Yvonne and Judy

These are two girls in my 2A class. Judy, in the foreground, is wearing her school uniform. The girls' uniforms are pink, and the boys' (hold on to your hats, this will be shocking) are blue. Judy is also in another one of my classes (2B). I have a few students like that--it messes up my game. She's cute though, as most of my students are (I use the word 'most' quite deliberately.) Yvonne is VERY quiet, but one of those girls who gets perfect marks and has very high neatness standards as far as written work goes. It is funny to teach little girls like that, when I just wasn't one of them. "You actually USE erasers...?" As you can see, Yvonne = also very cute.

Wil's most recent purchase

Wil and I passed this store in a cab once, and we simply HAD to go and buy a mah-jong set. They even had a set with pictures of naked people on some of the tiles. I would have called it 'erotic', except that it wasn't, especially. Now, we just have to find someone to teach us how to play....

Tomb-Sweeping

These photos were taken from an MRT station (Xinhai--one stop away from Wanfang Hospital, which is our stop.) The first time I was in Taiwan, I tried trekking up into this cemetery just because I found the design of the tombs so intriguing. Not too respectful, I suppose, but here I am taking pictures...AND YOU ARE LOOKING AT THEM!!! I was bitten by so many bugs that I couldn't identify that I started to get really worried, so I didn't go too far. So, nowadays, I remain at a safe distance. 

Tomb-Sweeping Day

This photo finally got published. Like most things in my life, it involved much cursing and frustration. I have still not managed to publish the other ones, but I have not yet finished cursing....

Difficulties...

I have tried to post some photos of the cemetery near our house a couple of times now (why, yes, yes I AM morbid...) and have never had much success. So, just to let you know, we have not abandoned the blog--I have simply not come near it out of exasperation.