One Month

Well, I made it. I've been here in Taiwan for one month, from June 10th to July 10th. It has been both harder and easier than I thought. The language has been harder and so has the heat. Conversely, the living situation, work, and transportation have gone much more smoothly than I would have imagined. So far work is okay, I'm not very busy since they haven't given me much and for the most part I have to worry a lot about replacement parts for machines here. However, I still have lots of time to surf the Internet. I'm also excited since I recently spent an evening out by Taiwan National University. It was pretty cool, there are some huge night markets across the street with everything there including a small water park. It was cool since there was a lot of "renao" as the Taiwanese say-basically that means there was a lot of noise and flavor there in a good way. Most importantly there are real bars (i.e. not karaoke ones) in the area too. So I'll be spending some more time there.