Last Sunday was 10/10/10, the 100th anniversary of Taiwan, R.O.C. To celebrate, all of the YEP students wore their nationals flags and marched in the parade carrying the flag that was made up of all of the national flags representing all of the YEP student's countries sewn together. All of the YEP students from all over Taiwan were there, so it was a very exciting event!

Yesterday the Rotary District held an event in which every nationality that was represented sewed together their flags. The event made it on many local news channels, and my host dad says that he saw me in one of the clips! After that, some of the exchange students and people from my school went to the market at Danshui (淡水) and played games and ate food. It was really fun! There were a LOT of people there from the Interact club at NTCB (Interact club is like a branch of Rotary club in school) who all came just to hang out with the exchange students. There were so many people that we had to split up into four groups! All in all, it was a really fun day.

This past Thursday, the Chinese Opera teacher held a workshop in which she painted three of the exchange student's faces in the traditional Chinese style and dressed them up as if they were actually performing. The above picture is of the final product: an old man, a jester, and a beautiful woman. This past week has been pretty chaotic at school with homework, lessons, and being swarmed by new friends and classmates. I've been really busy, but it has been a lot of fun!