I met up with my friend Isaac today, who I haven't seen since he stayed with me for a week in Boston. He took me out to a fancy tea house called "Rose House" and we got tea and a light lunch while we sat around catching up and talking about English Teaching. He works at a cram school and works with kids, so he had some pointers for me. After that we went shopping at a "Everything is 39 Taiwan Dollars" store and I got some cheap stuff, it was cute.
Isaac at the Rose House.
I got Maple Tea and Isaac got Rose Tea.
Then I met up with David in Jing Mei, and he took me back to Shih Hsin University, where I spent my first four months in Taiwan. It was a total blast from the past but it was so cool. We went to "Mint" for dinner, a little shanty restaurant that serves 'Italian' food (i.e. spaghetti), which was my favorite place to eat dinner when I was here last time. Then around 8:00pmish we drove up Mao Kong on his scooter, a nearby mountain that has a pretty hot view of Taipei. The air was a little hazy unfortunately, but it was a good temperature so we sat out overlooking the city at a little coffee stand for a couple of hours and chatted. Best caramel macchiato I've ever had on a mountain, I must admit. It was wicked fun driving up and down a steep angle on the back of a scooter, particularly with all of the twists and turns and not knowing what's around the corner. Sometimes I was literally sliding forward in my seat on the way back downhill, I had to press my heels into the foot hold on the scooter to keep from pushing David off the seat in front of me.
Classic David.
His Hazelnut Latte, my Caramel Macchiato, and our coffee cake!
I'm off to school tomorrow, probably my last chance to really work on decorating my classroom before I start school on Tuesday. Monday is our teacher orientation day. Here goes nothing, right? And how am I supposed to make from scratch a calendar for the kids to do calendar time in the morning? Well, that's my big project for tomorrow. Oy vey.
Ciao!
Tiff
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