30 word sentence

I love challenging my favorite A11 class since they have been studying English for around 8 years, they are older, mature, and they want to be there (I think lol). For our voc. review game, I had them roll the dice and if you roll #1, you have to make a sentence with at least 3 words. #2 is 6, #3 is 9, #4 is 12, #5 is 15, and yes, #6 is 18 words. Everyone was freaking out but we played the game and usually they would roll a #1,#2, or #3. Two people rolled #6 and yes, I made them write a 18 word sentence using the voc.

Anyway so the word was funky and one of my students wrote a 30 word sentence. It was awesome and I was surprised but yet not surprised that she wrote the sentence. I thought it was great and I wish it was on a piece of paper but they were writing on the board and it was soon erased. I'm such a teacher nerd but it just makes my day when the students do awesome things like that. I don't know if I could write a Chinese sentence using 18 characters. AND my half-day class was behaved and played the rev. voc. game without complaining. They did have their final Chinese exams though but I was in shock! lol

Wow...today is the 7th month mark of being in Taiwan. I totally forgot today was exactly 7 months. I'm so used to everything now. I'm adjusted and for the most part assimilated to Taipei that time is going by too fast. Honestly, I feel like I'm in a movie and just going through all the motions. I'm doing all these things but it feels like a dream since I'm doing so many things in such a short amount of time. The months are a blur and I can't even imagine how I acted or was like the first week I was in Taipei. I've changed a lot but so far it's been for the best. I've changed my eating habits (stopped drinking pop and chips), am more frugal, and I always have to recycle now. I started exercising more and now take a regular exercise class. I also meet with my coworker one hour a week to practice my Chinese. I've done so many things these past couple of months, I'm excited for what the next month will bring for me :)

-Chihchat