I couldn't sleep last night...

The month of October is just barely a week old, and so many exciting things have already happened. This past weekend I spent time up in Taipei (which I'll blog about later), and tomorrow I'm headed to down south to the beautiful beach town of Kenting, home to the lovely Taiwanese film Cape No. 7 (ok, so maybe the movie wasn't so great, but the soundtrack is awesome and it brings me some sweet nostalgia). As a result, I haven't been able to sleep much this week due to the excitement/stress of planning a trip for 10 people. But what can I say...who could resist this loveliness:

Went to bed at 1am last night and woke up at 3:19, finding that my dear roommate Lisa had fallen asleep while on her computer with the light on. I got out of bed and turned out the light. Then about 6am my mind decided to wake up and started racing. I've come to recognize this as stress, and decided that I should make a 'to do' list for everything I wanted to get done this morning before class at 1:30pm:

• read scriptures
• exercise
• do lesson plans
• go to the post office
• call Lex
• buy ice cream for my first graders
• buy conditioner/lotion for my trip
• download conference onto my iPod
• transfer money to my American account 
• take out the garbage (it's my turn this week)
• pack
• figure out snacks for the train ride tomorrow
• print of hostel info
• and CLEAN!

Hopefully I'll be able to get more of it done!

Wish me luck! And here's to wonderful vacations and lovely weather (it's cooled off a bit, at last!)!