The good things are the little things. Specifically, food.

Today, as I was finishing up my little box of fried rice from the little vegetarian place around the corner, I realized that I was starting to get the hang of chopsticks a little bit! Not that I am good, by any means, but I can eat rice dishes pretty efficiently now, I can scoop the little grains up many at a time, instead of grain by grain (very time consumning, let me tell you!)

After I made this realization, it occured to me that as the newness and shock of the experience of moving to and living in Taiwan start to fade a little, that there will be a lot of things about this place that I will really miss when I leave. Food, I have to admit, will be the formost on the list at this time. Beautiful, delicious, cheap, and all kinds of vegetarian food is everywhere! Can I even begin to talk about the fruit? Maybe it is that they have so many different kinds of fruits-- they have everything you could buy in the U.S. plus a wild assortment of tropical fruits that I have never seen before. I haven't even begun to try them all! Next time I go to the store I will take pictures I can show what I mean, words don't do justice.

I used to love the pearl milk tea, because that was the only thing available (granted, one could add an assortment of flavors to the milk tea...). Once I got to Taiwan, my goodness, the tea stands here are incredible. Fresh juice, either by itself or blended with green tea, black tea, red tea, whatever you fancy! My favorite is passionfruit with green tea (百香綠茶). So delicious! And people here are so friendly... they always want to let me try new things that we don't have in the States. Haha, people who know me know to win my heart with food, not flowers.