Come Back to Taiwan!
Today is crunch day, when everything is due. Fortunately I'm am on schedule and feeling fine. (=
Part of that is because I got an email from Kathy saying that Pong (Taiwanese housemate whose family is always in the apartment) will be moving out, because we have two new young female English teachers moving in. So, I am SOOO much more excited about going back to Taiwan to live with 6 peers. I think the whole Pong, culture, mess, language, angry issue was a real reason I wasn't excited about moving back. I've come to realize that a sense of 'home' that is a safe and comfortable place is the key to living in any culture. That makes me much more ready to face Taiwan. When cockroaches invade my safe space, well that's something else. It will make me a stronger woman.
I wrote the names of some of my favorite students on a little piece of paper and pinned it up on my bulletin board. Whenever I think about leaving Halifax in a week, and feel sad, I think about how rewarding it is to see them every day, and how much I want to get to teach them again.
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The boys in the picture are celebrating ghost month. As I discovered yesterday... "To insure that wandering ghosts will not disturb the peace and prosperity of the living over the ensuring 12 months, many Chinese burn copious amounts of paper money and set up tables laden with food during the seventh month of the lunar year - ghost month." I mean, I've seen the money burning before, but when I tried to get into my favourite resturant, I had to weave through a maze of 6 fire pots and two big tables piled with boxed and canned food. All the employees were standing around "helping". I had to wonder what they were thinking- does the young generation in Taiwan really believe in all of it?
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