil

From Taiwan

Alright Everyone… Let’s see… So Monday I woke up at Sister Chou’s house and Joy calls Sandy and says that I need to be back to Taibei. So I’m like ALRIGHT let’s go! So sister Chou drove me to the Subway and we had a pretty good conversation. She invited me to go out in service with her and this other pioneer sister. So then she dropped me off at the subway station and I there I went to the train all by myself! I felt like I really fit in. heh heh! It took about 40 mins to get back to zhongshan bei lu (where Joy lives). I got back to the street she lives off of and I thought OH YEAH I got this but I kept walking and walking and…. Stuff started looking odd… I PASSED IT… But I found out my error soon. So I walked back and came up to the apt. So then we got in the car and headed over to Ma jiemei’s house for Lunch. So when we arrived I went up to the 3^rd floor and there were many sisters already eating including an 82 year old sister. We had awesome food of all kinds! SO GOOD! The sisters were all very nice. I got all the same question s so I think I can answer where I am from and how many sis. I have and that my entire family is in the truth. For dessert we had this very delicious cake!!!! So soft and not too sweet. Yumm… and then I went and had a cavity filled YAY! The dentist awesome was cool on the first floor there were dentist chairs and rooms… kinda cool how there was traffic right beside where the DR was working on a person… ha but whatever…. Ha ha! Then the second floor they have a room with a tv and Cali OK machine… it’s the shouxi floor (relaxing lou). After singing with Jesse for a while (who we are trying to convince to come to Beika) we went yo Yi Jiemeis house and had dinner. Kaili and her sister were there (the ones who greeted us at airport) and yi jiemei and ma jiemei and jesse and me and joy… Ashley was asleep the whole time. *side note.(Gabby ….Kaili reminds me of a Taiwanese version of little Nelly). We had some really good food. I took pics of that too… and then we had this pretty Taro Cake. And then…. Went home to sleep.

From Taiwan

Side story!

So the parking decks are super awesome. I think they have them in NY too.... Its like a vending machine, you are assigned a number and that is the ramp that you are supposed to park in. Anyways so there are a total of 9 in one section. 3 at the very bottom 3 level and 3 on top. anyways so we were ready to ride so Joy goes over to the car opens the doors and was ready to pull the car out, when her keys fell down the hole. It was hilarious... Sandy insisted we call the parking dude, but Joy was like "I'll take care of it" ya'll just gotta see the video... I'll post that eventually. Ok... well sleepy time... ok bye.

@ DanShui!

SURPRISE! (I'm super tired again..)

Well today was another wonderful day in Taiwan. I stayed with Sandy at sister Chou's home at Danshui, which is at the north west tip, right beside a river. Anyways, I was able to go to the SAD for the hsinchu congregation, and sorrounding area. It was AWESOME.. I did not understand bunches though. But I did not fall asleep ... so jetlag is finally wearing off! Anyways I met some really cool people there was this one girl that really made an impression on me. She is my same age, she has helped her two younger siblings come into the truth since she was 10. And now she is attending both an english and chinese congregation, her english is amazing. She took me around to meet different friends and they all practiced their english. Apparently all the kids get together and do evening witnessing. There was one 14 year old brother who was interviewed he takes the lead on wed. nights... and he said something else which impressed everyone,... moved them to oooooss... and ahhhh..s but i dunno. Anyways, so there were 20 ppl baptized and about 1,950 people in attendance. I found brother and sister Huang amongst the hundreds of people, it was pretty cool... SO COOL i found someone I knew, what are the chances of that happening? So many zelous people!

After we left the assembly we headed back home ( sister chous house which is on 12th floor , by the way the view from the roof is AMAZING!) I soooo wanted to go to sleep ... but Sandy took me out again, we went to something called yuren.(something) Fishermans wharf or something like that... anyways its a tourist spot, a lot of ppl come and walk on the bridge mostly couples (It was just me and Sandy so we kept each other company... *sigh*) anyways ... so then we made a couple other stops and came home. When we arrived we went up to the roof and watched the fireworks. SOOOOOOOOOOO... piaoliang.
So now I will bid farewell and goodnight!

zaijian!

First Couple of days in Taibei!

Sorry everyone! It took forever to get internet access. Everything is under control now though. >.< style=""> At the food market we purchased this fruit I have never had or even heard of … its called LianWu… It’s like a skinny apple… I will show you a pic. So then I ate a Hu Jiao Bing (like a fried bun with meat and vegetables inside). Then we ate some yogurt smoothie things and then had Korean dumpling noodle soup.. even with the heat. >.< Afterwards I was super Baole! I think I might need to slow down a little with the food. -_-; Not to mention last night we went to the big night market and I ate too much then on top of some sushi Nancy gave me. Oh yeah by the way yesterday we went to a spa… and had massage… wow was that nice, that was the first time that I ever had a massage.. I almost fell asleep but it was too painful at times ha ha! Super relaxing though! COOL COOL! Ok well honestly I could spend hours sitting here but … uh … I sleepy now and I will download some pics.