got up around 7:30. I was writing for nearly two hours. Had the bread from last night. They were funny.
Kir got online so I talked to her a bit. It was so much to talk about. Yj got online too but I had to go. I saud hi and bye. Went to the camp a bit after 10. It was locked. Couldn’t find the the key where they normal hide. I sat down on the bench out side and started to take some photos and dropped a lens cover. It got chipped and I screamed. I knew I was gonna do that one day. When I bought this camera in Melbourne, I was so excited but didn’t really check through and found out that there is a red dot on the screen. It doesn’t show in the photos but it bothers me every time I take photos. I went back to the shop and told them that I need to get a replacement or get the money back. My friend was very impressed that I got new one without arguing with them. But when I got the replacement, I was half way putting the strap and they wanted to talk to me about the paper work. I put my camera in the case and totally forgot about that. At my friend’s opening night, I almost put the strap around my neck-I would have died if I had done it. Well, it was only the lens cover so it was replaceable but I was sad. Someone gave it to me as a farewell gift. I was looking for the chipped piece. Cha came and noticed that I was panicked. “what happed?” I said “I’m looking for my.. contacts” he looked surprised. Because it was only the edge, I can still use the lens cover(-I haven’t checked the photos yet, I hope so..). We were chatting long on the bench outside and it was already lunch time. Cha had meeting at 1pm so we decided to have something easy-somen. It’s Japanese cold thin noodle which takes only 2 minutes to cook. When it’s hot and don’t feel like cooking or eating, we often have this. Typical summer food in Japan. Cha went out to get soup and spring onion. The long sleeved girl came when we just finished cooking so we invited her for lunch. She loved the noodle as well. We had decided to have “okonomiyaki”-Japanese pancake –tonight cause Cha got this Yum potato which is sort of hard to find. I invited the girl for dinner.
Cha had to leave for a meeting. I worked for 2 hours and went home to check out if my students are online again. Well, no one got online.
Got a phone call from Mr. swallow. Wait a minute, why does he have my number? Anyway he said that he found a paper which I might be able to use for my work. They went to the camp but no one was there. I said that I would come around in a minute but he says he would come to my place. In 5 minutes they were here. He was with two other guys, all in his age. They came on bikes which I thought sort of cute. Luckily I had a bottle of tea and the cups they use are so small so it was just enough. They said it was nice tea but it was just from 7 eleven. The paper he got was actually calendar. He said “Is it big enough?” well it wasn’t the size.. I had to tell them that this sort of paper would break easily. He said son of his friend there was a school teacher and he teaches Art. He might be able to find something for me. I showed them my work on my laptop and they seemed to be impressed. While we were talking one of them looked at the window and said something. Mr. Swallow said ”Oh it’s time for us to go. You know when the sun goes down, that’s the best time” “umm, okay” I said. It was for this..how do you call..? exercise like tai-chi. Mr. S stood up and suddenly started to show me the exercise. He said that he lost his weight with this. He used to have a big tummy but now it’s flat. “oh I might need that, too” I said but no one was listening. They were too busy showing the different type of exercise. They were leaving but found this chair outside. The small guy showed me the exercise on the chair for more than 10 minutes. Mr.S went in a shed. I thought he was being nosy but he came out with this stick and gave it to the guy. They said that they normally use wooden sword for this. They have a teacher who is 88 now but he is so fit, they say. This short guy had been doing it for a long time and he has made a new style as well. I told them that I should tape this demonstration and make DVDs to sell them in Japan.
After they left I had to leave right away, too. Went to a supermarket we went to yesterday and looked around. I never make a shopping list so I had to think what I should get. Then suddenly realized that they don’t have a souse for this pancake. Called cha to tell him so and he said he was thinking the same. He was on the way back from the meeting so I told him to leave it with me. Found this souse made out of vegetables. If you mix this with ketchup it should be good enough. I went to the cash desk and this lady queued up behind me. She had only one thing and looked in a hurry. I normally say “oh you can go a head if you have only one” but of course I couldn’t say this in Chinese. I looked at her and tried to say something but gave up. Instead I pretended that I forgot something and left there. It’s hard to be kind to people when you can’t talk! It was 400something gen so I took out my 1000 gen note. The casher says that I can’t use this sort of thing. I looked in the envelop with money but they were all 1000 notes. I looked in my wallet to see if there was anything else then she took out one of the 1000 gen note and said this is okay sort of thing. I thought that they didn’t have change for that so I looked the note I gave first and see if it was old. It wasn’t..what was wrong with it??
Now I’ve got all of stuff I bought in front of me. I realized that I have to pay for the plastic bag here but don’t know how to ask. Someone said “ni-hao” from behind. It was the old lady from su-den, stationary store. She told the casher that I don’t speak Chinese I guess. The casher said “2” I assumed it was the price for the plastic bag and I got it.
