I have now entered the state in between school’s end and summer’s true beginning. On Wednesday I finished my last final in Statistics, cleaned out my desk, put my textbooks on the bookshelf and threw out a ton of papers. I was planning on taking a bicycle trip down the east coast of Taiwan but the other day riding my bike to the store I got a flat tire which totally deflated (get it) my motivation.
On Thursday evening we had our 2nd annual End of Semester house party. Last year it was in Gueishan but this year we rocked out Taipei style. There must have been at least 40 people who came throughout the night. Most of them were mine or Emily’s classmates but there were some other friends from church and stuff. Our roommates really enjoyed it too! People started showing up around 8pm and we still had hangers-on until the subway opened back up Friday morning at 6am. It was a great night of fun complete with PS2 Soccer action, Texas Hold’em, and in general good times. I was so tired by the time the last of them went home…I’m gettin’ old. One of the attendees who knows Emily and I are serious about Christianity remarked to me how surprised he was that we could have such a good and raucous time. Its always nice to bust up stereotypes isn’t it? Although our neighbors didn’t officially attend I’m sure they were very aware of what was going on and were gracious enough to let us carry-on without any spoiling.
Saturday night we put an ad up on tealit to find a sub-letter for our room while we’re away this summer and by Sunday morning we had one! Thank you God!
Emily still has her finals through Thursday so I’ll be finishing the painting of our bedroom and maybe I can do some bike riding here in Taipei along the river trail or something. Once she finishes up we’re taking a little excursion down to the Taiwanese version of Florida known as Kenting at the very southern tip of Taiwan before we head back to America.
Sunday was our last visit to New Hope Christian Fellowship before America so we’ll miss our church family here. However, I for one am starting to get seriously geeked about being back home with my homies.
I’m looking forward to seeing you! Make sure you save some time for a visit. We’ll be around for the majority of August.
Hey Michael! Your party sounds like A LOT more fun that any party I attended before I knew Jesus! That is one of the biggest lies the enemy likes to perpetrate that Christians don’t have any fun! And no one better that you and Emily to break that stereotype!!!! I wish I could have witnessed your raucous good time! I think you should take a Thank-You present to your neighbors for putting up with the noise! You must have wonderful neighbors!We’re really looking forward to seeing you! By the way, Sunday it finally got hot here! We hadn’t needed the air until then. It’s 88 today! I hope it’s not that hot for de-tassling.