One year

Me and my girlfriend went to a concert. I wonder if they though:
"Hmm, where to hold this concert... let's occupy the road!"

Wow, one year away from home (except from a couple of weeks in March). My Chinese is still not perfect, but there's no doubt it has improved a lot. The amount of time spent on practising, reviewing homework and so on varies from time to time, but the time is usually spent on something good. The last weeks I've spent a lot of time with my girlfriend, and even though we do speak a lot of English together, she still teaches me a lot of Chinese, Taiwanese and Taiwanese culture. When I compare to Norway, the difference in culture is big. I've mentioned it before, but every now and then when I walk the streets and meet people, I get reminded of it again and agin. Sometimes I try to adapt, but quite often I just do things the way I'm used to. People in Taiwan are generally speaking very careful. It's often heavy rain on the island, but today we were also told there would be no classes due to the rain. Nothing wrong about that, and I believe there is good reasons for this carefulness if you look at history and earlier experiences with bad weather. Edit: A few hours after they announced school is closed, it's not even raining anymore. I see why you should avoid driving in the mountains during heavy rain, but what is the danger in a city? If you can explain this to me, this fear of rain, please leave a comment.

Mudslides is one of the reasons why offices and schools close during heavy rain. (thehindu.com)

Nice lady repaired my pants in no-time, 50NTD

A few someone came to see Metallica.. ;)

Last week I suddenly discovered a hole in my pants. Luckily, the same day I'd noticed a place where they repaired clothes. So I went there and the lady fixed my pants in no-time, she also lended me a towel because of the heavy rain outside. Things like this makes me aware of how my Chinese has improved during the year. I would never dare to go to a place like this and try to explain my problem in Chinese half a year ago.

When my friend did a stopover in Taipei last week, I decided to go with him to Singapore and see Metallica. A cool experience, and after approximately 24 hours I was back in Taiwan. (Due to no taxies, I was a little nervous about making it to the airport after the concert, but we made it..!)

Where I have Taiwanese-class and where I usually do homework. Why? #1: It has air condition :D

Next week is final exams, and then it's two weeks of vacation. Next term I'll start in E-class, and during October we'll begin book number 4 out of a total of 5 books.