Has it been 6 months?
Yeah, and I'll be back to Manila. It seems like yesterday when I first set foot here, and now, well guess what.. I'm still the same. hehe. It's funny whenever I encounter Taiwanese, they often tell me that:
1. I don't look like a Filipina. I think they really have a different image of Filipinas here and I cannot totally discredit their claim. In Hualien, Filipinas work as caregivers and yeah, I think I know what they mean.
2. They asked me if I came here for work or to marry. Geez, perhaps it's because of their perception. But you know, foreigner wives here are like 3rd class citizens. I'm not making this up. I get it from reading local English newspapers here, which basically churns one depressing news after another. So do this only if you are desperate.
Oh well, after half a year of lazying around I think my Chinese is not that bad anymore. I still can't talk about politics but at least I know now how to crack jokes.
But I'm really missing home recently and I think I'm just ready to go home. So my friends back in Manila asked me now, "are you going to be here for good?, or "are you going back?"
I say let's take my life, one chapter at a time. When I know what's going to be in the next chapter then I'll get back to you.
1. I don't look like a Filipina. I think they really have a different image of Filipinas here and I cannot totally discredit their claim. In Hualien, Filipinas work as caregivers and yeah, I think I know what they mean.
2. They asked me if I came here for work or to marry. Geez, perhaps it's because of their perception. But you know, foreigner wives here are like 3rd class citizens. I'm not making this up. I get it from reading local English newspapers here, which basically churns one depressing news after another. So do this only if you are desperate.
Oh well, after half a year of lazying around I think my Chinese is not that bad anymore. I still can't talk about politics but at least I know now how to crack jokes.
But I'm really missing home recently and I think I'm just ready to go home. So my friends back in Manila asked me now, "are you going to be here for good?, or "are you going back?"
I say let's take my life, one chapter at a time. When I know what's going to be in the next chapter then I'll get back to you.