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Tue, Nov. 21st, 2006, 11:50 am
Weird..
Now... nooooooooow Spanish and Chinese are starting to come out at the same time... Wonder why they waited so long to do that....?
The Taiwanese have GOT to knock it off with this salty dried plum business. I've just been given what I thought would be delicious orange juice only to discover that it is, in fact, orange, lemon and salty plum juice.
Sweet and sour and salt....
............together in my juice at last? Wed, Sep. 13th, 2006, 08:21 am
I'm sitting in my classroom. The clock just struck 8:ooam which means the children can stop cleaning and go to class. I'm not sure if it's a lesson in responsibility or cheapness on behalf of the schools, but there are no school janitors here. All schools are cleaned by the children in two 10 minute periods each day (morning and afternoon).
I just had four girls come into the english classroom grab brooms, mops and dustpans and stand in the doorway doing nothing. Instead they were looking at some sort of paper and discussing it passionately. I thought of asking if I could help them with something (regarding the paper) or asking them if they "shouldn't be cleaning?" instead...but I actually decided that it amused me that they were hiding out in here and slacking off...so I let them do it the whole time.
My life here is getting progressively more awesome...
I spent the weekend in Taipei meeting all the other researching Fulbrighters. Everyone I met was amazing and awesome at something or another and most of them were genuinely impressed by what we 12 ETA's are doing in I-Lan. The Taiwan ETA program actually has an amazing reputation (contrary to some pretentious and/or snobby comments I've heard from Antiochians). I shmoozed with an important Professor of Linguistics at UCLA and other Directors and Doctors as well.
In the course of one weekend I was offered three more jobs, all of which I am taking.
1. This friday night I will be giving an hour lecture at an engineering University in Taipei about how the students can improve their listening abilities. (the classes are conducted in English)
2. I will tutor a 5 year old girl once a week for $20 an hour. (and by tutor I mean read her English story books. Hey, it's what her mom wants!)
3. And finally, I will travel to Taipei every weekend to a famous TaiChi school and teach/tutor the instructors in English. In exchange I will receive weekend Tai Chi lessons, free accomodation and food.
I'm pretty happy about this. :)
Also, I'm seriously considering going for the Rhodes Scholarship.
Unlike languageing however, I've been slacking on the GRE stuff. Mon, Sep. 11th, 2006, 11:42 am
I'm super woman
Virgo is shooting steroids into my organization abilities. I'm even to-do listing "update to-do list". Activity, study and work opportuinites are coming exponentially this month. Or maybe they were always there, but virgo is ordering me to organize them all into possibility. I've got details crammed into and spilling out of every oraffice.
The pleasant part is that none of this is overwhelming.
Just sat back down to my computer after having run like an asshole down 3 flights of stairs to throw my trash into moderately idling garbage trucks.
Trash happens differntly here. You don't set it on a corner once a week. Two trash trucks drive down everyones street once a day. If you miss your 30 second window of drive by opportunity...your fucked until tomorrow. Do THAT too many days in a row and your 92 degree apartment starts smelling less than pleasant and resembling a Discovery Channel series on Insects.
How do you know when your 30 second window of opportunity has come and gone? They blast Ice Cream truck music from loudspeakers on the trucks.
No bigfoot bubble gum toe ice cream here folks. Just festering stench.
Well. I made it. It's great here. There's so much to say already but the jet lag and constant stimulation (which so far prevents me from sleeping)...are joining in a combination of super hero strength to preven me from writing anything with real substance right now. Here's what I DO have: *It's hot here. I mean, real hot. *The hotel room they put us up in (here in Taipei) is AMAZING. Everything (air, tv, bathroom light, mirror light, music) can be operated by buttons next to my bed. The bathtub has jets in it...which are orgasmic (really). :) *The time difference is exaclty 12 hours from Ohio time. (I'm ahead a day) *The other Fulbrighters are not nerds. (So far they all seem to have a great energy about them.) *For lunch (a couple hours ago) I realized that the extra-ly white rice...was actually, rice-size little fishies. :( *I can already say and understand two things in Mandarin. :) ("hello", "thank you"...and I've already forgotten "110" which is my room number and "excuse me") *The plane ride here was amazing because my friends gave me a bday gift (one week ago) that they absolutely insisted I wasn't to open till I was in the air. What ensued will be my first blog post....I photo documented the occasion.. I'll only say that they thought of EVERYTHING. :) and now I'm spent.... wait, almost forgot one, *I found chocolate cheese singles in a 7-11! NOW.....I'm spent.
What is Your Soul? (anime pics!!! and many results too!)
Angry- Your soul is angry. Your not a happy person, your very easily angered. Youre the type of person that can get very angry very fast, you may also be the type of person that gets drastic mood swings. You get mad at people frequently, and it makes you feel good, but you regret it later. You tend to bottle things up as well which is why these bursts of anger tend to happen. Your soul is just mad at everything which results in you getting mad regularly. But really you just have a hard time coping with things and use anger to cope, you may even be really sad.
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Where do you lay on the Good-Evil Scale? (Girls Only, amazing anime pics.)
20% Youre a good person with a amazing will. Strong with your beliefs you would argue with someone about your point of view, but once it got heated you would just give it up and agree with them. You don't like conflicts, but you would protect someone you love.
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Which Tarot Card Are You?
You are the Fool card. The Fool fearlessly begins the journey into the unknown. To do this, he does not regard the world he knows as firm and fixed. He has a seemingly reckless disregard for obstacles. In the Ryder-Waite deck, he is seen stepping off a cliff with his gaze on the sky, and a rainbow is there to catch him. In order to explore and expand, one must disregard convention and conformity. Those in the throes of convention look at the unconventional, non-conformist personality and think What a fool. They lack the point of view to understand The Fool's actions. But The Fool has roots in tradition as one who is closest to the spirit world. In many tribal cultures, those born with strange and unusual character traits were held in awe. Shamans were people who could see visions and go on journeys that we now label hallucinations and schizophrenia. Those with physical differences had experience and knowledge that the average person could not understand. The Fool is God. The number of the card is zero, which when drawn is a perfect circle. This circle represents both emptiness and infinity. The Fool is not shackled by mountains and valleys or by his physical body. He does not accept the appearance of cliff and air as being distinct or real. Image from: Mary DeLave http://www.marydelave.com/
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Ingmar Bergman
Your film will be 56% romantic, 26% comedy, 50% complex plot, and a $ 52 million budget. |
| Your life will be portrayed on film as an intense psychological drama, likely with some actresses screaming at the camera (Persona), or maybe a pleasant chess game between the Grim Reaper and a Crusader (The Seventh Seal). This Swedish director's films are intensely scrutinzed and studied in colleges all over the world to this day. This means that most Americans still don't understand his films! Still alive, he released in the U.S. in 2005 his first film in 23 years (Saraband), and he can still take on one more project to make your film biography. If curious, start with his films Wild Strawberries and Smiles of a Summer Night. |
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My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:
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You scored higher than 30% on action-romance |
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You scored higher than 21% on humor |
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You scored higher than 90% on complexity |
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You scored higher than 98% on budget |
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