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We went to New Mexico First
So I finally posted a video tour of our apartment. Warning: 25MB. There are more pics up in the Taiwan gallery too.
In other news, we’re getting fully settled in. Work is going well but keeping me extremely busy. I like walking to the office tower every day, even when it’s raining, it makes me feel like a grown-up for a some reason; apparently my brain didn’t think I was a grown up before. I’m really learning to appreciate the location of the apartment, everything we need seems just a short walk or ride away. I got my first Taiwanese haircut and it looks good – at a high end place down the street, only about $13 with a hair wash. Like Costa Rica, I’m starting to get annoyed if I spend more than $3-4 on lunch. My lunchtime tighfistedness had eroded in Folsom, I had worn down to paying $8 without a second thought.
We’ve started Mandarin lessons – 4 hours a week. I’m building a mental map of the city in my brain. Food is still great – I’ve found a lot of good local places near work, and were sticking pretty faithfully to a different style every time we go out (which is about half the time). You can’t count Chinese food as one genre for this to work, however. My running joke that Cynthia finds unamusing is constantly saying “Hey, why don’t we go out for Chinese food?” . Last night was mala hot pot with visiting US work friends – made with a Szechuan spicy broth. Szechuan is shaping up to be my favorite Chinese food variety overall – it has the best sauces and it’s almost always spicy. Taiwan style beef noodle soup is a very close second. We’ve been sneaking American food at Yuma (Tex-Mex) and today friends took us to The Diner. We will return to all of these places, and also break down and have pizza.
I’m not feeling homesick yet, probably because time is flying – its already almost November. Cynthia and I are spending a week in Shanghai in early November and we’ll be back in the US for Xmas and New Years. Let me know in the comments what you guys want to hear about. For now, I’m going to thaw some frozen sauce and have pasta and garlic bread for dinner.
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