First night in New Commercial Apartment

Yesterday was a busy day. In the morning I took my first three hours of Taiwanese class. In the afternoon I drove way over to the other side of town on my scooter to make a pick-up. Then I took a taxi to deliver all of my stuff from the SEND guest house where I stayed my first four nights to the commercial apartment room (only about 100 yards from where I lived last term) I will rent for the next month. Somehow, after that I still managed to get a quick BODY PUMP work-out in at my old gym, which has once again changed management (It was a litle sad to see so few of the old employees there).

Because the bed here is rock hard, I slept terribly again last night. I like hard beds and in fact my bed in storage here is really hard. But it'll take a few nights to get used to again!

Readjusting to Taichung

Thanks be to God for my first good night's sleep since arriving back in Asia! (the key was plenty of coffee and no long naps :-) )

A few of the things I've already begun enjoying (or detesting) since my arrival back in Taichung:

+ Guava, papaya, and mango!

- Shoes thoroughly and clothing partially soaked while riding on my scooter during a heavy rainstorm (in spite of wearing rainclothes) and then roasting in the heat and humidity on same scooter a few hours after the storm passed through.

Yesterday I spotted yet another new Starbucks... that's a total of 4 new ones in less than a year. Also found that two small restaurants I enjoyed from time to time have both gone out of business. Not atypical for Taichung.

Very Moving

I received this URL from one of my uncles... so moving it almost reduced me to tears! (and I'm most assuredly NOT an opera fan)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0dzZTPWrSM

Jetlagged in Taiwan

I enjoyed a full hour and fifteen minutes last night of sleep. Can't remember having had quite this much difficulty adjusting timezones my first few days back on previous trips. Looks like I'll be savoring another 4 hour nap later this morning/afternoon. Depending on when I begin to feel like I can sleep, I may be worshipping at a church with an afternoon service!

Appendum: Wound up sleeping 6 hours this afternoon after church and am now enjoying a Latte at Starbucks in order to send/check e-mail. So it'll be another long night! :-)

What was Lost is Found

My lost bag (containing my digital camera and new notebook computer not to mention lots of new books and winter clothes) has been found by United Airlines! Thank the Lord.