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I had stopped writing diary for maybe four years. I don’t know why I stopped writing. I might have been too busy in the beginning of my teaching life or just lazy. Anyway, I think to keep recording my daily life is important because people always forget what has happened in their life. Diary is a tool which can remind me that I have done such many things in the world.

One month ago, I started to write my own love story and share with my friends in my blog. I suddenly found that if I didn’t write diary at that time, it is impossible to remind myself so many details that happened in the past and those details would just be gone from my memory forever. So I made up my mind to write a diary again. But this time, I would like to do it in English. It is much more difficult for me to write in English than in Chinese, but I believe it can improve my English writing skill much and it is cool!

I’m calculating how may rest days I can have this afternoon. Because I plan to leave Taiwan on 23rd of Jun, I should apply 28 rest days in this term. Teachers in Taiwan can just only have 14 legal rest days a year and I need other 14 rest days (112 hours). So I started to extend my work time from 4pm to 6pm every day from this April in order to collect enough hours for 14 days. My co-workers said that I’m “the queen of rota (note 1)”.

There is another important thing for me. That is I bought a Tatung electric pot which is the most famous electric pot in Taiwan. It is an essential cooking tool for Taiwanese students. My assistant suggested me buy one and it cost me 1990 NTD. It’s a quite nice price. I will post it with sea transportation once I’m sure that I am offered a place in IoE. Good luck!