Final Countdown

I can't believe that we have less than a week left in Taiwan! Last night we had our final dinner at the Grand Hotel. It was so fancy. Everybody got dressed up in their snazziest. Of course, dress shopping here is especially difficult but I found some info on a shop with every size available so I decided to head out there Sunday night. Drew, wanting to avoid his homework as long as possible, came with me. We walked maybe 3 miles in crazy heat...uphill. At least it was night time. I wish I had written down the name or something so we could have asked for directions or gotten a cab. So we walked (actually it was more like hiked) all the way up Zhongshan, a two hour endeavor. We never found the store. I probably burned off and sweated out a full dress size. I was not happy but Drew is a sweetheart and didn't get mad about it or anything so I bought him a Slurpee for being such a trooper. Monday, I didn't do so hot on our dictation but neither did anyone else in my class so our laoshi postponed our test to tomorrow. Dinner was amazing. Everybody made me do the walrus (chopsticks under your top lip) and a good time was had by all.