So.I have approximately three weeks until I leave, and everything seems to be falling into place.
Mr. Coleman has my blazer, and should soon be setting a date for me to be publicly "Blazered," as my friend Tiffany put it.
I have all my paperwork for the trip... plane ticket confirmations, passport, visa, insurance policies, school information, etc.
All in all, everything is coming together quite nicely! I have been talking to my host family through skype, and they have been talking to me about learning the language.
And that brings me to my present state.
Which consists of me armed with a pencil, linguanaut.com, and a myriad of printing paper. Said paper is covered in a sorry attempt to make my chicken scratch resemble certain characters in the Chinese "alphabet" and a few choice phrases. What's suprising is that i am, in fact, making progress.
I think my subconscious is starting to give off warning signals to my memory saying "hey! you! if you don't start retaining this, you'll be hurting later!!"
Kind of reminds me of Across the Universe.
You know, "Learn French. Learn French or die."
But back to the Taiwan preperations.
I've also made some Tennessee coin pins to trade once i get there.
I bought luggage.
And this whole this is getting very, very, tangible.
I can't wait!
Thanks for reading,
..Phoenix
8 comments:
I was mentioned!
that makes me smile...
So you should definitely work on that whole making progress thing, or I might help your subconscious beat on your memory...just for fun!
You are doing great, work hard and play harder.
(I'll make sure you take care of the latter)
*love you!
-Tiffany
Tangible...perfect word for this.
Mandee
Tell us more..tell us more. Is there a bullet train in Taiwan and what makes it go so fast. Thanks
Concerned follower of the Phoenix.
Do you think that that aspect (becoming apart of the family) will be harder for you in Taiwan?
I don't know a whole lot about the taiwanese culture but on some exchange forum I saw someone say that in the taiwanese culture it is hard to Idk...mesh with them ya know?
ahah
Yeah I have talked to mine some .My like them all equally blah blah blah....) They kinda just seem to mesh better with me, like I feel like they are a little more open and the daughters are my age and one is exchanging to AZ so the family will sorta have a feel for what I am going through.I can't wait to meet all of them though.
: )
So I hear there was a typhoon in Taiwan. Are you afraid of things like that?
Take lots of pictures! i would love to see what its like! - Jake W.
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