Wednesday January 30th, 2013
Begin the morning with a Skype with my sister to play her
‘Happy Birthday’ on my ocarina? Heck yes! Great start to the day! ^_^
For the afternoon I went to my club’s Rotary meeting for
lunch and my monthly allowance. I did have to give a little speech in Chinese
about my time in Taiwan. Can’t say it was any good but hey, I gave it my best
shot.
Next up was taking the subway to a place called “Xinbeitou.”
Here I met up with Akiko, Erin, Will, Ellie, Leo and Kelly at a public library.
We spent several hours just sitting down and reading some lovely English
novels. I chose one titled Pirates! by Celia Rees. A fourth of the way
in I got hooked and wanted to finish it all but the time to leave was nearing.
Therefore I signed up for a library card and checked it out. I was reluctant at
first because Xinbeitou is super far away from my home and I didn’t want to
travel all the way there just to return the book. That is why I became
delighted when I found out I could return it to any public library. That means
there’ll be one near by house, meaning I can continually check more books out, meaning…a foreseen future of decreased
boredom at high school. Fluffin’ yes! >:D
For dinner we all went out for a traditional Taiwanese
dinner. But not just any Taiwanese dinner. According to Leo, it’s what
Taiwanese people ate in the 80’s.
See this bowl? It’s diameter is greater than the span of
your forearm. It is ginormous! The real shocker is that it’s only the medium
size! Good grief! Delicious but holy sha-moley that’s big!
Our cheerful group of friends! The man who took this photo
had his own camera with him. A big camera…a really, really big camera. A.K.A. He was a cameraman. Guess what he was
filming? The restaurant most likely for a news channel. (Taiwanese news
frequently talks about car crashes or local food of some sort.) That’s fine and
dandy but his camera was pointed right at our faces. Of course he would film
only us and not the rest of the restaurant’s customers. XD He pointed his behemoth
of a camera at each of our individual faces for a time as we all quietly
ignored him. At one point his machine was two inches away from Erin’s head.
Talk about interference of bubble space! XD
The entire meal was quite delectable! It’s contents were
mainly noodles, broth, vegetables, shrimp and various other ingredients. Somehow
we were able to drain the bowl almost empty. I can’t take much credit for that
because I didn’t eat much. Just imagine if we would’ve gotten a large size
bowl! I think that’ll feed an entire village!
After the meal we headed to a drink shop for dessert. Most
people got bubble milk tea but my choice settled upon lemon green tea to soothe
my throat. When I woke up today I felt a sickness threateningly present and
that grew throughout the day. I had hoped some nice hot tea would help out but
in the end I could barely sip an eighth down before throwing it away. It tasted
more like hot, sour, unsweetened lemonade than tea. I wanted tea… Sad face… But
heck at least I tried it even if it didn’t help.
Evil, wonderful plans were cooked up for a musical project
that may occur between tonight’s company. Guess who was the mastermind? …
*points to self* Ahaha! That’s right! Yours truly did! I don’t want to spoil
anything in case it does happen but I’ll say this at least, it’ll be
internationally themed…with dancing. Chew on that for a bit. ;D
Ok, it’s really late and I finally finished packing for
tomorrow’s Rotary trip to Hualien. Part of me is screaming “GO TO BED ALREADY
ANDREA!” while another part is beckoning “read the pirate book. You know you
want to.” Gosh darn it! Oh well, good night one and all! Sweet dreams to ya!
^_^
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