Saturday, February 7th

• Work
o Xiao Paul got me and Armando soy milk and sausage dumplings for breakfast
o We met Niki at the office and had a meeting with some lady and dude who’s going to help us find Community Impact projects
o When they left, we had a team meeting and shared stuff about ourselves, created team goals, and set up our office a little

o For lunch we went to a restaurant that had tons of food set out for you to pick what you want, and the four of us got all different foods to share
o Then we got SIM cards and my phone got set up! Yay!
• Armando and Paul came over, where we met more of my host cousins (but ones that don’t live next door); one is named Winny and I don’t know her sister’s name; we all danced and played games
• After dropping Armando off, Paul came back and we played basketball with my host cousins, and sisters; the teams were me and Paul versus Linda, Jennifer, Winny, and her sister… haha! Pretty even, actually!
• Paul left and I had a dance party in my room with the girls… so fun! They showed me dance moves and I showed them dance moves… lots of laughs =)
• We went to rent a movie but didn’t find anything
• I met my host cousin Julie who is Christine’s daughter/Baby’s sister, and I think she’s 24 years old. She works in Taipei during the week and she comes home and lives with Christine on the weekends. She speaks English the most out of my family, but she is not fluent and still learns every time we try to communicate
• For dinner, I went to a night market with my cousins, my sisters, and Christine
o We went to a restaurant where we ate rice cooked in a tasty sauce with a little hard boiled egg and some sliced mushrooms
 Some of them ate soup with noodles and squid… but I can’t do the whole ‘octopus’ or ‘squid’ thing yet…ew
o Then when I thought we were leaving, we went to another restaurant where we got shrimp and clams with a cooked egg on top of it and all sorts of jelly-like sauces
o I was so full, and thought we were leaving… and we went to ANOTHER restaurant! One thing I’ve realized is that whenever I think we are done, there is ALWAYS more food!
 They know I like sweet foods, so they took me to this third place to get hot water (soup) with soft tofu-like things and tapioca balls. By American standards it wasn’t sweet, but I think by Taiwan standards it was! It was pretty good, but I don’t really like tofu =(
o On the way back to the cars we passed a stand with chicken skin, hearts, stomachs, livers, and feet… as well as duck heads! Yuck! They tried to get me to eat some of it, but I said no because 1) I was ssoo full 2) I didn’t have my camera…. And DUH, 3), EW!
• When we got home I painted my nails with my cousins
o Christine used to paint nails as a job so she wouldn’t let me do my own, haha, and she painted my fingers and toes
• I met my brother Jay-24, who lives on the fourth floor of our house but who I never see… he is learning to cut hair