My Weekend ;-(

Long time no see. I’m in Taiwan now!! lol

I live in Sanchong city near Taipei city now. I’ve already studied Chinese about for more than one month here. I really like Taiwan. Taiwanese people are very nice. They are very friendly and many of them like Japan. So, I feel comfortable here. lol There are a lot of delicious foods in Taiwan. I love fruits in Taiwan. I often buy fruits juice. These days “Bai xiang guo green tea” and “sweet Oolong tea” is in my boom. Do you guys know them?? Especially, there are no Bai xiang guo in Japan so I almost every day buy that tea. lol It is very cheap!! It costs only 10 Taiwan dollars. Oh~~why there is no Bai xiang guo in Japan?!?! I want my family and my friends in Japan to try it!! They must like it!!! Well, I love the atmosphere in night market. It is quite different from Japan. Whenever I go there I feel like I’m really in Taiwan!

Well, Taipei is very hot everyday. But it’s rainy heavily yesterday and today because we have a very huge tyhpoon now. "Qiang mi"is it's name. It sounds pretty but actually it's terrible. Today I don't have class coz of the typhoon. It disturbs people's life a lot!! Damn it...

In my Chinese class, teacher told us that in the summer and fall in Taiwan, it is pretty much hot and Typhoon comes so often. Typhoon in Taiwan and one in Japan are very different. Especially in my hometown we don’t have typhoon so often. In Taiwan, it is very scary when Typhoon comes. We have heavy rain and too windy. We had a very big Typhoon on Moon festival day. It was so bad. Well, I don’t think the fall in Taiwan is truly “fall”. That is because flowers are blooming and leaves in trees are still green. It becomes colder in fall in my hometown, Yamagata prefecture. It is very cold especially in winter. It is said that they don’t have snow in winter in Taipei city. But when it rained, it would be very cold and humid. By the way, spring is the most beautiful season in Taiwan. There are many kinds of flowers and they are very beautiful. Also, weather is not such cold.
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There are too many Japanese students in my University: National Taiwan Normal University. I don’t use Japanese in school. Because I have a strong Touhoku dialect in my Japanese, others wouldn’t be able to understand my Japanese. Ah, many Taiwanese people say I look like Taiwanese, not a Japanese lol. I don’t know why!! haha My Chinese class is pretty good. I love my teacher and my classmates. My teacher is very good teacher. She is passionate and has humor. I have 7 classmates in addition to me. 4 students are Japanese, 2 are from France and 1 is from Korean. There is only one boy in my class lol. We are all getting along with together.
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28th in this month is “Teacher’s day” in Taiwan. It’s interesting!! We don’t have such a day in Japan. My classmates and I are gonna write a message card for our teacher. I had a test of unit 12 in the level 1 text book. I hope I did ok. lol The day before yesterday, we started to study level 2 text book. My text book is easy actually but I cannot speak and listen to Chinese. That is I can’t have conversation with people in Chinese. This is the biggest problem for me in Taiwan. I gotta practice so hard!! I worry about my Chinese skill everyday. If my Chinese didn’t improve one year after…What should I do!!!???

Btw, I have a language exchange partner now. She and I are good friends!! Yeah~~!! She is a graduated school of NTNU. I’m so happy to meet her.
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AIU students maybe prepare for the school festival now. It is very fun!! I heard that it was snowy in Hokkaido these days. The temperature was around 6 or 7 Celsius. No way!!!! Too cold!! This year would be the first year that I don’t have snow in winter. I would feel very strange but interesting. haha