Just waiting...
I took Liz to the hospital on Monday morning - they use hospitals here just like clinics back home. You go in and register and then wait to see a doctor - luckily, we only had to wait about 2 minutes for a doctor and she spoke very good English. She laughed when she saw what the other doctor from the Hyatt clinic had given us to give to Liz. She said Liz still has right ear infection and possible sinus infection with cough and congested nose. Liz had developed spots all over her body and she said that was a result of her high fever from the days before and they would go away in 4-5 days. Then she prescibed her some medicine and sent us to the pharmacy which is also in the hospital. When she types the prescription into the computer, it automatically gets sent to the pharmacy and you wait your turn to pick it up. That took the longest, about 15 minutes and were done - after paying about NT550 for everything - so around $18 US dollars. She is doing much better today and the medicines really help her cough and her nose. She's been in a much better mood, causing all sorts of chaos in the hotel room and with her sister.
We didn't do much over the weekend, some walking, waiting to hear on apartments (which we never did) and that's about it. With Liz feeling bad, we didn't venture out a lot. Monday we looked at some more apartments in a complex we liked, unfortunately, they were both ones we had already seen and said no to. So, that did us no good and wasted an afternoon of not working for Anthony. We took a long walk last night from an area called DaAn to the hotel, took us a long time and wore us out, my back started hurting a bit, but it was good to walk off some steam as I was pretty frustrated at the apartment situation. We ordered Pizza Hut for dinner, pizza plus some chicken wings and bread. It was pretty good. Everything here has a distinct different flavor, some sort of spice they use in almost all the meat. And they don't use a lot of Italian sauces like we do back in the US, so it always could use more and seems a little dry. Ashley loved the chicken and the pizza, so she ate well, along with Liz.
Today, I took the girls and took a taxi out to the Shilin apartment we are considering. There is a multilanguage preschool right next door, so I took a tour of it. It's a really great facility, with English in the morning and Chinese in the afternoon. I then took a taxi to Anthony's work and found out that the drive is doable, but a little long and taxi rides are more expensive than if we lived in Neihu or downtown. So we are still thinking about it, but probably won't take that apartment due to the commute. The preschool was great though and Ashley had so much fun playing with the kids while I toured the facility. We ate lunch with Anthony at his work at a place called Tai, Tai's - which means wife in Chinese. I am often called Tai, Tai. This afternoon I was supposed to take the girls and look at an apartment in Neihu, but that was cancelled at the last minute, so I woke them up from thier naps for no reason - UGH! So, we went over to Taipei 101 and did some grocery shopping, bread and drinkable yogurt - which has become the girls favorite way to get some calcium - flavored drinkable yogurt - yum....
We didn't do much over the weekend, some walking, waiting to hear on apartments (which we never did) and that's about it. With Liz feeling bad, we didn't venture out a lot. Monday we looked at some more apartments in a complex we liked, unfortunately, they were both ones we had already seen and said no to. So, that did us no good and wasted an afternoon of not working for Anthony. We took a long walk last night from an area called DaAn to the hotel, took us a long time and wore us out, my back started hurting a bit, but it was good to walk off some steam as I was pretty frustrated at the apartment situation. We ordered Pizza Hut for dinner, pizza plus some chicken wings and bread. It was pretty good. Everything here has a distinct different flavor, some sort of spice they use in almost all the meat. And they don't use a lot of Italian sauces like we do back in the US, so it always could use more and seems a little dry. Ashley loved the chicken and the pizza, so she ate well, along with Liz.
Today, I took the girls and took a taxi out to the Shilin apartment we are considering. There is a multilanguage preschool right next door, so I took a tour of it. It's a really great facility, with English in the morning and Chinese in the afternoon. I then took a taxi to Anthony's work and found out that the drive is doable, but a little long and taxi rides are more expensive than if we lived in Neihu or downtown. So we are still thinking about it, but probably won't take that apartment due to the commute. The preschool was great though and Ashley had so much fun playing with the kids while I toured the facility. We ate lunch with Anthony at his work at a place called Tai, Tai's - which means wife in Chinese. I am often called Tai, Tai. This afternoon I was supposed to take the girls and look at an apartment in Neihu, but that was cancelled at the last minute, so I woke them up from thier naps for no reason - UGH! So, we went over to Taipei 101 and did some grocery shopping, bread and drinkable yogurt - which has become the girls favorite way to get some calcium - flavored drinkable yogurt - yum....
posted by The Armstrongs at
8/10/2004
