Here's a short video with some highlights I've managed to capture on film this past month.
Scene 1: K-Pop star in the making
Scene 2: If only you could see what was going on behind the camera...
Scene 3: New school pet
Scene 4: Ruth interviews the awesome PE teacher while another kid goes BANANAS in the background. His faces are priceless.
Here's the transcription for Scene 3:
Student: What are you filming?
Me: The chicken.
Student: Huh?
Me: The chicken. See?
Me: Whose chicken is it?
Student: I don't know. It's been here for a week.
Me: Really???
Shortly thereafter, the school janitor offered to kill the chicken for me.
I politely declined.
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Monday, January 17, 2011
Vacation and Jiufen
T'was the day before vacation and all through the town,
Everyone was anxious, busy bustling around.
Red couplets were hung from the doorways with care
In hopes that lucky money would soon be there.
Children were finished with their testing in school,
Now sleeping at their desks they had begun to drool.
Responsibilities finished, my bags all but packed,
I settle into my desk chair with an Asian-style snack.
WINTER BREAK STARTS IN 2 DAYS!
To start things off, the other ETAs and I will spend 3 days attending the Fulbright Midyear Conference in Taroko Gorge National Park, known as the "Grand Canyon" of Taiwan. FSE always puts us up in fancy hotels with the best meals, and this trip will be no exception. See and be envious: Silks Place Taroko.
The following day, a few of us will be taking off to my beloved country of Thailand for a little R&R in the sunshine. While the rest of the group heads north to hills of Chiang Mai, Dante and I will be making our way to the south for a 3 day snorkeling trip on the (mostly) uninhabited Similan Islands, off the coast of Phang Nga. We'll spend a night visiting my host family in Rayong and hopefully do a little more island hopping / ancient ruins exploring / sunning before flying back to Taiwan on February 2nd - Chinese New Year's Eve! Then it's Chinese New Year, my birthday, and a train trip south along the west coast of Taiwan, hitting up Taichong, Tainan, Kaohsiung, and Kending before school starts again on the 14th.
It's gonna be busy and hopefully full of sunshine and red envelopes full of lucky money! Keep your eyes peeled for pics!
Due to an English Village scheduling mistake, we ended up with an early vacation day last Thursday! Dante and I headed north to the foggy mountaintop village of Jiufen.
The town of Jiufen, one cafe in particular, was the inspiration for Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki's animated film "Spirited Away." If you've ever seen the film (and if you haven't, you should!), the likeness is pretty unmistakable.
Everyone was anxious, busy bustling around.
Red couplets were hung from the doorways with care
In hopes that lucky money would soon be there.
Children were finished with their testing in school,
Now sleeping at their desks they had begun to drool.
Responsibilities finished, my bags all but packed,
I settle into my desk chair with an Asian-style snack.
WINTER BREAK STARTS IN 2 DAYS!
To start things off, the other ETAs and I will spend 3 days attending the Fulbright Midyear Conference in Taroko Gorge National Park, known as the "Grand Canyon" of Taiwan. FSE always puts us up in fancy hotels with the best meals, and this trip will be no exception. See and be envious: Silks Place Taroko.
The following day, a few of us will be taking off to my beloved country of Thailand for a little R&R in the sunshine. While the rest of the group heads north to hills of Chiang Mai, Dante and I will be making our way to the south for a 3 day snorkeling trip on the (mostly) uninhabited Similan Islands, off the coast of Phang Nga. We'll spend a night visiting my host family in Rayong and hopefully do a little more island hopping / ancient ruins exploring / sunning before flying back to Taiwan on February 2nd - Chinese New Year's Eve! Then it's Chinese New Year, my birthday, and a train trip south along the west coast of Taiwan, hitting up Taichong, Tainan, Kaohsiung, and Kending before school starts again on the 14th.
It's gonna be busy and hopefully full of sunshine and red envelopes full of lucky money! Keep your eyes peeled for pics!
Due to an English Village scheduling mistake, we ended up with an early vacation day last Thursday! Dante and I headed north to the foggy mountaintop village of Jiufen.
View from Jiufen
The town of Jiufen, one cafe in particular, was the inspiration for Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki's animated film "Spirited Away." If you've ever seen the film (and if you haven't, you should!), the likeness is pretty unmistakable.
We spent the afternoon drinking fancy "Oriental Beauty" tea at Jiufen's oldest tea house, wandering through the small alleys filled with touristy crap, and eating the famous Taro Ball Soup.
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| Fancy tea house |
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| We sat at a weird bed table that had a built-in charcoal pit and tea serving tray |
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| Good taro ball soup with an even better view! |
Thursday, January 13, 2011
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