Another week gone by

So another week has gone by and here is what has happened in the last week.  Last Wednesday, I bought Rosetta Stone, the online edition for Mandarin.  With the online version, I get access to all 3 different levels and my subscription is for 12 months.  I think that it is a very good deal!  $300 for a year!  So far, it is pretty good.  However, the next day my mac died.  I ended up taking it to a company that does mac repairs.  I walked 3 miles to find it and it wasn't very hard to find, I was actually lucky to find it on the first try because from the outside it looks like an office building.  Even when I went inside and the guard told me to go to the 3rd floor, I was still a little skeptical.  But everything went well, except for the fact that I lost all of my data.  Lame.  SO after that I went to an electronics store and I bought an external hard drive so I can back up all of my data.  Why didn't I do that earlier? So I fixed my computer and everything is going swell!  On Friday, Jennifer and I went out to dinner at our favorite dumpling place.  It was soooooo goood!!!  On Saturday, we did not do much during the day, we veged out.  But, we were planning on going to a Mongolian folk music concert, however, we didn't buy our tickets before hand, so only the expensive tickets were left.  So instead, we tried going to the Hyatt to see if it had any Western beers, nope.  Then, we walked to Taipei 101 and had dinner at a food court nearby and wandered around outside while looking at some shops.  Sunday was a lot of fun because we went to the beach!  On our way to the beach, we ran into a fellow teacher and friend Graeme, from South Africa, and his group of friends.  We asked if we could come along and he said the more the merrier!  So we joined his group and we went to a beach called Baishawan, which means "white sand."  But don't be fooled, the sand was not white, it was dark and there was trash everywhere, most likely from the recent typhoon.  It was very windy, so I took the initiative and built a wall to protect us from the sand and other people helped me too.  I found a chair, but it broke when I tried to sit on it.  At the end of the day, we went to a shop on the beach and drank a beer each while watching the sun go down.  Then Jennifer and I went back to Dazhi and looked for a place to eat.  We were disappointed, but we would've been happier had we known what the menu said.  Oh well.  This week nothing big to report.  Started a new unit with my classes.  I am registering for the US Foreign Service Test.  Thats all for now.