Hey folks,

Where to begin? Well, my third and final teaching demo went pretty well, my observer (an experienced NST) gave me high marks. I thought that it could have gone much better and I obviously had a place or two to improve, but I hit all the right spots- I did what they taught me to do.

Others were not so lucky.

Hey folks,

I apologize that it's taken me almost a week for my first entry on here, I'm sure you are all curious as to how the adventure is going.

Well, getting here was the easy part.

The first thing that struck me about this country was the smell. As soon as I stepped out of the sliding glass doors into this place of blazing sun and endless humidity, the odor of the place assaulted my nostrils like a German machine gun squad. It wasn't necessarily a bad smell, but nor would I want to bottle it up; it just smelled. I think a lot of it was pollution because it's not so bad anymore and the airport is a good 30 minutes away from downtown Taipei. Then again, maybe I'm just used to it.