Happy New Year!
may this new year bring you endless happiness and joy.
I hope all of your new year started out much better than mine, i.e. without coughs, fever, sore throat, runny nose and mosquitos.
yes, we still have mosquitos. and all i can say about them is that they can either go freeze
in the arctic or burn
in hell, which ever they prefer. i prefer the "burn in hell", so that there's no defrosting option or Jurassic Park possibilities.
I'm down to only 2 weeks of Taiwan now, and I can't wait to get out of here. In no means do i dislike Taiwan ... this place grows on you, and you learn to like it (if you didn't to start with), but after more than a year of not seeing your friends, not being able to eat what you want, go where you want, do what you want ... stress does build up.
Stress like "i want to hug," "i want to drive," "i want to go eat an egg bagel BLT with avocado from Bagel Me!," "I want to go buy clothes that aren't screaming: I'm a princess, I'm so cute, I need to be pampered," "I don't want to be asked where i'm from, or if i'm an ABC," you know, small things like that. I just want to go home, where i can be me. like katherine from the civil engineering department said "I just want to go back to being normal"
and I agree.
unfortunately, i don't get to go home to california.
I get to go to japan.
why, you ask? becasue my grandmother just had surgery for cancer, and my grandfather's one year memorial is coming up. it's nothing like home, but i need to be somewhere where i don't feel like a lost sheep.
hear me baa.
and clean clothes. 
. I effing LOVE them. They felt too sorry for me since this whole semester all I've been to are the airport, school, dorms, class, dad's condo, and the supermarket. Since all the other foreign students in my department (though there lies the differnce that they're 1 year exchange student, PhD candidate and a newly arrived freshie) are BUSY clubbing
and drinking.
my classmates?
taco rice and quesadillas for me on new year's day!
Which, reminds me that I should get my cards ready to send out too. I start missing the Christmas songs that I thought were so annoying, the smell of Christmas greens (although i promised myself that I would never make my own wreaths or garlands anymore after working 5 years at a florist) I miss the snowmen and santas that popped up all over the neighborhood after Thanksgiving.
ニックネーム：Juli