I saw two people walking to the camp. It was sue and the long sleeved girl. I said hi and passed them cause I was in a hurry. Sue says “where were you? I called many times” I was puzzled. Did she? I looked for my phone and couldn’t find it. Oooooops I lost it! I thought it must be in the supermarket. Oh no, I can’t ask them if they found my phone etc.. then Sue showed me my phone with a smile. I quickly strangled her. She was still smiling but said “where do you think I found this?” I was like eh? She found it on the ground. It was very muddy because of the typhoon and they had to avoid the puddle. So she was looking down and saw my phone. I said sorry,sorry and stroke her neck.
Cooked okonomiyaki and they loved it. Unfortunately you cant make many at once so someone had to keep cooking. Ah who comes atound often but don’t talk much came again and I offered the food. He said no as usual but everybody said this is so good he had to try and so did he. They said that I’m gonna be ”Legend”. I stayed for 30minutes and left. Wasn’t sure what to do tomorrow, whether I should leave for taichung or wait antil Friday morning but decided to decide tomorrow.
Walked with sue and the girl, I have to remember her name.. I’ve seen her so many times and she knows my name.. well, she was staying at Sue’s place. They invited me to come over but I had some things to do I said. The lady who gave me the mosquito bite ointment passed by. I asked sue to tell her that I really appreciated it and using it all the time. She said that she saw me shopping today. Well, I can’t do anything bad here, they all know what I’m doing. She told us to come over but I said maybe some other time. Went to the Bakery again. I told sue that they’ve been very kind and wanted her to tell them that I really like this town etc. but she didn’t want to go to the bakery. They had many customers so I didn’t talk to them that I ate the cake I dropped on the road but they seemed to be excited and gave me that cakes again.-this time in a plastic package which I can drop!
Pr was at home. I told him that I got free cakes and asked if he wanted to have some but he didn’t want. I told him that Mr. swallow came here today but he had no idea who it was. I described as much as possible but he didn't get it still and called Cha to find out. He was like"ohhhh!"Pr is pretty rich but Mr. S is like a milionaire and he is older. I wondered if he minded that Mr.S came here when he wasn't here. When he got off the phone he said "hage?" and pointed his head. I laughed cause that means "bald" in Japanese.
Kir got online so I talked to her a bit. It was so much to talk about. Yj got online too but I had to go. I saud hi and bye. Went to the camp a bit after 10. It was locked. Couldn’t find the the key where they normal hide. I sat down on the bench out side and started to take some photos and dropped a lens cover. It got chipped and I screamed. I knew I was gonna do that one day. When I bought this camera in Melbourne, I was so excited but didn’t really check through and found out that there is a red dot on the screen. It doesn’t show in the photos but it bothers me every time I take photos. I went back to the shop and told them that I need to get a replacement or get the money back. My friend was very impressed that I got new one without arguing with them. But when I got the replacement, I was half way putting the strap and they wanted to talk to me about the paper work. I put my camera in the case and totally forgot about that. At my friend’s opening night, I almost put the strap around my neck-I would have died if I had done it. Well, it was only the lens cover so it was replaceable but I was sad. Someone gave it to me as a farewell gift. I was looking for the chipped piece. Cha came and noticed that I was panicked. “what happed?” I said “I’m looking for my.. contacts” he looked surprised. Because it was only the edge, I can still use the lens cover(-I haven’t checked the photos yet, I hope so..). We were chatting long on the bench outside and it was already lunch time. Cha had meeting at 1pm so we decided to have something easy-somen. It’s Japanese cold thin noodle which takes only 2 minutes to cook. When it’s hot and don’t feel like cooking or eating, we often have this. Typical summer food in Japan. Cha went out to get soup and spring onion. The long sleeved girl came when we just finished cooking so we invited her for lunch. She loved the noodle as well. We had decided to have “okonomiyaki”-Japanese pancake –tonight cause Cha got this Yum potato which is sort of hard to find. I invited the girl for dinner.
Cha had to leave for a meeting. I worked for 2 hours and went home to check out if my students are online again. Well, no one got online.
Got a phone call from Mr. swallow. Wait a minute, why does he have my number? Anyway he said that he found a paper which I might be able to use for my work. They went to the camp but no one was there. I said that I would come around in a minute but he says he would come to my place. In 5 minutes they were here. He was with two other guys, all in his age. They came on bikes which I thought sort of cute. Luckily I had a bottle of tea and the cups they use are so small so it was just enough. They said it was nice tea but it was just from 7 eleven. The paper he got was actually calendar. He said “Is it big enough?” well it wasn’t the size.. I had to tell them that this sort of paper would break easily. He said son of his friend there was a school teacher and he teaches Art. He might be able to find something for me. I showed them my work on my laptop and they seemed to be impressed. While we were talking one of them looked at the window and said something. Mr. Swallow said ”Oh it’s time for us to go. You know when the sun goes down, that’s the best time” “umm, okay” I said. It was for this..how do you call..? exercise like tai-chi. Mr. S stood up and suddenly started to show me the exercise. He said that he lost his weight with this. He used to have a big tummy but now it’s flat. “oh I might need that, too” I said but no one was listening. They were too busy showing the different type of exercise. They were leaving but found this chair outside. The small guy showed me the exercise on the chair for more than 10 minutes. Mr.S went in a shed. I thought he was being nosy but he came out with this stick and gave it to the guy. They said that they normally use wooden sword for this. They have a teacher who is 88 now but he is so fit, they say. This short guy had been doing it for a long time and he has made a new style as well. I told them that I should tape this demonstration and make DVDs to sell them in Japan.
