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I saw this on Megs' livejournal. As always, instances of "journal" have been changed to "blog." Try it, if you'd like:

Reply with your name and I will write something about you.

I will then tell what song[s] remind me of you.

Next, I will tell you who you remind me of, celebrity/animated or otherwise.

Last, I will try to name a single word that best describes you.

Put this in your blog

Anyway, on Friday a lot of stuff happened. In fact, I put in a 21-hour day, while still managing to maintain sleep of about 9 hours a night... Thursday evening I found myself at Scott's again hanging out with him & Luke (made Luke watch Rejected). Friday morning everybody had to meet at some side entrance to City Hall & we then proceeded to enjoy the suckiness that is being in a large group organized by Taiwanese people.

Got to see all the exchangees & at various points talk to outbounds, w00t. We all went to the 89th floor of 101, which is a wussy three hundred something metres up, but you can still see the bridge north of Danshui on a clear day. It was not a clear day.

Later on we roamed around the mall part at the bottom of 101... I went to the big bookstore with Ivonne & we talked a bit. Subsequently all returned to the basement of City Hall for lunch. Samantha, Nastasha, Katie, & I were situated at the important table with some random Rotarians, apparently because the mayor would be there later; we were expected both to not make trouble and be able to speak some Chinese. There was a call for entertainment so a couple people including myself went up (on the promise of prizes) and hit up the crowd. Eventually the Mayor did indeed come.

We were supposed to ask him questions, so I asked him whether he wanted to be the President in the future (all presidents of taiwan since the jiang rule ended have served as mayor of taipei before their election, just as a trend, not a rule) but he dodged my answer like a true politician. Later we 'discovered' Taipei by being inside this little museum, instead of free to roam the city on our vacation. The movie was nice, because it was so badly done it was clearly propoganda, so it wasn't like insidious or anything. The Japanese lady was there, which always makes my day.

After everything wrapped up, Scott went home to pack, Claire went off to cram school (paid for by Rotary... *chinstroke*) and other people either went off places or headed off in a big group to hang out. I went with 4 girls to a coffee shop where we had a long, interesting conversation. About 3 hours long.

After I got home, I had dinner and then started packing... and packed more, and more. I have a lot of stuff, incl. too many clothes. I really want to send a box of stuff back, to make room. Somewhere in there I wrapped some presents to Amy & Joe, and needless to say finished very late. Still got my sleep in though.

Yesterday I moved host families. It's far away from everythiny now. Also, carrying several trips of quite heavy bags up 5 flights of stairs was not exactly fun (though I suppose it counts as exercise. In the evening we went to some sort of New Year's event at the company that supplies lunch boxes to my new host father's schol. The karaoke was bad, for the most part, although food was o.k. Major plus: my bedroom has a piano in it. w00t w00t w00t ...

I spread the writing of this post over more than 6 hours. Most of it was spent enjoying the silliness of ubersite.com--certainly over-the-top but not suitable for everyone. lol

K out