some random thoughts...

- i was riding the infamous blue 5 (yea, even you know what this is by now) up a mountain (where i now live) and the blue 5 is like a mini bus...but it's still a bus. the road is very narrow on the mountain and he was driving like he was in the fast and the furious III. there were about a billion chances to for him to "oops....oh well" and hit & run but he didn't hit anything. i was scared for my life.

- chinese relatives are HORRIBLE!!! they say "eat, eat...you're not giving me face! if you don't, you're not showing sincerity!" and i'm like, what does that have to do with anything? so instead of hoping to naturally lose weight in taiwan from all the walking, i think i've actually gained weight. and a lot of people in taiwan smoke so i'm eating at the same time inhaling second-hand smoke. if i don't die because i'm obese, i'll die from lung cancer.

- so im not that good at meeting strangers, esp old creepy men distant relatives. tonight there was this one creepy relative that kept staring at me. i moved to the living room and he would occasionally glance over. gosh what a creeper! i left and came back to this apt...thank goodness. i'd rather ride the blue 5 and get into an accident than have him stare at me like a creeper.

- this is the website of the church i'm attending now. it's the mother church of a small, Chinese home church in Houston. there are also divisions in san jose, cali. http://www.llc.org.tw/llcpage/. it's all in chinese, unfortunately.

- so God has really blessed me, because im in a small group with people that all have been abroad to study. we're doing the bible study in chinese, but at least they can understand me when i speak english. this is awesome cuz i get to improve my biblical chinese. woot. which is exactly what i'm looking for!