"In Japan, even the catgirls are ninjas"

Friday featured more ... actually I have no idea what I did on Friday. Oh, well I stayed up 'til 5:30 AM the previous day due to an unneeded afternoon nap. Oh well, I must have done something. I probably hung out with Scott, but I might have not done anything of importance all day.

Saturday I definitely watched anime with Scott, plus it involved some of him packing and whatnot. He threw out a lot of clothes so he could fit everything into his duffle bags, which are falling apart. We fixed them with tape, kind of, but Taiwanese people don't have lots of useful household essentials such as duct tape.

In the evening, we went to a Rotary event organized by Claire's club. Originally, we had been invited to dinner by Su ma, but then Vino decided to turn it into a Rotary thing, complete with going to a random crappy hotel restaurant with no home-cooked food whatsoever. The girl going to Japan was there, plus Scott, Claire, & I, people from all the host families, Medicare, and some random Rotarians, not to mention PP Water & Vino. I also got to meet Amy's daughter, Joy, who recently returned from exchange to Texas.

It was an ok event, and some of the food was actually good (after we got ketchup to dip it in). I spent part of it translating speeches for Claire's mom, who was visiting from England. For kicks, when they did English I translated it into Chinese. Afterwards I went back to Scott's, and we watched more anime... the end of Escaflowne (overall series is good, but the ending is crappy) for starters. Su ma gave me a set of children's stories about the Eight Immortals, so now I can figure out the significance of those places we visited & the little statues I saw at the National Palace Museum.

Then we watched a Rurouni Kenshin (Samurai X) OVA & man it was high quality. I was impressed to the max by the quality of animation. Went to bed around 5. Scott woke me at 11ish by poking me in the head repeatedly until I got up. Threw the nearest available projectile (a pillow) at him. Moral of this story: don't wake me up if I am sleeping near/holding something that looks like it would make a painful missile weapon, but other than that, go for it.

We had breakfast/lunch while watching an awesome movie on TV. We had to leave for the airport before finishing so I must go buy it or something. Man it was fun. The part where we carried Scott's somewhat heavy bags (the two together weighed 44 kg) down the 5 flights of stairs at Su Jia.

Claire, her mother, and Kenta all happened to be leaving that day. Yujing had left earlier so I didn't get to see her, but Ivonne was there. Got Kenta's email, and more information. It seems I may be able to carry on my guitar; thus, wont be sending it to get broken at extra charge. Afterwards took a bus back, a different cheaper one which goes up to the middle of the red line. I think it's slower but it doesn't matter as I won't be busing to the airport any longer.

Scott left at Terminal 2 & it turns out I do too now. It's a lot nicer, kind of, but Terminal 1 has way fewer people & I remember it from arriving there/seeing Raph & (almost) Anna off. Had dinner with the Zhangs & one of their random girl-relatives that the children brought back from the south. We went to an all you can eat barbecue place & it was pretty good. I wonder how much it cost, but it was a good deal, considering how hardcore they ate.

Today I've just been chilling at home. I started playing Master of Magic again, because it involves strategy & the gameplay is just so enjoyable, even 15 years after release (or almost) it doesn't matter how midi the sound is, or how pixelated the graphics are, it's a brilliant game. Didi is going to some kind of summer school again now. I don't understand why, as he just wrote the high school entrance exams, and thus doesn't have a big test for anohter 3 years. Even the people preparing for the college exam start later than that. Whatever--it sucks to be a student in Taiwan, so I am glad Hannah considered my advice & is moving to New Zealand soon.

Anyway, see you all later.

Oh, and Maddox made a hilarious post about blogging.