Mexican Food in Taiwan

I had a really good day today. I wasn't highly productive, so it's a little frustrating, but it was a fun day. Uploading the pictures took forever last night and so I didn't get to bed until after 1:30am. So when my alarm went off at 6:30am, I was pretty tired. I reset it for 7am, but that was too early still so I turned it off. I woke up at 8:30am, so my day started later then normal. I still got up and worked out, but because it was later in the morning, the sun was out in all it's intensity and it was pretty hot out there.

I had plans to meet with the sister missionaries at noon and I was hoping that I could run a few errands before going, but I got doing something in my room that held me up until it was time to leave. I rode over to the church. The gate across the driveway was shut. That was weird, I don't often see the church shut. There was a walk in gate to the side and I tried that and it was locked too. I decided to just park my bike and sit out front and wait for the sisters to show up. I waited like 20 minutes before I heard a voice from behind me ask, "Brooke, how long have you been waiting there?" The sisters had been inside and it turns out that the gate that I tested was really unlocked- I had pressed the wrong side of the gate or something. The sisters felt bad that I had been waiting out there so long, and I just felt like the biggest moron for being locked out by an open gate.

The sisters went to grab their bikes and we all headed out to a Mexican restaurant. I was excited and knew it would be a fun experience to have Taiwanese style Mexican food. It definitely did not taste authentic, but it was pretty good food. They had tortilla chips and tortillas, so that was super exciting. After lunch we headed back to the church. Along the way, Sister Woods stopped off to buy a green bean smoothie. I tried some of hers and liked it and decided to get one of my own. Once we got to the church we saw the elders who were heading back to their apartment. They were making fun of Sister Woods and her smoothie but then I pointed out that I had one too. They were in shock that I would like it the first time I tried it. I think it's one of those foods that you get used to the more times you have it, so for me to like it the first time just shows that I've adjusted to Taiwanese food :o)

At the church Sister Woods taught us how to swing dance a little bit. I don't think Sister Hill was having the most fun with it because she ended up sitting down and fiddling with her camera and trying to figure out what cool effects her camera could do. Sister Woods and I had a blast however. We stayed there for a while, but then they had an 'appointment' with an investigator. I decided to leave when she came because no one was really sure why she was there, but I figured the girl didn't want me there and I felt awkward (what's new, right?)

I came back and found out that Kristy was not at school today, which means that I didn't have to tutor her, and Dar-sen went on vacation, so I didn't tutor him either. After figuring out that I didn't have to tutor Kristy, Beth and I left to go catch a movie. On Sunday Beth told me that she wanted to go see Made of Honour. We had plans to go on Monday, but then we went to Carp Lake. We were going to go on Tuesday, but we went to the stone market. So we went tonight. We went and bought the tickets and then went to dinner. I thought we were pressed for time, but Beth read her clock wrong and we actually had an hour more then we thought. We wandered for a little while and then just ended up going to the floor our movie was on a half hour early. The movie was pretty good. I was expecting better, but I enjoyed it.

After the movie we headed back, and now I'm blogging. So, it was a fun filled day, but like I said, I'm feeling a little guilty because nothing got accomplished. Perhaps I will make up for it tomorrow, we'll see.