Tuesday, February 10th

Today I did a lot of research about names and numbers of different high schools and colleges in Taichung. Some are English speaking and some are not, and some are private and some are public.


Armando, Paul, and I walked down a street nearby and looked at the different little places for lunch. We decided on a place that had something like vegetarian sushi wraps. The wrap and some black tea was 39NT dollars, which is just over $1 US dollar… pretty rockin’! The wraps were delicious and the owner was very nice to us.

After lunch I started calling the schools I had researched in the morning. Some only spoke Chinese and I couldn’t talk to them =( and some spoke English a little bit and told us to email them information. One university seemed really interested and actually made an appointment with us!! YAY!!!!! I made my first appointment and sent my first business email… I’m a real FM! I’M A REAL FM!!!!! =) =) =) =)

When I got home from work I played Wii with my family. The usual—MarioKart, Wii Fit, and Wii Sports =) We played lots of bowling and tennis!!
There was a bunch of Taiwanese snacks on a table in the corner next to the couch. My host dad, Gary, brought them out and I tried a bunch of new things! Aside from some typical little cookies and pastry puffs, I ate my first kumquat and some weird seaweed-like stuff! I have become so adventurous in other countries O=)