it got cold. finally.

And by that I mean Taiwan cold, so like we could see our breath for a while outside Sun Yat-Sen. Oh yeah. That's about it.

Anyway, this morning choir practise was good, but looks like we're taking the same songs to the national final (as we're starting up practising them again)... at least this means I can keep working on my classical-choral voice, and I mean, I've gotten better since last time. Of course now practise time is valuable, so I may not be able to experiment with the pop music club. But I am enjoying life thoroughly right now.

Speaking of 'the cold,' my host mother mentioned it yesterday. So I reasoned, "well every time someone said it would be cold, it has been freakin hot." And thus didn't wear a coat. But I brought mon complèt to school, just wore a t-shirt and pants for P.E. though. Anyway, we played badminton which was kind of fun, but WAY too many people... taught Kenta some English stuff in English conversation, and did a brief Chinese class, talked too much English though~ changed into my suit, then hopped the MRT to S.Y.S. Saw Sarah, our Canadian English teacher, on the MRT and helped her do a crossword, even got a few (like "Bohr," "Iamb," and "Figaro" I hope is the Barber of Seville).

The event itself was suck. I mean, we talked to some random people, but it was long and boring. I also got interviewed by some reporters (of course my face is not t.v. material though)... the weird thing is, I like totally understood this one lady; but another one had NO idea how to say things I understood. One of these days I need to sit down with Denise though, and figure out all the different ways to say "how do you feel about" / "what's it like" or whatever, because there are a lot & more than one I didn't know has come up. That's a project for another day though. Did I mention I *haert* children's books? :p

Afterwards, we just kind of hung out, socialised with some people... Alex, Scott, Anna & I decided to go to Scott's to play "Worms: Armageddon." Boy was it awesomely fun... Alex & I teamed up against Anna & Scott... we thought she was out of practise, but somehow we got defeated badly. Every suggestion I made turned out in like the worst possible way, and it became kind of funny. Because Alex kept taking my advice. good times though. Returned home recently, just have been blogging. Will hit the sack a little earlier so I can be energetic for another stupid culture class tomorrow. Plus Scott is bringing his laptop for more hotseat play.

I'll also be going to choir practise in anticipation of the concert on the 2nd. Hoping to have a rocking New Year's but no solid plans as of yet. All in all a good day though the Rotary part wasn't good as usual. Exchange students rocked comme toujours. K out [40 minutes]

[edit:] PS I enjoyed Alleah's newest mega-long-post, which some of you might have been anticipating. Also, I read in Laura's blog that, quote, "Nicola committed suicide," and was wondering if anyone knew anything about this (whether it's true, a typo, or some sort of weird metaphor I don't understand)...