Catching Up

Lots had been going these past few months. And I've been experiencing new things, for example... This is my first summer in Taiwan. Usually I went back to my country once a year these past couple of years. This time, though, I decided to stay and do summer courses. Needless to say, it has been around a month since I started said courses. I have learned one thing, don't take two courses that involve math! Big mistake! :P

My mother did not handle the fact of me staying this summer here pretty well. There is not much I can do, since I really need to take these courses. She doesn't tell me not to do it, but you can just see that she had been disappointed upon receiving such news. She might get sad even. Expecting to see me again, and be waiting for a year...so much pressure to actually please her. But I know that all this is due to a mother's love towards her own children. Which makes it even harder not to make her happy. Sometimes I wish I could be in two places at once...Maybe I learn to clone myself next semester?

Taiwan is an island located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island spans the Tropic of Cancer and is covered by tropical and subtropical vegetation. Being my first summer here I have discovered...the heat that comes with this humid summer...I didn't think that those descriptions of Taiwan being hot and humid could compare by the heat back at home...And I was wrong...Not too long after you're outside...probably five minutes or so...and you are already sweating...Sun hits strong, heck I even got a tan for just walking around! I was definitely not expecting this...heat!

These two up here are Kangaskhan and Tropius. Kangaskhan is overly protective of its child. The child is always in its parents pouch, unless the parent feels its safe for it to walk around with its supervision of course. Wherever they go, nobody and nothing can get near the child. Tropius on the other hand, obviously resembles a tropical plant. Funny thing, that even though Taiwan is a tropical area...we still have more species of bananas and plantains. Tropius weirdly enough has the ability to...fly?! Yes, those leaves on its back allow it do such thing. I wonder if we can make things fly with those leaves...