"Since I'd be kissed by a man in either situation, I would still prefer to be the Prince"

The answers one gives to the questions one receives by Taiwanese people. This was while we were emceeing (M.C.-ing, or M.ingC.?) or perhaps 'hosting' the English Drama comp. at my school today.

This morning's "Three Principles of the People" (三民主義 sanminzhuyi) class, which I newly got, was a little interesting. I didn't really understand most of it, but I want to find out what it's like as it is 100% unique to Taiwan. Also, "someone teach me Chinese" class rocked a lot. Denise is awesome and has access to a huge library of children's literature, including the badass series "pi pi bear" or something... it's translated from British stuff. She lent me another, bigger, harder one today. So I have that much more to study--a whole lot of words to memorize including some new useful verbs & grammar. And lots of nouns. Taught her "onomatopoeia" & learned the Chinese word (which translates as "like sound word" or "similar sound word").

Played some good soccerness at lunch again today (after doing chinups of course). It was really hot though, I was sweating like crazy afterwards. Sang "White Christmas" so I think I have a handle on it. It's not as jazzy as I thought, but it will be good, in a nice key and whatnot. She said she'd photocopy it & give it to me today, but didn't, so w/e.

We were watching "The Emperor & the Assassin" in Chinese. You can get it at Rogers, but it's pretty dark & sad. And bloody and violent and awful. And a little long. Mmm... good stuff. But I had to leave early to 'prep' for the thing. So I actually was waiting around in the Academic Affairs office 1.5 hours before hand. The woman wasn't there at the time so I talked to Matt Llewellyn on MSN. It's been a while.

Linda (my M.C.ing buddy) decided that at the start we should just talk in each other's languages (because of course, since I can speak English I obviously should start in Chinese)... woohoo I guess. Later on when we were speaking in English, I sometimes had to translate one of my questions to Chinese when we were interviewing actors after. All in all it wasn't bad, a lot of the plays were stupidly similar though... some were different. One was a condension of Shakespeare's "Comedy of Errors" which I would say was the most hardcore for English. Another good one had a crappy story but man were they tight on the stagecraft. Like all the princesses were crossdressing guys too, for no reason. lol

Dwarf 1: "Who is the stupid man who suggested this?!" other dwarves (unison): "That man is you!" That play is my favourite though, I saw it so many times when they were practising it. Too bad Evanescence-girl didn't have a part.

Of course, because it was supposed to go from 3-5 it went to 6:30 and I got on a bus at 6:45... so I spent like 5 hours involved with a "2 hour event." I sort of wish I went to Chinese instead, but I always try to be loyal to my classmates & school over Rotary. Screw their principles, I like my classmates. And so am I known by many, like & respected my most thereof. teehee

Tomorrow, I'm busy with choir in the morning & an early afternoon for the Christmas Party, yay. Then Sunday morning is the speaking comp. Also, Bethany said some very interesting things about the Ama'/Soobus explosion. As always, post a comment. [1 hour 40 minutes]