Hello all...Hey giselle yeah im sure working has become such a drag now that im not there.. i mean wheres the drama... wheres the humour... wheres the cheekyness lol it left and now its in a forieng country with noone to joke with.. lol i was having a really blonde day as you all know i have hehe and i was trying to explain to Jenie what that ment and she just did not understand .. they do not really get jokes here at all which sux but theres this guy murphy who lived in canada to learn english for 5 years so he comes to the school once a week and bugs me all day which is nice and refreshing... !! the culture is very different i mean the kids get slapped on the mouth of on the hand/butt if there not being good at school theres certain things you cant say like death or dead because if you do someone in your family will die... tehy are VERY VERY SUPERSTIOUS when someone dies they put like this huge tent over there store or house its usually red.. and they will hire like strippers to come in for the men becasue they represent something really bad and if all the bad energry is pointed towards the stripers the dead person wont get very much... they also rely on the calender for barring them so only good times of the year they will get barried... however everyone is always creamated its weird because whole familys will have one great tumb stone thing and it will be in the middle of a corn feild lol its supposed to bless there food tho... People here are really really nice!! espesially because i am a white girl alone.. its they see me and always smiling always trying to feed me.. when i started looking for apartments lots of teachers at my school offered me to live with them for free just because its a great honor for them to have me stay... When you invite someone out for dinner here you pay its not like in canada were you split tabs or ill pay tip you pay this its always the person who offers and dont even bother to try and offer to pay because they wont let you..!! and actaully there is no tipping here lol.. no tax which is nice.. I like to think of taiwan as the smartest/dumbest people in the world because they grilled to know so much of there own language and then theres english.. but man they can be sooooo slow and just like dumb at the same time lol its very weird anyways ive blabbed long enough haha .. have a good night everyone !!