Must say that it has been a while since my previous post. After reading Hong, CC, and Melinda's blogs, I feel bad about not keeping my friends updated about the life I have now. So from now on, if I could, I'll post more blog articles here, not just in Chinese(my other Chinese blog), English too! : P
Everything is almost settled down now. My life, my apartment, my job, and my volunteering work are all on the right track now. The great part of this is that I get to stop complaining because now I am used to stay with this busy schedule. But the horrible part is that I didn't get to speak English or write in English anymore. That is the scariest part for me since without using any foreign language; one can easily just forget everything they've learned/used before. Every time what I read on Hong or CC's blog, "their English is just like the natives" is the thought that crossed my mind. Look at the sentences and the way they describe things, they're just great. This pushes me to keep on learning and to try to speak more with the English speaker in Taiwan. Hopefully this would help me and the one I spoke to would feel that my English is not bad at all.
This month, everything is going well. My family members are all doing well, except that two of them had a trip to Japan and I didn't get to go with them. : { My dad is doing well, but his left leg was injured. The medical therapy doesn’t help too much, so now he is trying the water therapy, this means he goes to the swimming pool and walks in the swimming pool for 1 or 2 hours. We were kind of worried about him, but it seems like now he has found a way to cure himself. What we can do is being supportive and be there for him when needed.
My job is well also. All the projects are not started yet; probably I'll be super busy from late April. After having staff work progress evaluation with my boss last week, we discussed what I need to do this year and also make up my goal that I'll take an English test and some technical license exams before August. Well, that's going to be a tough task for me to overcome, secretly I am praying that I'll pass them. Secretly... Hopefully...
The apartment is almost settled down. Now, I have 2 new roomies who share my front yard with me, they're cat# 1 ( the white cat who loves meowing all the time), and cat#2 (the yellow cat who doesn't like me too much, but always sits in front of my door, kind of guarding my house). Both cats are street cats, not quite sure that whether they're born as street cats, or they were abandoned by someone. Anyway, they like me now (that's what I think and hope) and ask for 2 meals a day. Every time when anyone of them sees me, their reaction is like “Meow..... Meow...." I never have a cat in my life, only dogs are the ones we raise and live in our house together. So.... not quite sure what the “Meow..... Meow...." means. Is it good or bad??? I must be honest to say that I have no clues at all. However, cat#1, cat#2 and I live peacefully together, except that recently cat#1 really wants to get into my apartment and I always try to stop this happening. Last night, I went to the 24-hour pet store to get a 5kg cat food package and it surprised me that the animal foods are so expensive. Hopefully, cat#1 and cat#2 would've realized how much I want to be friends with them through the very expensive cat food I fed them. : {
So pretty much that's the new update of my current life. Everything is normal like what happens in your life. But mine is a little bit different than yours because that's Angela's life. Everyone thinks his/her life is better than others’, isn't that right?
PS: I found a really good drink, which may only be served or sold in Taiwan, named bubble milk. Since I don't drink tea or coffee anymore, the tea store in Taiwan has another idea. They put the pure milk with buttle tea's buttle together, and it does taste pretty well. You might want to try next time when you stop by a tea shop in Taiwan! The chinese name of the bubble milk is "珍珠撞奶." Try it! I know you would like it as I do. ; P
