Tuesday, 25 June 2013

making PAPERS

Seriously... is this the second day only? IT might be the third. Time is like nothing here. It takes about an hour to get anywhere even though Taiwan is like only a fraction of Cali, and even smaller than LA!!! woah... wait, maybe I should confirm that online.
is that NOT CRAZY?! Well to me it is. 
After traveling to so many cities of Italy alone it baffles me as to how I will do it in Taiwan. I definitely am going to give it a try after my internship is done. The transportation is a bit confusing from what I remember, but it is all about learning how to get around!!! Plus, I knew no Italian in Italy and here at least I know a frugal amount of Chinese, but I know some, none the less 


I came to a lot of these places when I was touring with AID Program, but like I expected, things are different. We went to the paper factory where we made fans last time and this time I was about 100 times more appreciative and enthusiastic about paper making. It is amazing that the Chinese invented this contraption and indispensable creation!
I am going to create a paper factory in the US and we are going to revive the appreciation for hand made paper and the amazing feeling you get when you can create and know the process of creating something from beginning to end. Ingenuity is hard to find today and thats what I want to bring back in what I do.

Monday, 24 June 2013

Just plane exciting!




Father, here, is examining sim cards that I will need to exchange in my phone so I can call peeps in Taiwan.

We're in Carl's Junior with 2 hours before I need to get on the plane. Perfect prep place. Used that restroom and downed a coffee here.










LETTUCE finally begin the summer adventure!!! Well, LETME I guess... since I'm not really going with anyone...
           Here is my dinner that I snuck into Carl's Juniors eatery. I ate ALL of it...just like this...plastic included. Yum. It was left over from me and dorothy's training apartment party food.
The last week was exhausting at UCLA. I was done with spring quarter but jumped right into Apartment Coordinator Training the week after. No break. Actually I quite enjoyed it other than the moments when it felt like I was kind of in that life sucking contraption that the "man in the black" from Princess bride was put in. We woke up to train at 8ish and then came back around 7pm...if you round it all up, we were kind of going through 12 hour sessions.
amazing.
I really did quite enjoy it though overall...somehow.
I am excited to be an apartment coordinator!!! woohoooo!!!
OK but anyway I went off topic of course... and it would totally happen within the first paragraph of my post -__-. look that was supposed to be a period after the face but it actually looks like that signiture mole of Marilyn Monroe's. Nice.
     Damn. off topic again.
Ok ...and we're back! This lettuce is brining us into the conversation of my new adventure. Salad is something you eat to cleanse your body after you eat a meal. All that heavy food, pasta, steak, whatever it is.



So some really good food that I got at the airport...only 4 bucks for all of this... 




Charger boxes in the airport?! cool 



Also I changed my seat from one of the middle seats to the isle seats and I got a seat right in the back isle and next to the bathroom. Boombaby! I talked to the lady next to me and she was from nashville. Not only that but she was the graduate engineer program's admissions person...from VANDERBILT. She told me take a visit and we became acquaintances/friends...I really want to live in Nashville now...music central. LIVE music central.