I’ve been a busy bee!

by | Jan 25, 2013 | Travel

I don’t know where to start! Although the beginning is usually the best place, I feel as if I haven’t posted in a while, to which that is true. So I’m just going to post a few pictures that I’ve downloaded from my Facebook album recently.

Other than my grandmother passing away, and with some of my relatives being up in arms over the inheritance, everything has been fine. I kind of look at the way my grandmother was and I have concluded that it was best that she died, as her condition was not getting better and a life of immobility is not really a life. She also said to my mother that she wanted to die as you literally needed someone with her 24/7 to do things for her as she could not move on her own will.

Funerals are supposed to bring families closer together, it definitely brought my cousin from Australia, who I haven’t seen since I was 16 in the UK, closer to my older sister and myself. On the last day of their stay, approximately 3 days ago, we hit up a pub (酒吧) in Taichung (台中) and I managed to get drunk for the first time in around a year. It was fun, and they had fun, so things went swimmingly. The previous days we went out to other pubs and done a little KTV, and all in all it was fun that they came to Taiwan. Hopefully I can go visit them in Australia, in the future.

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