Wednesday

"要不要幫忙綁鞋帶?"

Or "would you like help tying your shoelaces?" As the children's book I like so much asked me. Today, culture class consisted of practising speeches for the speaking contest. Of course. Speeches. So while people were talking, I whipped something up, not looking up any words except a few that I couldn't write.

In this contest (the morning after the Christmas dinner), I don't plan on doing any winning. Just as long as my abilities are demonstrated & established for what they're at, it's all good. Some of the sucky people got other people to write or translate their stuff. I am confident in one of the 1337 people or the old guard winning; however, we'll see. There's this sleeper called "Samantha" from down-island, she's very young & a little bit arrogant, but her Chinese is very good. But making a speech no-one understands & delivering it badly doesn't count so we'll see what happens. I worked a joke into mine, but only one person who could understand it who was paying attention at the time was Yu-jing, so she got a good laugh.

On Friday I am MC-ing an English drama competition. Saturday is choir practise & the Christmas dinner. Sunday is the speaking contest. Monday is the day before Winter Solstice, and we all know what happens on that day (aside from Calligraphy lesson), just my cryptic hint to you. On Tuesday in Scout we will be cooking some stuff--I still haven't figured out whether or not we have to make a fire from scratch. Next Wednesday is another Culture class, then Thursday is the performance with the orchestra... I just listened to the last two instrumental movements. They kind of suck & I hope I don't have to listen to them. Just to purify my ears I am now listening to "Time Stands Still (at the Iron Hill)."

Also, today I got home fast... I got on the bust right at 4:12, then it got to Nanshijiao station at 4:42, a perfect 30 minutes later. Crazy. Had a good chat with Amay a while ago. Also last night I was talking to one of Amy's (with no 'a') friends who is going to Canada later. So I told said person all about Vancouver & stuff they could do cheap, like visit Stanley Park, the good libraries, & whatnot. Put in a plug for Nanaimo & the Nanaimo bar. Of which I happened to have a picture. I'm glad our hometown has a cool/kickass dessert, not something stupid. Speaking of which, I am kind of hungry. I might have to read Maclean's as I've got all the blogs read an hour ago.