My Favorite May Weekend

This past weekend was as close to perfect as any weekend has ever come for me. Friday night was a good meal out to eat with friends and then a really fun time at a local bar we frequent to celebrate a coworker's sister's birthday. Pretty standard Friday night after a long week.

Staying out late made Chinese classes on Saturday morning a little rough, but luckily we were all tired so we all got a little silly by the end to say the least- it's amazing what lack of sleep and trying to learn a foreign language will do to a person. Then that entire afternoon I spent out and about with two coworkers.

My one coworker, Kevin, has lived in Taichung for over 3 years and is completely fluent in Chinese. So of course we made him show us around for an afternoon! It was really nice because he can accomplish lots of little tasks for us much quicker than we can ourselves since he can communicate. I put minutes on my phone, made some stamps, got mango shaved ice (as delicious as it sounds), and bought new speakers for my computer/iPod. Such a success!

Saturday night we accompanied Kevin to a night market for some street food and people watching which is my favorite part about living in Asia. And after staying out late on Friday night, it was nice to be home by 10:30 after we had enough fried squid.

Sunday was the ideal icing on the cake of this weekend: pool day. We recently discovered a public pool that is pretty cheap near our school. Two coworkers and I got there at 11:30 and stayed for three hours or so. It was the perfect weather for a pool day: 85 and sunny. I finished up my weekend by watching a movie in my apartment with a bottle of wine. Who can beat that?!

This weekend leaves me completely recharged for Monday morning. Who wants to learn about geometry! Only three more weeks of learning children, then it's review for the finals. Oh how this year has flown by!