大家好! Gonna be honest, this week was probably the most difficult of my whole summer. I’m not going to overshare on a blog, but I’ll just say that some things were happening back at home that I felt I really needed to be there to support people for and, as I am abroad, I was not able to. But from every challenge we grow, or so they say (we’ll see how I grow from this I suppose). Anyway, we have officially started the second semester, and even though I studied and was doing well the first semester, the jump to this week was still surprisingly big. Perhaps it is just because we went away for a week or maybe the semesters actually do vary in difficulty, I guess we’ll never know, but time to lock in again because it feels like I’m starting from scratch all over again.
Despite the challenges that have arisen in the past week, I do feel like I have begun to have a very strong connection to Taipei and Taiwan. Through the slight language barrier that still exists as my Chinese continually improves and so many unfamiliar habits and customs, I find myself bit by bit falling for this beautiful place. Perhaps that sounds cliché, but I really do think its true. And I mean it on a deeper level than I just really love the city because its modern and pretty and clean and whatever, like I really feel the soul of the city and I love it. Anyway, perhaps I’ll never be able to truly explain it, but here is starting to feel like home.