Monday, July 21, 2008

Errands

I ran some errands this morning, with the help of my roommate Yvonne. We stopped at the Family Mart and put more money on my phone card. Then I was able to call my brother and wish him happy birthday :-) Our next stop was the bank where I wired money home to pay off my credit card. (I had to pay for the airplane ticket and they paid me back) Then we headed to the gas station. I had no idea how much it would cost so brought extra money. It was only $173 NT and I was practically empty. That’s about $5.76 US. Not bad since I’ve used the scooter for the past 4 weeks. And I drove to the school in the city 4 times, each way was about 25 minutes. And I drove to church twice, another 35 minute drive one way.

Our last stop was the lunch box place. They have good food! Today I got a honey/soy sauce chicken. And some cabbage, broccoli, and corn. I’ve decided corn is very hard to eat with chopsticks. I did eat in my apartment so I could use my fingers if absolutely necessary. I think I’m okay with chopsticks but it’s stressful to use them in company. I wonder if it will be awkward to go back to a fork, knife, and spoon in a year. Interesting thought.

Oh, at the Family Mart I earned a free candy bar. It is called guts. Made me chuckle! I haven’t tried it quite yet. I’m still full from lunch. I have something to report and I’m surprised by it: my hands are dry. I have used hardly any lotion since coming here. It’s just hot and humid so I didn’t think I needed it. Apparently my hands did. Ugh, I hate having dry hands. I need to leave some lotion here at work.

I think that is all for now. I’m at work to read e-mails and write letters. I had 3 wonderful letters sitting in my mailbox. I just discovered them on Saturday. Thank you to my siblings! And of course, one of them wants snail-mail in return. So I’ll write the letter and then will have to drag a Chinese-speaker with me to the post office. I could try it on my own, but that’s scary. I’m not quite that brave yet.
My lunch! The blue cup has soup that was included. And it was all just over $2 US. Sweet deal!
My candy bar. I'll report on the taste later. It's a strawberry flavor, according to the picture.

P.S. It is a hot sunny day today!! I think the rain from the typhoon is gone.

2 comments:

Tiffany said...

That's a pretty sweet deal on gas! I wish that's how much mine cost...

You'll have to report on how "Guts" tasted. The name doesn't help much, but maybe it's okay?

Lovin' your 6-hour church schedule!

Connie said...

Have you really been there 4 weeks? Your time must go faster than mine. It was terribly hot here today. 101 and humid. Thank heaven for good air conditioning. The bill will be interesting. Love you, Grandma