Charlotte's Birthday Party with Beef Noodle Soup

Happy birthday~

I cooked the Beef Noodle Soup for every members in my home stay and all the members in the car pool.

My home-stay parents prepared steak beef for me. I boiled the beef a little, then I fried them with sliced onions, diced garlic, gingers, tomato, and a few spring onions. After that, I poured the half fried beef with all the ingredients back to the pot with the Stewing Spice Package which I brought from Taiwan and poured some wine for cooking. I boiled them by gentle fire for about half an hour, then poured some "Soy Sauce", which was prepared by my home-stay parents. ( I believed they got everything I need, instead of stowing spice. ) Later, with boiled needles, a pot of perfect beef noodle soup were just ready. Delicious.



It's interesting because they don't have big bowl for needle soup that we usually have in Taiwan. So we were served by that kinds of dishes. They said the soup are served by that.


Also I fried some cabbage, American Cabbage. It tasted a little hard and crispier than Taiwanese cabbage.


Could that be the present for Charlotte?

Oh, we got a cake for Charlotte. April 7th is her birthday.

Children Musuem

$13.5 for each person is not quite cheap, but for a child, I will probably say, it worths it.





It's large to finish it by one day if you want to play thoroughly.



When I got on the real-size train, I could feel the shaking and sound of the train, as well as the passing scenery images on the windows. It made me feel like being in a real train. Fabulous!

Deliney is a cute girl, who is always so energetic and smart. She learned language very fast, especially curse words in Chinese, like "Pig head".



So far, the children is much more fun comparing to the museum in Taiwan. They really made a lot of interesting game rooms for children, and children actually enjoy the game and learn!

Lucky Cookie

Charlotte got her lucky cookie in Keystone mall. The lucky numbers for her are just shown on the lucky cookie paper.



Go get a lottery ticket with all the numbers on it!

Telemarketing @ Silouan Green

Silouan Green is a person, is also the name of the company which I work for as an intern in Indianapolis.

Silouan is a great guy. After surviving from air crash several years ago, he wrote a book about appreciating life and composed several songs by himself.

Silouan Green, the company, was established 7 years ago by Silouan, providing designing service including business card, web development as well as TV spot.

My supervisor, Matt Rogue, asked me to do telemarketing. I've called more than 200 calls for potential customers about the services we provide. In 40% to 50% of the calls I just gave voice mail and there are 10% of those I pretended to be one of their friend and found a solution for them. There are only 10 or so people really listened what I said and responsed. The rest of the calls were rejected by simply "not interested in" and being hang up.



There was one guy even telling me that he couldn't understand me because my broken English made it more difficult.

It was boring but challenging. I believe I will learn a lot from this job.

Orientation at Bulter University

It's quite a long day today. We spent a whole morning in the Butler University with some information about internship and a whole afternoon sitting in the tour bus touring around the Indianapolis city.



Butler University is not quite big, but it's a beautiful campus to me. The mascot, which is Bulldog, named Blue, is everywhere in the campus. You can see from the picture here.






There are lots of places I think I have to take a visit, like Children's Museum, Circle Monument, the Canal, or some other places close to the downtown.

Neat! Indianapolis

It's Neat!

It's a slang for good things in Indianapolis. Everybody says that.

I bought my prepaid card for my cellphone, costing me $37.10 for 140 minutes. I hope I can keep in 140 minutes for 2 months. Charlotte got worse. Her cellphone is for CDMA system in Taiwan, so her cellphone can't be fit with the sim card of T-Mobile here. After buying a new cellphone by $29.9, everything goes well.



Sally and David, my home stay parents, cooked riced with beef tonight. It was quite like Taiwanese Beef Stowed rice. Amazing.

David was a lieutenant in the army when he was in Vietnam. But no, he didn't kill anyone there, he built roads, bridges there.



I ordered a pair of seals with their names in Chinese on them. They were quite surprised that we brought some gifts. Although they can't read Chinese, I believe they will like these seals (stamps). Jason got a can of Wu-Loon tea and some post stamps.