taiwan tiger 台灣的老虎

Rain, Rain, Rain

We're in that part of September when it rains hard everyday. Not necessarily all day, but every day. For the last three days or so, and for the next upcoming 3, we have rainstorms and thunderstorms. Its no Seattle rain--it just dumps down. I like it, though. It gives the city a good scrubbing.

Starting next week, I will be teaching English to adults, 3rd graders, and 1st graders. I will need to get used to adjusting between teaching the alphabet and teaching advanced reading. In the same afternoon. Yikes.

Costco Taiwan

Last night I went to Costco. It is just a strange way of touching base with America, I supppose, because I used to do that when I lived in Seattle. Taiwan's Costco is a little different, though. This made me laugh. You can buy both fresh roasted chickens and Jack Daniels Whiskey in the U.S. Costcos, but very rarely do people consume both on the premises immediately after purchase, like the group I met up with at Kaohsiung's Costco. This group sat down in the cafeteria and popped the bottle open and devoured the chicken with gusto. They had consumed 2/3 of the bottle and the whole chicken by the time I sat down with my NT$60 pizza slice. Of course, another table in the cafeteria was working on their chicken, too, so maybe it is normal there.... Other than dropping a few chicken bones on the floor while cleaning up, the whole thing was surprisingly controlled. It could have been a bottle of coke, except for the immanent "Asian Red Face" that immediately identified the drinkers....