After they left I had to leave right away, too. Went to a supermarket we went to yesterday and looked around. I never make a shopping list so I had to think what I should get. Then suddenly realized that they don’t have a souse for this pancake. Called cha to tell him so and he said he was thinking the same. He was on the way back from the meeting so I told him to leave it with me. Found this souse made out of vegetables. If you mix this with ketchup it should be good enough. I went to the cash desk and this lady queued up behind me. She had only one thing and looked in a hurry. I normally say “oh you can go a head if you have only one” but of course I couldn’t say this in Chinese. I looked at her and tried to say something but gave up. Instead I pretended that I forgot something and left there. It’s hard to be kind to people when you can’t talk! It was 400something gen so I took out my 1000 gen note. The casher says that I can’t use this sort of thing. I looked in the envelop with money but they were all 1000 notes. I looked in my wallet to see if there was anything else then she took out one of the 1000 gen note and said this is okay sort of thing. I thought that they didn’t have change for that so I looked the note I gave first and see if it was old. It wasn’t..what was wrong with it??
Now I’ve got all of stuff I bought in front of me. I realized that I have to pay for the plastic bag here but don’t know how to ask. Someone said “ni-hao” from behind. It was the old lady from su-den, stationary store. She told the casher that I don’t speak Chinese I guess. The casher said “2” I assumed it was the price for the plastic bag and I got it.
I saw two people walking to the camp. It was sue and the long sleeved girl. I said hi and passed them cause I was in a hurry. Sue says “where were you? I called many times” I was puzzled. Did she? I looked for my phone and couldn’t find it. Oooooops I lost it! I thought it must be in the supermarket. Oh no, I can’t ask them if they found my phone etc.. then Sue showed me my phone with a smile. I quickly strangled her. She was still smiling but said “where do you think I found this?” I was like eh? She found it on the ground. It was very muddy because of the typhoon and they had to avoid the puddle. So she was looking down and saw my phone. I said sorry,sorry and stroke her neck.
Cooked okonomiyaki and they loved it. Unfortunately you cant make many at once so someone had to keep cooking. Ah who comes atound often but don’t talk much came again and I offered the food. He said no as usual but everybody said this is so good he had to try and so did he. They said that I’m gonna be ”Legend”. I stayed for 30minutes and left. Wasn’t sure what to do tomorrow, whether I should leave for taichung or wait antil Friday morning but decided to decide tomorrow.
Walked with sue and the girl, I have to remember her name.. I’ve seen her so many times and she knows my name.. well, she was staying at Sue’s place. They invited me to come over but I had some things to do I said. The lady who gave me the mosquito bite ointment passed by. I asked sue to tell her that I really appreciated it and using it all the time. She said that she saw me shopping today. Well, I can’t do anything bad here, they all know what I’m doing. She told us to come over but I said maybe some other time. Went to the Bakery again. I told sue that they’ve been very kind and wanted her to tell them that I really like this town etc. but she didn’t want to go to the bakery. They had many customers so I didn’t talk to them that I ate the cake I dropped on the road but they seemed to be excited and gave me that cakes again.-this time in a plastic package which I can drop!
Pr was at home. I told him that I got free cakes and asked if he wanted to have some but he didn’t want. I told him that Mr. swallow came here today but he had no idea who it was. I described as much as possible but he didn't get it still and called Cha to find out. He was like"ohhhh!"Pr is pretty rich but Mr. S is like a milionaire and he is older. I wondered if he minded that Mr.S came here when he wasn't here. When he got off the phone he said "hage?" and pointed his head. I laughed cause that means "bald" in Japanese.
It was 10th of October which was their national foundation day. We saw fireworks on TV and I told him that I love fireworks. I miss it a lot cause we can't buy them in Australia. told him how much my students were excited when we had fireworks in Japan and some of them were going to write a letter to the government to tell them how stupid it is to ban it. One of them actually tried to take them home which was found at the airport, of course. We were talking about how Chinese people are clever with hands and I mentioned that I saw this very intricate art work in the museum in Taipei. The museum was one of the best museum I’ve ever been. I want to take my family there when they come. Pr printed off the website of the museum for me. He is so kind. After 10:30 he said “I’ll stay here tonight” I said “oh ok” well, it’s his house.. I was glad that he stayed.
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