Job Update

Jessie interviewed for a job with "Hess English School" yesterday evening. It went well but it seems she would probably end up with a 7pm-10pm shift. Which, if you know Jessica Anne Ulrich Soergel Manning....that is not going to fly.

She is interviewing today with another school which is a little farther out but are offering a day class with adults. Head to head it seems as though the smaller school will win out. Will see what they say and we'll keep you updated.

New Pictures

These are totally random but I thought I'd throw them up here anyway:

"God I hope this is chicken"

Here's a nice place to buy sweet potatoes

And here's our kitchen, right next to the front door. You can't see behind the curtain to the left because that's a window. Yep, there it is in all it's glory.

I told you they were random photos. I'd take more but it's still raining. Maybe tomorrow.

What You've All Been Waiting For!

Some random pictures for your pleasure:

Here's a shot of our flight into Taipei....hey, it was dark, what do you want from me?

Our Apartment:

Here's our theater room

Here's our bedroom/living room/refrigerator room/changing/sitting room/smoking lounge....And that's about it.

This is Jess standing in the rain while I order dinner at a take-out stand. It rained for three and a half days straight.

This is a shot from outside the Chiang Kai-Shek memorial. One of my favorite places in Taipei.

A Grand View of the Local Night Market w/ everything from Obama shirts, fake eyelashes to "Glorious American Pig Ribs"

Mission Accomplished

We finally and officially have an apartment. It's around 8 'pings' which translates to about 300 sq ft. Nice! No really, it's not bad at all. We have a little couch and a bed and a closet. I'll get some pictures up soon (don't I keep saying that?) of the new digs. By the way, recycling here is crazy. You have to put your trash in special blue bags that you can only buy from 7-11, your bottles go in a bag, your plastic whatever in another bag, your paper in another, and your "other" paper in yet another bag. All this has to then be carried down to the local garbage truck which comes at different times during different days in different neighborhoods. You know when he's near by the tune that he plays over a loud speaker. We mistook him for an ice cream truck. That's not ice cream. Anyway, we've yet to actually catch him. There's always tomorrow!

Taipei Apartments, Code Name: Trail of Tears

OK, our apartment adventure has come to an end.....or so I believe. We've seen about 12-15 different apartments, they've all sort of run together. All of which either have no bathroom or no kitchen. We thought we found one, but the landlord decided that since he didn't know who we were he might not want to rent to us. But, with a copy of our passport and a copy of the acceptance letter to my university he might rent to us. No thank you.

So we think we've found another place. We will go to sign the contract this afternoon after our trip to IKEA for all the necessities...One really neat thing is that what will be our new landlord is a Christian! That's an added bonus. It's maybe about 300 sq ft. so it's got plenty of room to stretch out. 

Once we get some things settle we'll throw some pictures up. Thanks for following us!