Lars learns Chinese!: Finished 3rd term!

I've finished my third term! Wohoo!

The final tests last week went ok. It was a lot of pressure having to memorize texts and dialogues, do homework and reviewing, and most of the time actually feeling quite tired of studying. The vocabulary and grammar the last weeks have been escalating, and I know it still needs a lot of reviewing even though the term has ended. That said, I still feel I keep up with the progression, and look forward to continue study after a couple of weeks. Before next term starts, I still have a written and spoken test coming up next week. This is the tests related to the CLC-scholarship. We are eight students competing over four scholarships. 6000NT/month for six months. It is a hard competition, taken into account the C-level students (that includes me) will get the same test papers as D-level students. This means we might get questions from 10 chapters or so, that we haven't studied yet. Anyway, I'll have a look at those chapters and memorize some new vocabulary for the spoken test, and we'll see how it goes!

Roommate Lizard

A few weeks after I moved to Tainan, a little lizard decided to become my roomate. He likes spiders and ants, but is a little shy. Every now and then when I come back home, he's crawling over the floor or alongside the wall. One day he was on the floor, I also discovered a spider on the wall. I picked up the spider and placed in from of my lizard, and less than a second later the spider had become lizard-food. Any name-suggestion for him? As for now I'll just call him Lizard.

My roommate. Lizard has been faithful for more than a month now ^_^

In my opinion some nice decorations! Norwegian trains are mostly red,
but it wouldn't hurt to decorate with some paintings like these :)

Templeactivities and firecrackers
It's several temples close to where I live, and one quite big one which every now and then hosts different kind of ceremonies. I attended one last week and recorded some of the activities with my phone. There's also a picture from my landlord showing some of the action. Most recent ceremony was this saturday morning. I don't know what it was for, but it woke me up around 6 or 7am with heavy fireworks lasting for several minutes, then only to have a short break before another set of explosives was fired up. Even though it's loud at times, I'm totally ok with it. An interesting part of the culture in Taiwan.