Thank you for the music

Well, today was long and random in a lot of ways. I started by waking up at about 6:22, whence I proceeded to take a shower & have some bread for breakfast. I got on the Red 2 at 7:03 & arrived at Yuanshan MRT about an hour later. Rode to Jiantan (next station) then got off, and found the 260 bus to Yangmingshan. Saw lots of university students... Taiwanese university girls are hot. Indeed.

I finally got to the end station at Yangmingshan around 8:48, so only like 1 hour 45 minutes there... did I mention I didn't get a seat on either of the buses? lol. I had a while to wait as Ms. Lin (a.k.a. fanfan) was coming to pick me up at 9:10. It was a really, really nice day & the scenery was beautiful; there was even a cool wind. The mild hint of sulphur in the air didn't help things, but I didn't mind much as it seemed almost clean compared to Taipei air. Mmm... mountains. This randomly reminds me of the time me & Zed went hiking last summer.

Having arrived at the school I proceeded to give my crappy presentation to the grade 5 class about Vancouver. They seemed really interested in the talk of hockey players though. Afterwards we got to see Fanfan's pics of her trip to Vancouver (discussing said voyage was how I met her in the first place). Apparently she has no husband but dumped her boyfriend recently, which doesn't explain how she ended up with 2 kids my age. Whatever. I was then compelled to go outside and play basketball with the children. They have a little track and a little basketball court, all in miniature, thus I could just barely make a slam dunk--impressing them muchly.

Subsequently, I taught a grade 1 english class. Did I mention that asian small children are cute? Not to the extent of Zed's CUTEST KITTEN EVER (see reference) but still very much so. I read them stories and sang them songs... this one girl kept saying "tenor" in chinese and adding a number every time I sang a high note, lol. Afterwards they didn't want me to leave... I literally had little people clinging to my legs. Turns out I can walk with 50-lb bundles of joy attached though, w00t. Following this I had lunch with Fanfan & then took the Red 5 + MRT back to Wanfang.

At school I went to random choir practise in the middle of the day for a while. Then I was going to go to PE, but we weren't doing sports, just getting measured for heigh & weight & eyesight & the likes again... BUT the teacher said I wasn't to do so, so I left and helped my Chinese teacher translate something from Chinese to English. This was very challenging to the mind but likewise quite interesting & fun. AFterwards I was just like "oh man, my brain is tired." It seems I can find the senses of Chinese words I didn't know before and find the exact English matches with my mind (that show up in her pocket dictionary after I called them). This is a repeatable phenomenon. And 'twas an interesting experience.

Tuesday & Wednesday were boring and not worth mentioning. This post somhow took an hour and twenty minutes to write. In case you were keeping track, I spent like 4 hours on buses and MRT today, w00t. K out