success! victory is mine

At 5:16 PM Friday evening (that's 2:16 AM that morning for you) the three postcards were simultaneously dropped into a mailslot. They will all travel by airmail, so now it is a race to see which will get to whom first (or if they will likewise arrive simultaneously. Please note I've taken the liberty of photoshopping out people's addresses for their privacy.

Wednesday

In culture class we did Chinese Gong Fu (a.k.a. kung fu in Wade-Giles romanization) and it was excellent. Our teacher studied with a personal bodyguard of Chiang Kai-Shek, former longtime president of Taiwan. At one point Kyle managed to pants Wil... he forgot that Wil very much liked wrestling and played it all through high school. Conseqently:

Choir was good, started in on a new song and I liked it... classical 4-part a capella church stuff. An Ave Maria I believe. I managed to go without my mother because her mouth was frozen from dental work.

Thursday

I forget what happened on Thursday, except that during school we practised relay running. Then after school I actually ran a relay with my classmates--we took third which was not bad I guess. Kenta & I watched a lot of the races, but then we went to my house and had dinner. He went with my mother to her Chinese traditional instrument band, and will begin learning Chinese fiddle.

Friday

On Friday, in the afternoon we had to perform the awful dance for the old people. It was made worse because we then had matching outfits... kind of like South Park's "Getting Gay With Kids" thing. Afterwards we shook hands with five centenarians... I hope they don't get sick. Afterwords, Scott & I went to his house, he filled out his ballot for the presidential election, me witnessing, then we went to the post office. You can't lick the stamps here, you must paste them (again addresses photoshopped out)... see picture for details:

Afterwards I watched "The Hours" with my host parents... of course this got me interested in Virginia Woolf. So now I'm reading all her work online in chronological order (currently just into The Voyage Out).

Saturday

Woke up a little sick Saturday morning, but choir was good... I maintained my voice by drinking about 4 bottles of water. Came home for a little while, then in the evening was the ROTEX-run Hallowe'en party. It was pretty fun and random, the food was pretty good. There was this one game where you had a group and one person had to collect stuff from others in the group (i.e. x watches, x socks)... so it went watches, glasses, shirts, socks, jackets, shoes, lipstick and then balloons. Then the tie was resolved by the groups yelling a lot. So we won, but I was a little hoarse afterward. All in all random and fun though.

Now I'm off to do some shoe-shopping with Alice & possibly see a movie.