Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all my friends and family! I'm sure Christmas has come and gone back home in the states and I wish I could say the same goes for here but not so much. The stores are still decorated and they are still playing those every cheerful Christmas tunes....everywhere. Many of you know that under normal circumstances I'd be fine with this but here, it just seems so out of place. I'm ready for it to come down and life to be back to um, normal.
Christmas night was fun. I went with John to his co-workers home and she cooked a pretty amazing spread. I had my first Christmas dinner at almost midnight and we had a secret Santa gift exchange. Santa even made an appearance and instead of me sitting on his lap, he sat on mine. I got a lovely guitar that I'm going to teach myself to play (I will probably invest in lessons when I come home to the states in July/August) and two pet fish. Herman and Harriet.
Katie, my friend from back home, just arrived yesterday morning and it was so nice to see a familiar face. We are planning on going to Taipei 101 for New Years and then Friday morning heading to the east coast of the island for a weekend of adventure and touristy stuff.
I'm also in the process of finding more work...in another part of Taipei. I've come to the conclusion that Jhongli isn't my cup of tea and am going to check out some other areas in the next week or two. I'm realizing there is a whole lot of Taiwan out there so the sky is the limit...but it does sort of depend on where I can find a job.
I'll update next week when I get back. Happy New Year to all. Please be safe and I'll see you all in 2010.
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