So, I'm really bad at updating this buggering thing, if you haven't noticed.

News: I'M IN TAIWAN! If you hadn't noticed from my last few pictures I put up. It's absolutely amazing. Yes, it's very very very hot here, but after a few days that isn't really noticeable. The humidity is what kills. I feel like I'm breathing a solid. Believe me when I say walking outside does not have the "ahhhh, fresh air" feel I'm used to in Oregon.

Other than that, things are dreamy. The people here are so sweet and lovely. Though they do assume that, as Americans, we don't know how to clean or cook. Which is a little frustrating. I think the cooking thing is partially because it's more in their culture to go out to eat instead of making their own dinners. Which I'm sooooo not used to!

Of the craziest things I've done so far, I have to say that eating snake soup was the worst. First, I got to watch the guy whack a very large snake on a table to stun it. Then he hung it by the neck form the cieling. Still alive. Cut it up the belly and bled it dry. While it was living. Then he removed the venom and the gall bladder. These three things were made into three separate drinks. The blood is good to flush toxins from your body, the venom is good for your skin and the contents of the gall bladder is good for your eyes. Supposedly. After all this, I got to go eat some snake. EEEK! It was actually pretty good. The broth was really sweet, and the flesh of the snake was kind of like eating the meat of a fish, but tasted more like a chicken. But sweeter, like the broth. One of the guys who brought us there drank the three health drinks. He was shaking so bad afterwards, but he was very proud of himself. Heh, he started calling friends to boast. Anywho, this is me, signing off. More updates to come!

Shade and Sweet Water