Weird things about myself

I read someone's blog who had been tagged to share 5 weird things about themselves, so now I am tagged. But how on earth can I just list five? I live in Asia, there are a lot of weird things about me.
1. My 2nd and 3rd toes on my left foot are stuck together
2. I have eaten dog more than once and I like it.
3. Dancing in my kitchen is one of my favorite activities.
4. Coffee, tea, chocolate, dark sodas, and headache medications are off limits because caffeine gives me migraines.
5. I have curly hair (that my not seem weird to you, but it Asia it is very peculiar).

So now you have been tagged. What are five weird things about yourself?

This is our kitchen/dining room that actually flows right into the living room. I am quite thankful for counters, and sink with hot water, and our avocado green refrigerator. The purple pillow is in the chair because I was practicing writing and the table is too tall so I needed more leverage. That is my roommate over in the corner.

If you were to ever come visit us, you would sleep here. It is a small room, but the bed sleeps two and there is an AC.

Here is the rest of my room. The fan that you see is just about to be out of season!! I am finally sleeping under covers with the fan on low. My room opens up onto our balcony which has the wonderful function drying clothing. Last night I stood on the balcony and watched fireworks that were being shot off at a nearby park. It was probably the best display I have seen here so far.

This is my bed. . . My bed is really more than a place to sleep. In college I picked up the habit of studying on my bed, and it continues. Currently on my night stand, or on the floor actually, is the book "1421" by Gaven Menzies. It is good so far. If you are into history then I recommend it.

Turn your head again. This is our extra bathroom with a squatty. It also has a shower and a sink, but the water from the sink flows onto the floor so we don't really use it.

This is a different view of the living room. The shelf and the lamp in the back is a new addition that will be leaving in about 7 months when our friends return, but it looks cute for now.

This is our living room. It is quite spacious so it makes a great place to do exercise videos, I don't even have to move the couch back. We have a rock garden over by the window, but it is currently covered by stuff we are storing. The water cooler on the left is the a necessary item for our hydration. There are two people living in our apartment and we go through one bottle every two days.

You will have to turn your head for this one because I uploaded my pictures wrong and couldn't get it turned around. This is our laundry room. If you think you see two washing machines, you are right. We are storing one for a friend while they are temporarily back in the States. In my old apartment I had to turn the water off and on during the different stages of washing. This one does it on its own and it is so wonderful.

I have been living in my apartment for almost four months now so I figured it was about time to give you a tour. This is the office. My little desk has the black rolly chair, it is quite fun! Out the window is a hospital, though not an hospital that foreigners can go to so it isn't really a convenient neighbor.

All South East Asian languages (and English) say, "Peace, Prosperous, Harmony"

I want to say that this close one is in Malaysia and the far one that is kind of blue is in Indonesia, but I'm really not sure, I got kind of confused.

This is some other building in China, not sure what because didn't read the sign.

This is the Summer Palace in Beijing. It looked more spectacular than this, but the flash kind of messed it up.

This is the gateway to a light tour of most famous buildings in South East Asia. They were actually really pretty and it was a beautiful early fall evening. There was fun, exotic music playing in the background which made it enjoyable for one whose body constantly moves to whatever beat is in the air. In this picture you can also faintly see some of the flags of the various countries.

Here is a closer up view of the roast chicken. Its poor head is a little twisted, but since it is about to be eaten, which is the worse fate? It tasted really good and was nice and moist.

I went with some friends to the ASEAN Expo International Tourism and Food Festival. We were all expecting foods from all the different represented South East Asian countries and were a little disappointed to only find food that we could find in the night food courts of our city. I ate things I had never tried though. We had roast chicken that was wrapped in paper and cooked in clay, a food that kind of resembled corn bread stuffing that was stuffed inside a little woven bag, and some sour tofu (my least favorite).

These are my friends who took me to visit the cave. We had to drive a ways in the mountains and the little boy isn't used to riding in cars. I felt so sorry for him when he got sick. He really didn't want to get back in the car.

This is a picture of the boat infront of us exiting the caves. We sat on benches on little rafts while our driver steered us through the three doors with a long pole. After the ride we stopped and ate the local food. We had some little river fish that you eat whole, head and all. I normally kind of like those, but these were really bitter.

These are the banks where you board the boats and see the beautiful mountains.

During National Day holiday I visited 3 Door Caves with some friends. Here is the first door.

Fashion Blunders

Though the picture is blurry, I think the the blunder is obvious. I saw this riding the bus one day and had to take a picture because I thought my little sister would appreciate it. These open toed stilts are common among the short Asian women. 

This is the tugboat that pulled us across to the other side. Cute huh?

I have become very accustomed to riding countryside buses and I actually really enjoy it. Yesterday I had a new experience. The road that we were driving on suddenly went into the river. Of course the bus stopped before this happened, we all got of the bus and then road a raft to the other side where there was another road. I guess it really isn't that exciting, but it was certainly different.

Standing in front of the school gate with a group of students who lived too far away to go home for the weekend.

Last weekend I visited a school in the countryside. This is one of the girls we got to tell stories to.