Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Last few weeks in Taipei.

I can't believe we only have two more weeks in Taipei! I finished teaching on August 14 and Alan has two more weeks. Right after Alan finishes, we hop on a plane to Jakarta, Indonesia to start our 3 weeks of traveling. We will spend a couple days in Jakarta, exploring the city. We already have a gracious host on Couchsurfing.com to take us in...he was even nice enough to say we could stay with him the night we arrive--our plane LANDS at 1:30 AM and with immigration and getting baggage, etc we won't get to his place until close to 3.

After Jakarta, we plan to visit Bali and the Dili Islands. They look like some of the most incredible beaches I have ever seen and have great scuba diving! I'm going to get my JR PADI certification bumped up to a full diving certificate and Alan is going to get certified as well. It will be nice to get out of living in a huge dirty city (even though i love you taipei!) and spend some time on some beautiful beaches.

Since pictures are more interesting than writing, I'm going to post some pics with captions to show you what we have been up to the past few weeks.


This is a video I took of Sean, Ryan and Max singing "Take Me Out To The Ballgame" on our last day of school. I though it was so adorable I just had to share! They really got into this song, as you can see.


Arthur (Captain Hook), Ben (Chief) and Oscar (Peter Pan) after our play.


Alan and I with my student Wade and his mom Nancy.


With some friends at a beach about an hour outside of Taipei City.


Teacher Darren with a cutie from our school Tin Tin--hiding behind her monkey!


With my Taiwanese co-Teacher Mia. Such a lovely lady...i will miss her.


Sylvia! Check out those chubby cheeks and dimples!


Minnie, Natasha and Sylvia on the last day of school.


Out with some friends in Taipei. Juliana and I doing the Asian "victory" pose!


Alan and Kyle doing the V. Doesn't Kyle do the best impression of a cute Taiwanese girl?


Kyle, me and Juliana


The girls, minus me. I was taking the picture.