Last weekend I moved for the second time. I now live at my last host family. I now have started my last semester at language school. I now have less than 100 days left in Taiwan. It is indescribably sad – but I am not allowing myself to be sad. I am going to make my last days the best of my days in Taiwan. And so far everything seems like wanting to give me the best days too.
As I said, I just moved to my third host family, and even though I have only stayed at their house for a week now, I already like them a lot. I have three sisters where of one of them now lives in England. The two others live at home with my host mom, my host dad, and me: one together with her husband (Lucy), and another (Ellie), age 18, who was an exchange student to Germany last year.
At my first weekend at their house Ellie, some of her classmates and I had lots of fun making food. I was really happy, as I finally got to use an oven and therefore had the opportunity to make cake (most houses in Taiwan do not have ovens – only a microwave, if you are lucky). So I made apple-pie for everybody to eat, as Ellie already new this cake from her exchange in Germany.
My sister Ellie (the far left) and her classmates
This weekend I went with Jane and Chelsea (the two other exchange students at my school) to my host sister Ellie’s school festival. We got some talented kids there two draw a picture of us together, and they did a really good job!
Later that day we went to the Global Chinese Golden Chart, which is a music award event that was held in Taipei Arena. Chelsea, Jane and I had the time of our lives watching one hot, famous, talented Taiwanese performer followed by another. Below is a link to a part of what was sent on television.
I have planned to keep this stream of good moments keep flowing over me, and with my lovely new family and my lovely friends I think there is a good chance, that the stream will keep flowing.
I love Taiwan
Julia :)
