My Taiwan Adventure

Just finished my second week of training and it's gotten increasingly harder. I moved up from the kitchen to the front making drinks and it's a fast paced environment with even more information to memorize. Sometimes I feel like a bartender or a casino worker with the specific hand movements I have to make to pass the tests. It's also hard to memorize how to make drinks that customers don't order often. On my day off the other day I went to Danshui, an old port in the north of Taipei where the Dutch used to have a fort and an ancient Canadian missionary named Mackay started a college, hospital, and the first school for girls in Taiwan.  Here's a statue of Mackay: I had fun walking around eating traditional snacks and I strayed away from the tourist area to visit a Catholic Church. On the way I saw an old lady sweeping leaves around a small temple and she told me who the gods were inside. I honestly had no idea who they were from their n...

So Albert and I are going to open a bubble tea franchise in Mid-Michigan and I just finished my first week of training. Surprise! Going into it I felt pretty confident because I got through graduate school with my highest gpa yet. So I felt like I could do anything. That being said, I was a little nervous because of how hard Albert said it would be. Turns out he was right! But before that let me share some photos: My in-laws taught me how to peel and cut dragon fruit. This is what it looks like after you start peeling it. It reminded me of the eggs in Alien so I had to take a picture with it- face huggers creep me out. Here's what it looks like after you peel and cut it- It's beet red and the color is really strong. I bet it would stain, but it's incredibly yummy. I always want to have one when I'm back in Taiwan. Here's a couple of interesting signs. McDonald's here is promoting two new kinds of sandwiches with different colored buns. The black ...

I am back in Taiwan for two months to do some job training. This was my first time flying by myself on this route, and, surprisingly, it was overall very comfortable this time. (I bet it was because of my new pillow). I slept well for part of the first and longer flight, but going from Tokyo to Japan I felt like my body just crashed and I couldn't get comfortable sleeping no matter how much I tried. This seems to be at trend for me, though.  Here are the movies I watched on the plane: Justice League: Eh... but it's what I expected Phantom Thread: An unbearable movie about unbearable people and disfunctional relationships. I kept waiting for it to get better but it didn't. Star Wars Last Jedi: Pretty good. I love the porgs! What I didn't get was how some characters could survive exposed to space without some kind of suit. Half Girlfriend: I always gotta watch a bollywood movie on my way to and from Taiwan. I picked this one because I wanted a fluff movie, but ...