so it's 7:30pm-ish here in Taiwan and i'm gonna leave soon for my flight back to the US. yay? :P i'm excited, to get out of this heat, to have stuff to do.. to know what everyone else is saying! but it's sad that vacation is over :P my mom keeps telling me to move here to teach english, and that may be really exciting, or could get old really fast. it was interesting to just hang out with relatives, or with my sister's friends... neither of which i'm particularly super close to, so if it was me and big 'ol group of my friends i think it would be way fun. but i had a SUPER good time too.. and shopping is always fun, no matter who you're with :) but for the first few days i felt like i had been here forever... probably because we were doing so much stuff.. by the second or third day i thought a week had passed! but now i feel like i've only been here for three days!

sorry to sakura because i couldn't get you those hole punchy thingies, but i got lots of other cute stuff! and sorry to my boss (not that he reads this) for not being able to get him a magic mic. oops.

anyhoo... the typhoon is here or has passed.. the brunt of it never really came near taipei, so i'm safe.. but just lots and lots of raining.. all day.. sometimes hard, sometimes light.. but just lots and lots of wetness... and humidity.. blech. but at least it's not as bad as the sweltering heat and humidity.

last night i went to go see spiderman 2 (which i liked..except for all the cheese :P) and then went out for a bit @ this place called champagne. not too bad. and during the day my mom took me to more day market shopping stuff, and when i didn't think i could buy more bags, i did. hahah..plus lots of pens at the $19 NT store (yay) and cool other stuff.. it sounds like i've spent so much money and i sometimes feel like i have, but i've spent less than $300! and although that's a lot, for the amount of stuff i've bought, eaten, drank... it's not too bad :) i feel like a bandit :P

anyhoo.. so there will be no weather delays for my plane tonight.. i think. my mom's still packing and re-packing and sorting stuff out. i'll probably take a shower and change before getting on the plane. good times..

can't wait for 4th of july!! and to see you. :)