Here a a few more random pics.


This is Jessie and I making traditional Hakka Tea. The large bowl is grooved with ridges to help grind the ingredients. A variant of a mortar and pestle. It's a lot of work but the outcome is worth it. The ingredients include, green tea leaves, sesame seeds, and peanuts. Instructions: grind into fine powder and add hot water. It was very good. They had small little rice puffs to put on top and some brown sugar. I just imagined the rice puffs were little marshmallows. For a snack they also served machi which is a gummy textured hunk of goo, and in this case it was covered with peanut powder. It sounds gross but it's actually quite good. Jessie and I are also rockin our awesome snoopy shirts my mom sent us. Thanks mom your the best!

Jessie's parents and I back in February. I've come to realize how incredibly white I am. I really need to get a tan!

Taipei 101
I didn't go to the top because the visibility was not that great the day we were there. Didn't want to pay to go to the top of the tallest building in the world and not be able to see any thing.

This is me on Jessie's scooter with my mask on. This was taken just last weekend. It's a lot of fun and everyone is shocked that I can drive a scooter even though I've never driven one before. To bad it only has 49cc