Some Succeed, Others Don’t

Sadly, my drama group was in the “others” category this year. We didn’t make it to the 2nd round. We were pretty disappointed. And we had such a good speech on the 3 R’s! Sad.

We left the school at 7:15 am and practiced, watched a few others, performed, then returned to school. One thing that made me very happy was lunch. We stopped at KFC on the way home. Yum, yum, yum! Chicken, French fries, and Pepsi. I was happy and the girls were too.

We spent the next 3 hours working on speeches. We thought we had a good chance of going to the second round. They accepted 19 of the 37 teams. 2 of the speeches were pretty good. Then we only had 10 minutes before we had to return to hear the results. So I told everyone to leave me alone and I blasted out a speech (using some other material). I tried to answer 3 questions with one speech. It wasn’t that great, but it was okay.

I was grateful for my late nights/early mornings in college when I wrote papers just in time to run to class :) It came in handy yesterday.

Now we will start preparing for other things. Scott has a topic for his next competition. It is a little strange. There are 3 different geographic areas and 2 of them have detailed topics. Our topic: tell a story. Huh?

Oh yeah. Last night I went out with Emily. We rode the MRT into Kaohsiung and had dinner. I purchased a card to use at the MRT. It’s easy. If I need to add money I can use a machine. No Chinese necessary! We had to wait 20 minutes for a table so we went to a department store. I felt like I was back home! Tommy, Nine West, Clinique. But at RIDICULOUS prices. $2000 or $3000 NT for a pair of shoes or shirt. (That’s $66 to $100 American) No, thank you!

The food was delicious. I had spaghetti!! (Mom, yours is still the best) And they gave us salad and bread with it. Don’t tell my Dad but I dipped my bread in the sauce. Emily made me laugh when she stabbed her bread with the fork and ate it. Is that allowed in American culture? I don’t think it is.

We also had salad with mango dressing. It was very tasty. Emily was frustrated with the fork. She wanted her trusty chopsticks. It did take her a lot longer to eat it.

Our final stop was the high speed train station. I told Emily I had not purchased a ticket for my weekend trip to Taipei. She was worried. But now I have both tickets! And I owe Emily money. I didn’t have that much cash on hand. What a good friend :)

Random thing – I think I bird may have just gotten stuck in my air conditioner. No I don’t hear it. But it was making funny noises and I could hear something moving in there. Hm, maybe it is still there. Ha ha!