Exciting things: The Purdue girls are coming to visit for a week or so starting next Friday. It's a 3-day holiday weekend here, so I'm taking the 4 days off to have the whole week off and we're going to go wander around the east coast and fit in as much outdoors fun in the way of hiking/surfing/rafting maybe and then on the other side tea houses/temples/moon cake eating (It's the moon festival!) and all the other stuff in between. I'm excited to see them and also for a week off.
Ironically, they are not my first visitors! I thought they would be, but for 2 weekends in August I had a former RC coworker show up with her friend from home. They are teachers in British Columbia somewhere between Seattle and Vancouver and had been working at a summer camp in South Korea for a monthish and wanted to travel to China before they went home. Unfortunately, you have to get your Chinese visas back home and they missed that part, soooo to Taiwan it was I was happy for that, and it was good to see someone I knew prior to April of this year. We did a bunch of wandering around Taipei and getting stuck in the rain - story of life here.
waiting for the rain to end..to go to the waterfall!! 
I have more visitors coming in October...more on them later :)
Other exciting things? Last Monday, at the same time the east coast of the States was being ravaged by Elena, we had a "typhoon day"- no school! We also had...no typhoon! haha. It hit further south and turned toward China, so the weather here wasn't really bad- a bit breezy and there was rain in the area for a few days there, but nothing major in Taipei. It was like being sent home early from school for the blizzard that's going to hit back home, and the no snow happening. Anticipation is everything.
Random observations lately include:
I am not a claustrophobic person generally speaking, and I've lived in plenty of small spaces for a long time, but I have a much better appreciation for space than I ever have in the past.
Working with 3 year old girls all day, makes you wonder what you were like at 3, 4 and 5 (both at home and at school...)
Whenever I get around to going back to school, I am really excited for that point in time.
Father's Day was 8-8 here. The word for 8 is "ba". The word for father is "ba ba" so 8-8 = ba ba = Father's Day. Nice right?
2 recently read good articles:
NY Times, S. Jobs article stolen from Amanda, thank you
Fast Company, Food Prices causing uprisings? Still love my Fast Company articles...just online now
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