Happy Hallowe'en you all

Well, as I mentioned today I am celebrating Hallowe'en by going hiking on the coast all day with Scott & English Claire.

As for yesterday it was indeed pretty good. Scott just randomly called me on Friday & said "hey want to go to the national palace museum," then something in chinese which meant: "and then afterwards go watch a movie with Ivonne & Tiffany?" Ivonne & Tiffany being two of my 4 favourite middle-aged women, I was definitely stoked. The day began with choir, the flooding mostly having subsided. I had to open a lot of doors and windows that other people lacked the initiative to because the room was surprisingly hot.

Practise was good... the guy from TaiDa came again to help tenors practise. We keep adding more little layers of interpretation; articulation & dynamics. The problem is it's a little slow because some people aren't so good. Like I'm not sure how much they sing (esp. the guys) before right now, because I think the junior high school choir is more for unchanged voices. Not sure though.

Came home then headed with Scott to the museum. We bought this dessert which is one of the few things he can eat, and then headed in. There wasn't much new stuff, but we saw some (apparently) famous calligraphy that was REALLY messy cursive (we could only make out 2 to 5 characters of all 700 or so on it). Also there was a nice long painted scroll that was new that I thought was sweet. We got in free because we're foreigners and it's "Vist Taiwan Year."

Met up with Ivonne, Tiffany & her husband David. We all decided (because Ivonne was really keen on it) to go see "The Forgotten" as "the Incredibles" is not yet in theatres, gr... Had dinner at Subway, which was pretty good, and talked with them a lot waiting for the show to start. I saw this hilarious sign:

The people at the store didn't want me to take a picture because they thought I would use it with some fakes factory so they could manufacture phony copies of the new styles at the store. Because apparently that's actually a bit of a problem here.

The movie was good in that I got really into it... I would say the ending was weak, but by that time it was all that I could take. I am not, as you may know, cut out for these scary types of films. I would have preferred Dodgeball, even if "you feel stupider when you come out of the theatre than when you go in." (scott's friend) Afterwards we talked a while longer then headed to our respective homes. On the MRT we were talking about how at Rotary, Scott is a "leader" of exchange students and I am "vice-leader..."

This basically means that Vino, a Rotary woman, who is standing right in front of everyone and whose English is good, will turn to Scott & say, "Will you please tell them all to do [something random & stupid]." He must then parrot it to them, but they're standing right there. Which puts him in a dumb position, because not only are things often random &/or stupid, but she could really do it herself. It's Taiwan culture though. Now it's hiking time.