Yesterday I got a letter.
A real letter.
From Taiwan.
And...it made my day.
I had forgotten that I'd even given my students my mailing address, but lo and behold, Miss Madline sent me a real live letter. Well, maybe not live.
And like Marcel's madeleine, this letter triggered a whole slough of memories. Who wouldn't like that?
So I thought I'd make a list commemorating the greatest memories I have of Taiwan that I can think of at this moment in time. And this is in no meaningful order whatsoever.
- playing basketball in the rain and getting huge blood blisters on my feet
- my first kiss
- teaching my students how to play baseball and American football (the latter was hilarious)
- hikes with Gloria
- talks with Fenny
- our unofficial book club
- Temple trips to Taipei, including hot chocolate and fried dumpling runs
- my many scooter mishaps
- classroom pranks
- being pranked
- Secret Santa
- school dances
- pinatas
- making horcata with left-over rice
- bingshas from Hello Kitty
- dong gwa neo nais (I'm craving these like none other!)
- Thanksgiving on the roof
- naked speedo man
- the bike trail
- "training" for a 10 k that I never did run (in my defense, my knee started to hurt to much to really run on it)
- cute little Taiwanese kids in their cute little clothes doing peace signs for pictures
- strawberry milks!!!!
- the rivers
- mosquitos (yuck)
- Captain Recycling
And....
....I'm especially grateful that I taught my fifth graders how to write letters because now I get to reap the rewards!
Here's to Taiwan and all its goodness!
