This blog hit a milestone of sorts yesterday - over 10,000 pageviews since I started writing a year ago. I decided to blog about our travels as a way of letting family and friends know what I was up to without having to email each individual person. I've heard it said plenty of times that Facebook is where people stay in touch but I'm not a big Facebook fan. So I started blogging back when we started packing up to come to Taiwan, way back in April of last year. I love that people are reading what I write. It keeps me coming back to the keyboard. But frankly, I'd write even if no one was reading. It turns out I like writing. Who knew? Hmm, there are a lot of things I've learned about myself in the past ten months. Anyway, thanks for hanging out with me.

In news from my corner of the world, it's raining. I know, who wants to hear about the weather, but we've needed the rain so badly and here it is. It rained all day yesterday and it was delightful. We rode our bikes to and from school and it really was quite pleasant. The air temperature was in the low 80's so the rain is more refreshing than chilly, even on the bike.

However, the rain did complicate the musical performance the kids planned for after school yesterday. But this is Taiwan and we, apparently, don't let a little rain get in the way of our plans. The high school students have a performance club that performs mostly pop songs to the delight of their peers and yesterday was their last concert for the school year. They set up on the high school courtyard but the rain started to get a bit heavy so they tucked themselves under the eaves and brought out the umbrellas.

I think they mostly perform for each other so the audience isn't crucial. (Kind of like my blog - see how I brought this post full circle?) My classroom is on the second floor, all the way to the left in this photo so I could sit in my room and listen while I got some work done after school.