Learning Chinese

I am presently learning chinese from a very important place. This would be the tea shop. So far I can order Passion Fruit Green Tea, Milk Tea with tapioca, Milk Tea with out, Grapefruit Green Tea, Chocolate Milk Tea with tapioca and Chocolate Milk Tea without. So far, my favorites are passion fruit green tea and Milk Tea. If you come and visit, we will take you to get some of these wonderful drinks. The picture above is a picture of a tea shop in Taipei. We have gone to this place one time. In Yuchih, near our school, we go to a place where the lady does not laugh when we speak chinese. She has the best teas, in my opinion.

Milk Tea, actually Chocolate Milk Tea

I received an Email from Elizabeth at church and it was great hearing from her. I decided that I would dedicate this blog to her and you will understand why shortly.

I love Milk Tea, especially Chocolate Bubble Milk Tea. I finally figured out how to say it in Chinese (I am not going to even attempt writing it the English version of chinese) and I can actually recognize a few words. To say Tea, you write 茶. To write Milk, you write 牛奶. I have not figured out Chocolate yet, but will shortly. I will soon be able to read the tea stands!

Also, our small town of Yuchih (it probably has 3 small grocery stands) has about 10 tea stands. So far, I have only tried milk tea from 3 tea stands. I will soon try them all. At one stand, they laugh everytime I try to order Chocolate Milk Tea. Oh well...

Milk Tea, though, is served cold. At our house, we have yellow tea, which is absolutely wonderful hot. When I come back, I will definitely be bringing some back for everyone to try. I will also post pictures shortly.

Typhoon!

On Friday about 12:35, I was talking with Holly, an elementary school teacher. She mentioned that we were going to get a typhoon this weekend. She also told me that she had found out when our vice principal had prayed for protection from the typhoon that morning... We didn't think anything of it because we had found out so late. We went to Puli, a town nearby that has a few more modern conveniences than Yuchih. (We wanted to bling out our new cell phones and they don't have that type of stuff in Yuchih) We received a phone call from our boss in Taipei who informs us that this typhoon has 2 eyes and is comparable to a 5 on the hurricane scale... We were already getting stuff for an event Friday night, so we quickly got a few more supplies. Robert, our boss, also mentioned that we should not go near any signs during the typhoon because that was the second biggest killer... We still don't know what the first is.

Friday night I wanted to go to our kitchen which I have to go outside and then inside to get to it. At the front of our doorway, there was a ton of ants and they appeared to want to come in. (We think because of the typhoon) We cleaned them up and hunkered down for the long weekend. They reappeared the same time last night(Saturday night) as well. Auugghhh! We also found out that a majority of the typhoon was coming in Saturday night and all through Sunday.

So far, it is really windy and rainy, but I have not seen anything falling down. Phil and Cory went to get more water and tried to go to Balance to get chocolate milk tea for me and milk tea for everyone else, but they were closed. :( Luckily, they canceled the high school for tomorrow because our students are coming in and a lot of public transportation is closed. I finally got this place looking like the way we want it to... Yeah! I hope that no one is hurt.