Katy in Taiwan: Random Happiness, Taiwan 2011

Impromptu photo shoot in my writing class

Miss Katy

Thanks Yenna!

So I've been asked by a few fellow international travelers what the weird idem is on the McDonald's menu. Well here it is.

Shrimp Burger at McDonald's

Sadly by the time I went to get one they were gone . . . but the ones at MosBurger was good . . .

So . . . about a week after I got to Taiwan (the first week in July) I got two big spots by my collar bones, I didn't do anything about it because it never changed. . . . Then in March-ish it started getting hotter and I got more spots . . . . Finally I went to the dermatologist and found out that my own sweat was causing a dermal-fungus (at least that's what I got through the translation).

. . . fungal-spots . . .

Destiny's 24th birthday was on March 28 and on the Saturday before we went to a great Thai restaurant that her Chinese Lao Shi brought us to.

This was a great coconut dessert ;)

Katy, Chinese Lao Shi, Awesome Thai Elephant, Destiny

On her actual birthday we went bowling!

Destiny and her favorite pineapple-cake

Katy, Allison, Destiny, Shauntelle

HAPPY B-DAY MISS D!

On April 2nd Destiny and I went to Taipei. We went to the temple then to a dance production at the Sun Yet-sen Memorial of traditional Chinese dancing with a few Chinese operatic solos. The group also had a a strong political agenda. They were trying to get the word out about the Falun Gong (Dafa) issue in mainland China. The whole thing was very interesting.

Katy, Destiny, Sun Yat-sen as a statue

Only in Asia Ad:

Can you guess what this is an advertisement of? Look closely, what is he holding? You can see the top half of the product at the bottom of the pic.

Yep, that's Matsumoto Jun of the Japanese boy band, Arashi, and he is advertising Mascara . . .

Good-bye Greenes! The Greenes were the couple missionaries in our branch. Elder Greene was a counselor in the branch presidency. They were both so amazing, they were very missed when they left.

Elder Greene, Katy, Sister Greene

Jenny, Sister Greene, Elder Greene

On May 14 I went to Hsinchu to hang with my good friend Erin Shaw. We went to a great burger place, randomly came across a beautiful temple . . .

Erin Saw

Katy

Then we decided to get our hair cut! While we waited for our appointment we went shoe shopping!!! Two shoes later:

Katy, Erin

On the 21st I went 'camping' with some of Berhan's Chinese staff including Frances and Gerald (who's birthday was apperently that day, so they had to go get cake, which he doesn't eat . . . but we liked it!) We also were able to go see the fireflies!!! Fireflies are such a trip!

The people camping next to us must have been a dog-lovers-group. How many dogs can you see?

There are at least 8 dogs just in this picture!

Uncle, ?, ?, ?, ?, Cindy, Peggy's daughter, Peggy, ?, ?, Gerald, ?, Seth, Katy, ?, ?, Frances, ?, Andy

Thursday-Friday, May 26th-27th, 2011: My 27th Birthday!

You see, I got a second Golden Birthday! How? Well, I was born at 8:22pm MST on the 26th, but that was 10:22am CST on the 27th. So, because I was living in CST I get a second golden birthday!!!!

Betsy took me to chill-out at Starbucks (Thank you!) and then Thursday night I had my night KE class soooooo . . . photo shoot!