I just realized that it’s been a year (and a couple of days) since I first came to Taiwan and fell in love with the island. I first came here last October 13, 2010, and I left October 24, 2010. It was my first time traveling alone to another country. What I loved about that trip was how I was able to go to most of the places I set out to go to all by myself. Sure, there were times when I wish I could have someone with me. Someone to share my experiences with, as well as someone to take pictures of me. Anyway, I just can’t believe that time really passes by so quickly. Back then, I still had a sem left in senior year – I was to do my thesis, graduate, etc. Now, I’ve accomplished all that and more. Wow!
Today has been another good day for me. The day started with my friend giving me a wake-up call in the morning. I thought that he would stop after 1 call, but he was so persistent and he kept calling that I eventually forced myself to get up.
I bumped into 柏木 and 瑪麗雅 on the way up to class, and we were talking about something funny when we got out of the elevator that I was laughing before I entered the classroom. The teacher said that she knew I was already there because she heard my laugh. Hihi, oops!
We were answering some exercises on this grammatical structure, and my partner and I had the wrong answer. I apologized to him because I was the one who told him the answer (but really, he could have thought about the answer as well) and then the teacher jokingly said, “You gave him the wrong answer, huh!” to which I replied, “Oops!”
柏木, who was sitting beside me, then turned to me and said something along the lines of, “the smart Therese made a mistake?” to which I replied, “That’s because I’m sitting next to you!” It took a few minutes for my comeback to sink in, so when it finally did, he burst out laughing and everyone looked at him. We had to explain to the whole class. The teacher said to 柏木, “Look at how bad of an influence you are!” HAHAHA!
After class, I went with some of my classmates to this Malaysian restaurant (Bo Bo Cha Cha) in front of our school for lunch. I ordered the chicken with coconut rice (80NT), and it was delicious! It reminded me so much of Philippine cuisine because it came with kamatis (tomato), pipino (cucumber), and dilis (anchovy). These are some of the common Philippine side dishes as well. Yuuum!
Over lunch, one of our American classmates said to me, “If you tell me that you’re American, I would believe you!” referring to the fact that I can speak good English. Hihihi, I’m flattered. Although, he shouldn’t even be all that surprised anymore. Most Filipinos spend their academic lives in classes being taught in English. At least that’s how I was brought up. From grade school all the way to university, most of my classes were taught in English. The only exceptions were Filipino (language) classes, and other Philippine history classes. I can honestly say that there are a lot more Filipinos out there who can speak better English (better accent? LOL) than me.
When lunch was over, we rode the bus to go to Yongkang Street (永康街) to look for the snowflake ice (雪花冰) dessert place. There were 2 stores there, one was outdoors and the other indoors. We decided to go for the indoor one because it was drizzling a bit. We ordered the Fresh Fruit Mix Snowflake Ice Mango Flavor (超級綜合芒果雪花冰) and the Matcha Green Tea with Red Bean Snowflake Ice (宇治抹茶雪花冰). The former costs 150NT, and the latter 140NT. They were delicious! I love snowflake ice dessert! I still prefer the one I had over at Taizhong (台中) because it was sweeter (heh!) but this isn’t far behind.
We walked around for a bit after that, and then the boys left. I was left with the 2 girls, and we decided to go to Dante Coffee (丹提咖啡) to sit down and to kill time. Again, we talked about a lot of things while drinking our drinks. I ordered the Volcano (冰淇淋火山) which is coffee topped with vanilla ice cream! Yummy! 璱琦 ordered the Cafe Mocha (摩卡咖啡) and I don’t know what 瑪麗雅’s order is called. When we had finished killing time, we rode the bus and separated ways.
Mine
璱琦's
瑪麗雅's
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