Yay..I've officially moved to Kaohsuing! I decided to just move in with my friend Kim and her roomate Ryan. They had an extra bedroom so it all worked out great! Thus far I'm still living in Kim's room...waiting on Ryan to decide if he wants to keep his room or take the other, smaller one. I really don't care, I just want a bedroom and to not live out of a suitcase! But I'm very happy with this apartment, it has a full kitchen a family room and 2 bathrooms! It has a great view of the lake here.

Also, more good news they gave me a kindy class here, so I'm now working about 32 hours a week...which is what I wanted, but my schedule will be a full one. I've taught the kindy class 2 times thus far, and they are a handful but seem really great. It's a class of 20 students, so it's a little on the big side but again I think it'll just take some time! This past weekend was Moon Festival Weekend, so we had Monday and Tuesday off! So a group of us all went camping in a little town called Puli. We went river hiking (that is what the pic is from). That was an adventure...climbing up wet rocks to make it up to the waterfall was a bit terrifying at times..but well worth it! We also went kayaking on Sun Moon Lake, which was beautiful. We were meant to go paragliding but the weather wasn't cooperating so we never got to do that. That night we got to expierence an authentic Moon Festival party at someone's house. They had a pig roast, fireworks...the Taiwanese LOVE their fireworks!! They also, of course, had Karaoke with English songs...that was a hit of course. I think we half of their entertainment..I mean think about it a group of foreigners up there singing "Take me Home Country Roads"!! Now, the actual camping itself...was not so fun to say the least. The tent I was in caved in on us in the middle of the night, due to heavy rain and all of us along with our sleeping bags and everything else got soaked. I was not in such a great mood that whole night and next morning...the part that sucked was that we were stuck...we were camping on top of this mountain...all alone, so there was no where to go for dry sheltar! Ne who...me and Kim decided not to stay the next night..so we just hitched a ride on a stinky bus back to Kaohsuing, this stinky bus happened to be the absolute slowest bus EVER..so we were on this bus for about 6 hours, and the word stinky does not do this bus justice. It smelled like 10 day old cat urin....I almost threw up several times. Lucky Kim was sick...so she couldn't smell any of this. Ne who, all in all things are going great. I'm still adjusting to this new city, but I think I'll really enjoy it. I feel like I've had two different lives in Taiwan, one where I was bored out of my mind and I think this one will be busy, busy, busy!! Ne who, I hope all is well in the west. Remember to stay in touch!