2 Months

I've been in Taiwan now for two months!  Everything is going pretty well, except for the fact that my school has me only teaching one class a week right now, that means I'm teaching 6 hours a week.  My contract guarantees 14 hours/week.  So if I don't get paid for 14hrs this week, dudes are going to get blasted.  This week was good, I taught kindergarden, TH3 (2nd graders) and TH5 (4th graders).  Most of them are really fascinated by my hairy legs, the kindergardeners pet my leg hair!  TH3 and 5 are really easy to deal with b/c they all listen well.  While I was running on Thursday, I ran through a film set or something, I must be living in a really good area!  This weekend, all I really did was go to Maokong Gondola, which was on Saturday.  Jennifer was tired on Friday, so I just listened to music (mostly Doom Metal).  What was interesting about the Gondola was the fact that it is exactly the same as any ski gondola!  It was the exact same size too!  The people in our gondola were freaking out because they were afraid of heights and the little boy that was with them was helping them out either, he was telling them about what was coming up ahead.  Jennifer and I got off at one stop and we went to the monkey trail, which went up to Monkey Mountain.  We were hoping to see some monkeys, but we saw squirrels instead, and everyone knows how much Jennifer likes squirrels :).  We then took the gondola up to the next stop and walked around.  We saw a temple and some tea houses.  We were going to go to the tea museum, but as luck would have it, it was closed by the time we got there.  We went to a tea house, they were really expensive for the local tea.  So I got some of the Japanese green tea.  It was pretty good.  But the thing I wanted most was a good beer.  This is really hard to find in Taiwan.  On the way back home, I wanted to find a bar/club that I had seen on the way back home from Tainan (the place is located around Zhongshan Junior High School MRT) but I couldn't find it.  Jennifer was really tired from walking all day, I was a little bit tired, but I could've looked for awhile.  Oh well.  Yesterday, Jennifer and I didn't do much of anything, we just watched TV and surfed the internet.  It is becoming harder and harder to get tv shows over the internet.  Maybe there are new sites that have popped up.  I did find out that Fender is making a David Gilmour Signature Series Stratocaster.  It debuts September 22nd and comes at a price of $3,999.99.  I'll have to look around to see if it is really worth it.  If it is, I have a lot of saving up to do.  Because this is something I really want.  I might have to start looking for extra work if that's the case.  I am thinking about giving private English lessons to people around my apartment.  I'll just have to send out a flyer.  Tchao