Happy Valentine’s Day

情人節快樂!

I know I have a shit ton of posts overdue, but for now wishing everyone a nice Valentine’s Day. To celebrate, I hit up a jazz lounge called Brown Sugar in Taipei with a bunch of my single friends.

My distant cousin even came by with her friends:

My cousin and friends

Monday nights there’s a jazz singer named Black Pearl Zorina, by way of New Orleans, performing. She was excellent, and she even did a rendition of 月亮代表我的心 (The Moon Represents My Heart). Sounded like her Chinese might be better than mine. Afterwards, a singer from LA performed a few classics, like My Girl. Even better, the singer (Meachie Day) called for people to come on stage to dance with Zorina. Due to peer pressure (and some alcohol) I went up there and did my thing haha:

Won myself a free drink, a “Lamborghini”… it was literally on fire.

You can't see it now, but the drink was on fire

I met up with both of them afterwards, and turns out they were both pretty chill. Looks like Brown Sugar’s my new favorite hangout spot. Even got me a Valentine’s smooch from the Black Pearl herself for “being so adorable”. =)

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Class Trip

Ah yes, the lack of posts has been disconcerting. But fret not- your hero is alive and well. Pouring out some of the latest updates:

迪化街-

In preparation for Lunar New Year, my class took a trip out to 迪化街, the street that opens up just to sell New Year-related goodies. I was just happy that we even bothered to go on a trip, since we did absolutely nothing last semester. But it was cool chilling with the classmates outside of the school, and we even met some other teachers and their students.

The street itself is busy as fuck, with all sorts of snacks being sold. We were all put on sort of “treasure hunt” and had to find certain shops based on pictures given to us. I kind of sat back and took pictures while I let my friends handle that work.

Beginning of the madness...

Pork/Beef Fiber

Classmate bumps into old friend!

Found him!

Shark jaws methinks

Couldn't resist...

The exit

Afterwards we walked a few blocks to a puppet museum. Nothing great, really. A lot of puppets.

MAOOOOO!

His Chinese was decent

Wrapping up the trip: Class photo (minus a few)!

胡老師's Amazing ABC Class (minus a few)

Couldn’t finish the trip without some dessert. Thanks to a classmate’s diligent collecting of 7-11 stickers, we were able to get buy-1-get-1-free Cold Stone.

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