DA jiā háo zǎo ān!
This week was amazing and full of wet. WATER! It rained SO much! Another super typhoon hit the side of the island making the rain up north in Taibei intense, more than the normal, usual rain here. Before the downpour I got this photo that shows the 101 building and the sunset before the typhoon.
FUN FACT--> about talking with others in all the wind and the rain from the typhoon...you have to yell and you're constantly spitting rain out of your mouth so it basically turns into this fun experience of yelling and spitting or the person we are talking to being yelled at and spit on!
So my plans of taking pictures of what I’m up to here “in a day” were a little bit affected because it was just reallll inconvenient to get my camera out when I could barely open my eyes in all the rain! So this "day in my life" is missing a lot of what I do in any given day, but here's what one generally looks like for me and Sister Althoff:
So my plans of taking pictures of what I’m up to here “in a day” were a little bit affected because it was just reallll inconvenient to get my camera out when I could barely open my eyes in all the rain! So this "day in my life" is missing a lot of what I do in any given day, but here's what one generally looks like for me and Sister Althoff:
6:00 am: Wake up and Yùn dōng (exercise)! *not pictured for your convenience and partly because I forgot to take a photo.
8:00 am: Breakfast and personal studies! aka where the magic happens *my desk #bloggerlife
9:00am: Comp gospel study with my buddy SISTA ALTHOFF and....
10:00 am: Zhòng wén yán dōu shī jiān (Mandarin study!)
12:00 pm: QingKe! The Liang family invited us over for lunch <3 They make the greatest food- veg food for Sister Althoff and I! (yes, she is vegetarian too!)
12:30 pm: Find out that Liang DiXiong (Brother Liang) has an obsession with elephants and collects them from all over the world.
12:31 pm: Take a picture with the elephants.
1:30 pm: Head home for our weekly planning sesh (happens every Friday afternoon) but we stop for a photoshoot in the street.
5:00 pm: Dinner! Not pictured.
6:00 pm: At the church we meet with an amazing investigator named Aiko (Lin Xiaojie) and see this beautiful sunset O_o Taught Aiko for the first time about prayer, church, etc.!
6:50 pm: My shoe dies.
7:00 pm: Go finding/meeting people with Bonnie! She is our best friend.
9:00 pm: Go home, plan, get ready for bed, dance sesh, night time yoga, go to bed.
Extras from earlier in the week:
1. ZHONGQIUJIE KUAILE/ Happy Mid-Autumn Festival! A holiday where people do tiny barbecues and eat a lot of moon cakes- a dessert food with an egg in the middle. mmm hearty
2. Posted bathroom instructions haha
I’ll do “a day in the life” again some other time! THIS IS MY LIFE here in Taiwan! And I love it so much. It’s a mix of fun and weird and exciting and sometimes it feels like I am in a dream. I would not trade this experience for the world. I love this work!
I love all of you! Thanks for reading my random emails <3
Have a great week Dàjià!
<3333 xox
mó jiē měi