Four Months Left

I have been here for almost seven months now; I can’t believe how fast the time has went! It seems only yesterday I was going to the first orientation and meeting all of the other exchange students…

February was a thoroughly uneventful month for me. The Chinese New Year was on February 18^th (the same day as my birthday) but my then current host family didn’t celebrate it because they are Christian. I was a little disappointed because I had been really looking forward to experiencing it. On the 19^th we went down a little south of the island (to Haulien) to visit my host mothers family. We stayed there for three days in which time we visited Toroko George and saw the movie Ghost rider. Unfortunately, I have been having some problems with my external hard drive and am not able to get any pictures off of it to post!

The week of February 18^th school was not in session, it began again the following week. I enjoyed have a little bit of time off and even got to sleep in a couple days!

On March third I moved to my third host family. Here I have two host brothers and my host parents. My younger brother is 16 and lives at his school from Monday through Friday so I only get to see him on weekends. My older host brother is 23 and he is currently doing mandatory military service so I get to see him once every couple of weeks. I am liking my current host family a lot and they seem to like me as well. They speak Chinese with me all the time (something I have a problem getting people to do because they all want to practice their English or refuse to accept that a white girl can speak Chinese) so it has been improving exponentially!

School has been pretty regular, I usually have the morning to practice Chinese and to get unfinished things finished. In the afternoons I go to class with the other exchange student in my school. We take art, PE, home economics, computer class, living technology and… I think that’s it. I have also asked for calligraphy class so hopefully I will be doing that again soon!

Thursday nights I take a water colour class with another exchange student where I am learning how to paint. I will have my second class tomorrow night where we will start painting so you can expect to see a masterpiece soon! (Please don't hold me to this though)

I have no other news for you but when I do I will be sure to post it! I’ll try to find a couple pictures to put up with this post but since I am having problems with my external drive I’m not sure how many I can find. I miss you all lots and I’ll be seeing you before you can say 我愛台灣!

Much Love;
Karly
xoxoxoxo

P.S. My internet connection at home (where I am right now) is very slow so I'm not sure if I'll be able to get any of the pictures up, I'll try my best but I think they may have to wait until the next day that I bring my laptop to school.