Quick update!

I'm going to try to make this quick because I'm already up way too late.

I started class on Monday. As I suspected, the class is not at a suitable level for me. I'm in the process of switching classes, but I'm trying to decide between three levels of classes. I'm probably going to go with the middle road. I believe I'll be at a level somewhere on third year, which should be appropriate. However, I really like the teacher I have for second year. He's an older guy who's really good at getting material across. It's a bummer I can't have him for another level.

The past three days I've been taking a pronunciation course. The good news is that thanks to the course I've become more comfortable with the Taiwanese way to pronounce Chinese characters. However, since the class is geared towards first-time language learners, it's quite boring and basic. Luckily it's not required so I don't have to show up to it anymore.

Cooking in Taiwan is taking a little bit of getting used to for me. I cooked the spaghetti with sausage in the sauce, but the sausage tasted HORRIBLE. Fortunately it didn't ruin the whole taste of the sauce, so I was able to remove all the meat and have a couple of meals out of a batch of spaghetti. This past weekend I tried stir frying. I cooked some meat first, and after tasting it, realized that it too wasn't very tasty. I learned from experience, though, and didn't add the meat to the stir fry. So far I've figured out a few frozen items that work well in meals (dumplings, chicken burgers, fried rice packets, mushrooms and broccoli in stir fries) and figured out a good Lo Mein recipe.

We chipped in on a wireless router tonight. I've had trouble setting it up. Hopefully I get an e-mail reply from the company and I can get it to work, since I'm basically confined to my room if I want to use the Internet right now.

I still haven't bought a desk and chair. I asked my roommate for a suggestion, and he said that I should keep an eye on furniture people leave out. That would certainly be a cheaper solution, but it's really bothersome that the only way I can use my computer is either lying down in bed with the laptop on my lap or bent sideways with the computer on my bed.

I'm going to get some sleep. I'm going to scope out the classes I'm looking at tomorrow to see which is best, which means I'll have to head on to campus a bit earlier. Later!