Taichung, Taiwan

Graduation speech for My AWESOME 6 th Graders First of all I just want to say I am so proud of you! Congratulations!!!! You did it! I am so happy for all of you and so proud of all your hard work! However, I am so sad because I will miss all you so much! I had fun teaching you, licking your elbows, eating lunch together, watching your faces as you tried my American candy and just laughing. I always left class happy! You all made my life bright and sunny! But now you are moving on to Junior High School! Think of your life as a book and you have just finished writing one huge chapter, but there so many more pages left to fill. Junior High School is the next chapter! When I was your age I was a terrible reader, a bad speller, very very very bad at math and honestly I just did not want to do my school work. But even though I was very bad at school my mother knew I was made to be so much more. See my mother had huge expectations for me. An expectation is the belief that somethin...

I got to experience a Taiwanese wedding. Oh wait no I didn't!!! Because in Taiwan only close family is allowed to go to the wedding. I was invited to the reception though. There are three receptions one for the Bride's family and friends, or more like the Father's friends. Another one is for the Groom's family and friends and then the last reception is for the Groom's and Bride's friends. I found this strange because in the States wedding reception is for the new united family and friends to celebrate this new marriage. Anyways the reception was held at a famous seafood restaurant which looked like it was made purposefully for wedding receptions. The meal was about 10 courses of seafood. However, the only seafood I can stand to eat is shrimp, so I was grinning and swallowing a lot of it trying not to let the taste get to me. However, the Jumbo Shrimp was amazing! Besides the food the only other thing that really happened is that the Bride and the Groom, with the...