Wednesday morning, Catherine and Leighnae took us out to a local breakfast spot, where we had hash browns, scallion pancakes, fried turnip cakes, and omelets with bacon and chicken. I had orange juice and Tom had "fruit" flavored milk. All that for $7 American!!!
Then, we met with the language institute director, Yu-Mei, and the teachers who would be working with us in our American Sports class starting next week, Bin and Elaine. We are going to have 24 children between first and third grade. I was pretty nervous for this meeting; I usually develop my curriculum very differently than this, so I wasn't sure how they would react to our plans, but they seemed happy, so we'll see what happens!
Later, we visited Yasmin's English class for young elementary school children. They also interviewed us and were very perplexed by the color of my eyes, so we decided to call it "blue green." I am also considered to be blonde by their standards, which is interesting, too.
That afternoon, Catherine took us to the cultural center and national art museum, which are right across the street. They both had an interesting mix of modern and traditional Taiwanese art, and they're both free.
In the evening, we went out to dinner with Ruby (who came to Cambridge-Ellis a few years ago), Fran (who will be teaching at CES this upcoming year), Catherine, and Tiffany. They brought us to the restaurant that first invented bubble tea, which has now spread around the world.
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| The bubble tea was very tasty! |
Then, we went to Ruby's beautiful home where they told us all about some of the wonderful places in Taiwan that parents have signed up to take us to. Can you believe that? The families actually volunteer to take us sightseeing, even to some places that are 2 hours away!
I've never heard of bubble tea.
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