你好大家！

Well I thought for the last post I'd post the pictures I've taken so far to give a chance to the people who don't have facebook to see them.

Anyways, it's been awhile since I've posted about what's been going on. I also lose track of who I've told things to/what I last told on here, so if I repeat some things sorry about that.

So I have officially gotten back into school mode and I'm lovin' it. It's definitely a lot of work, but I already feel like my Chinese is getting a lot better. 3 hours is a long class period, but it goes by pretty quick surprisingly. Today was my third day of class and I already had a chapter test. We learn a chapter about everyday 3 days which is awesome. Vocabulary tests are usually the other two days, and than we practice grammar for an hour and than work on our speaking the other hour usually and than the last hour is for testing. It's pretty intense, but I know I will learn a lot.

The gym is right across the street from the Mandarin Training Center which is nice, so I get up around 9:30, chat with friends and fam online for awhile, do some homework, and than I take the free shuttle bus from my campus and take that right to the main campus at 12:15. I go workout for about an hour, take a shower, and go find a place to eat in ShiDa and then head to class. That's basically what I do everyday I have class. I like the routine. After school we usually go find somewhere else to eat and fart around downtown Taipei for awhile, than come back home and do more homework and drink tea! :)

So this weekend...Friday we went to the biggest night market in Taipei which is called Shilin. I posted some pictures of that. That was the one with the puppies and the game room and everything. That was a blast. I went with Tuukka, Emilia, Alex, and Alex's friend Sanna who was visiting from Singapore. After the night market we tooled around in DunHua and grabbed a beer at a bar downtown. Saturday, I didn't do much, I did some laundry which takes forever here. The dryer is horrible at drying, and if you try to airdry anything it gets wetter. Very humid in Taiwan. Also, it seems like everyone wants to use the washer and dryer so you have be on top of changing it out from the washer to the dryer or else it gets thrown onto the ground and gets dirty again, pretty annoying. Saturday night Alex, Sanna, and I went to a Hawaii themed restaurant in a mall in the rich part of town and grabbed a bite to eat. I don't know how many of you have heard of the hotel chain W but the Hotel W Taipei opened up recently and it has an awesome view from the top, so we went up to the top of that and checked out the view for awhile. Pretty good weekend.

Last night was one of the best nights here yet. It was Tuukka, Filip and I just hanging out in our room doing homework and stuff and we were just laughing our butts off the whole night, it was hilarious. We were just laughing at everything... I don't know we were just cracking up at everything, it was nice to get a bellyache from laughing so hard, it's been awhile. Once again, I have some pretty awesome roommates. Who knows where I would be without them! We have a blast together.

Oh, some other pet peeves I thought of lol

-Taiwan is a super clean country, but you can't find garbage cans anywhere! Seriously, you have to walk miles before finding a trash can, it's unbelievable!

-If someone takes a dump in our room, it rots like pure crap forever. We walk in and you are just engulfed by crap smell. Fricken sucks lol.

Man, I had thought of a bunch but now I can't remember them. If I do I'll post them lol, they make me laugh.

Kyle