I won the Taiwan lottery and kick boxing is now my new hobby

Every 25th of the odd month Taipei has a lottery. Instead of buying lottery tickets, your receipt is a lottery. I'm not sure if I blogged about this before but it's a good way for people to keep their receipts and not throw them away. Basically every receipt that you get from anywhere has an 8 digit number. If you match the last 3 digits of a number or all the numbers that is listed on the website that was put out today, you can earn some money. If you match the last 3 digits, you receive $200NT which is about $6USD or so. If you match 4 digits, it's $300NT and so forth. If you match all 8 digits of the grand prize number, you win $2 million NT dollars. I checked today and I won $200NT. Yay! I didn't win the last couple of times so I'm happy to say that I won the lottery.

My coworker and I tried another exercise class tonight. This time we decided to take kick boxing, and it was a great choice! Our instructor was a guy and yes, he happened to be in shape and not bad looking. BUT it wasn't his looks that made the class fun. He was really energetic, supportive, and nice. He explained to the newbies, like me and my coworker, that we don't have to hit so hard and that if we need a break, we can take one and stop. He told us not to over do it and hurt ourselves. He also even tried speaking English and singing to the songs lol And when we were doing the punches, he would pretend that we were punching him when we were hitting lol It was also a great work out since we would have an intense workout for 15 mins or so then have a quick break. We actually exercised and we did different things, not like the routines that we did for the high and low class the other day. Yep, we were pretty satisfied and I definitely like kick boxing now :)

By the way, to my fellow American friends and family, Happy Thanksgiving!! I hope everyone has a great turkey day. My roommate/coworker and I are hosting a Thanksgiving dinner with our coworkers and friends this Sunday. I'm pretty excited and it should be fun to have a great gathering of American food in Taiwan. I will blog later about the food and how much the turkey costs..also the fact that it's rare to find an oven in Taipei.

-Chihchat