Music: Aimai na mikau by Girugamesh
Hey there.
Actually, before I delve into some other topic, I have two things to say:
1. I’ve decided to just spend the money on having fun here. ^^ In one day, I already spent US50$, so I’m still working on trying to like… you know… conserve a little. It was a good day though! Hahha.I’ve spent over US75$ since I last wrote here a few days ago… o.O So I really need to tone it down…
With that money, I bought a cheap signing book for people (it’s really pretty! I love it!), I went clubbing (which means alcohol and entrance fee), food, special French food for Manon’s bday at Taipei 101 (not at the top though), and more alcohol for Manon’s bday party at school (I still have to get her present together…). So, it’s not going to waste. I just need to be a little more conscious. Haha.
2. On June 12th and 13th I’m going to this international anthropology conference with some friends called Anthropological Futures here in Taipei.
Actually, for the sake of the fact that I have less than 20 min to write, I’m gonna make this more tithe…
Highlights!
Monday: Gave a speech in front of the whole school thanking those who’ve helped me and telling the fuckers who were bitches to grow up and get a life. ^^
Tuesday: Got tipsy at school with some YEP for Manon’s bday, went to a nice park in a random area, Quentin gave me a present he’s been looking all over the heart of Taipei for and I lost it 3 hours later cause I left it on a bus… I was really depressed and cried and Miguel was sad that I was sad, so he left the rest of us, searched for FOUR HOURS BY HIMSELF in the center of Taipei looking for my present ( it was a watermelon umbrella that I invented in my imagination and always thought it’d be so cool if it existed. One day I mentioned this in passing to Quentin (a long time ago) and he fucking found something just like it on Tuesday! …. I really really love watermelon…). Quentin found it in a really random area and it belonged to someone else, he just asked for it. Miguel couldn’t find a replica of it (I tried the WHOLE YEAR to find a watermelon umbrella and turns out Quentin had been looking all year too to get me one and I was pretty sure that the one I lost was the only one in all of Taipei. Quentin was so happy he found this that when he gave it to me he said: “Now Josie, I looked far and wide for this. You better not lose it okay?” And what did I do? I lost it. T_T). So Miguel bought me a little watermelon pencil bag and came ONE HOUR to a place out side of Taipei to give it to me. Can you freaking believe this?!
What on earth did I do to deserve this? Holy crap… for the first time in my life, I was given more love than I could handle. I’m always the one who’s super intense in loving people and people are like weirded out or shy or whatever, but for the first time ever, I was on the receiving side. No WONDER Taiwanese didn’t receive me well… (actually, I have a little funny story about that).
Like, it stops you cold. When you’re given this much love, you don’t know what to do with yourself. You get stupid. I was speechless and could just cry and hug him. I was dazed for hours. It was like an out of body experience (not that I’ve ever had one of those…). Oh, actually, I have a little funny story about that too…
Anyways, gotta go.
Today, Wednesday, I’m going paragliding with some friends. Then, a few dinners and stuff cause on this Thursday, two YEP leave. Sunday Ju leaves. THEN, Manon just got told yesterday night, she has to leave Taiwan in exactly 7 days… Can you believe that? She has NO time to prepare and neither do we… God…. ugh. Rotary and their fucking “I-need-to-destroy-lives” superiority complex. I hate this Rotary District so much.
Anyways, I wanna end on a positive note. So: Love you all! June 1st was one of the hardest days of the exchange cause “it”‘s officially started… The Leaving Process.
Take care! You know I will, after all, how can you not when you have such amazing support in your life?
