Happy Mother's Day

   I hope you are all wishing your own moms a wonderful Mother's Day and that you are doing

something special for them! Since I'm over in Taiwan all I can do was send my mother a card which thankfully she had already received. I have also visited my mother's city that she had grown up in just yesterday, and I have posted some pictures below. It's a beautiful city called Shipai. I had visited her school, and also have gone her elementary school which was more enormous than I have originally thought it would be. It was a moment where I can imaginatively experience how she might have lived and see what kind of surroundings she had grown up in. I feel as if by visiting the place she had grown up in, I can connect with her more on what made her such an amazing mother! I love you, Mom, and you are such a great friend! Even though there are times when you don't think so, I know you have done the best that you can do in raising me and the boys and my sis.

     Although there are others who aren't my mother, you guys are always there for me, praying for me, and always wishing me the best. You guys are like second mothers to me, and it constantly seems like I am another daughter to you both. Mrs. K and Mrs. R. I pray that you guys have a wonderful day and that the kids treat you as queens giving you the love, respect, and obedience that should actually be given everyday. God bless!

The interior of the school - huge isn't it?

A Renewed Resolution

   So, I know I haven't posted in awhile after my trip to Hong Kong. Truth is I have been getting to tired and lazy in trying to write about what is happening over here. All I want to do is just lay back, go out, and not have to write or study. I suppose Senioritis is trying to once again hold me in its clutches. Preposterous! It's probably vacation time calling my name. No matter what. I have renewed my resolution to continue to study hard in school... and of course to continue updating this blog! Whether it's tiring or becomes bothersome to me, I will still write. This blog is not only to let you guys, my friends and family, to stay connected, but at the same time I view this as a scrapbook for myself that I may look over repeatedly and reminiscence about my daring adventure here. So, that aside, let me catch you guys up on what has happened.

   So many things have happen that there is too much to mention. So... PICTURES!!! Pictures are worth a thousand words anyways. Anywho, Hong Kong was beautiful, but I have never been so stressed out in my life as before. Stressed out and scared. Yikes, it was an experience I will definitely learn from. Basically, I got lost, and I felt I was one of the victims in The Bone Collector  (a taxi cab killer movie). Moral of this... never go out alone, especially late at night in the dark with no one around. A lesson that even I should've known already, but as always I gotta learn it the hard way. Well, below are the pictures. If they are too small just click on them, and they will enlarge.

A protest that was going on when I arrived in Hong Kong

A very long escalator... and I was halfway up

The hostel I stayed at

Cute buses, dontcha think?

  So here are some amazing things I've seen. The hostel that I had stayed at was up deep in the mountains, hence, there were lots of mosquitoes and bugs. Not really my cup of tea, but the view there was breathtaking!