Embarrassment

This is what my desk looked like a couple of hours ago, the sad part is that I had already cleaned up some when I took this picture...how pathetic is that? I don't get how I can clean every night and by the next evening my room is already a disaster zone again...but at least I am being good and clean every night or every other night :D

Going Fishing

Saturday we were using these little fish guys to build with, when it was time for the five year olds to clean up they decided to bury me with them, Rain decided that it would be funny to shove some down my shirt (don't worry I was wearing two shirts). I told them to stop putting them down my shirt so some of the others rushed to get them all out, they patted me down and I thought for sure that we had got them all out. But Saturday night when I was getting undressed I heard clank, clank, clank, clank and I looked down to see 4 plastic fishes on the ground, I started to laugh.
Oh the adventures you have when working with preschoolers :D

Last week sometime Andrea and I decided to be adventurous and try something new at the night market...first when we went to get our fruit drinks Donald suggested that we try what he called House of Leek, he said that it was really good for when our bodies were hot and that it would cool it down, we both got one (I have labeled it as Green Slime :D). It actually turned out to be pretty good and the last several times that I have gone to get juice that is what I have ended up getting.
Next we had to try something different for our main entree...we decided to try one of stands where you take a bowl and pick what you want and they will cook it for you, well we discovered that there are several different types of those and we went to one that did just deep fat frying. We both got some chicken and potatoes, Andrea got what ended up being fish and I got for us to split some sweet (wasn't very sweet but a little weird being deep fat fried). It was all really yummy but way too much fatty foods to eat together, when we were done Andrea and I both felt a little sick- we rushed to get some fruit and vegetables to help us feel a little healthier :D
It wasn't a bad adventure but we will be a little more prepared next time to try a different kind of booth or to just pick one item that we want to try.

The pictures are...my dinner-potatoes and fried chicken, the green slime (yummy house of leek with pineapple I believe), and the sweet fried stuff (the lady kept on trying to tell us that it was good but we weren't going to jump at something that we couldn't even begin to identify, so finally she called a friend and told us that it was "sweet" and that was all that she told us, but we were brave and went for it :D)
I was adventurous and tried something else this past week, while Andrea was tutoring Vanessa's sister I was going to run down to the night market and get us dinner, Vanessa's Mom offered to drive me over, it was fun to have her walk around with me and explain what things were--- I tried what she called a spring roll, it was more like a soft burrito, it wasn't my favorite and it probably wont be something that I will try again, but hey I tried it once!

First Birthday

Had the first birthday party since I've arrived and it turned out to be a double! It's always a bit of a struggle because they don't generally tell us until part way through the day that we will be having a party in the afternoon class so to allow 15-20 minutes for it, we then always have to re-arrange what we were planning on doing...but this time it worked out perfect! Meggy's Mom walked in and was the gift fairy--she had a balloon for each child, some candy, toys AND they got a cupcake too! It was raining so they were stuck inside with all of their energy from naps and candy!
Ryan is a 3 year old and his Mom is pregnant with twin boys, I am not sure if they knew about doing something for birthday's but I was still glad to see that Yuling made him part of it and had a birthday candle for him and that we sang to him.

Freezer Down

A couple of weeks ago we realized that our food in the fridge wasn't very cold so we turned the dial up about 2/3 of the way up, then it started being really noisy whenever the doors were closed. Last week again the food was not cold at all, so we turned the dial up as far as it would go, but it still didn't do anything and the fridge really started to smell bad (I mean BAD) so we decided to talk to Yuling. The day we meant to go to talk to Yuling we forgot and hadn't gotten to it yet when a repair guy walked in and started working on it, we were a little confused as we hadn't talked to her yet but we weren't going to look a gift horse in the mouth.




It turns out that for some reason the fan or something was blocked and so it wasn't defrosting correctly so the fan/engine was running too much and went kaploop! (or something like that :D), anyway the guy replaced the part and everything was back to normal (except he left about 2 gallons of dirty water spilled on the floor and didn't put EVERYTHING back in the freezer--grrr!).


It also took us a day or so to realize that he had not turned down the dial in the fridge so it was still as cold as it could go, we finally realized it was still high when we were going to have fried eggs and we went to crack it and it looked like this :( Kind of funny but I wasn't too excited about eating a frozen egg, so I completely melted in the sink---kind of fun but your hands feel gross when you are done :D

(But I guess we know that it works :D)

Chinese New Year

(This guy popped up outside what we call the "stuff store" last week sometime, lots of red decorations are coming up :D)

Chinese New Year starts next Sunday and then lasts for 2 weeks. Part of the celebration is that everyone goes home to their hometowns, as such we will only be meeting for an hour next week for church. Andrea and I have been trying to ask people what we should do but we still weren't really sure what we were going to do with a whole week off, Yuling suggested that we go to Taipei as most people aren't from there so the town would be a lot emptier than normal, we talked about it and decided that, that was what we were going to do. Yesterday we bought our train tickets, we will leave Monday afternoon and come back Thursday evening! Now just to find where we are going to stay!

Double Piering

Yuling's niece Allie often likes to come visit during our lunch break, she will sometimes just sit on my bed and watch what I am doing, other times she will try to play with my computer (while I am using it mind you). Wednesday afternoon she came to visit, for some reason she had stickers with her decided to apply them to my ears, so for awhile I had a double piercing...the funny thing is that I forgot they were there until I reached up to itch my ear and when I looked in the mirror it almost looked like I really had a double piercing.