Weekend Wonders

I don’t really have any “wonders” to report on. I just needed a word so I could have some alliteration in my title! (Anyone unsure of that word? I guess I really am an English teacher :)

Friday night I lounged around reading a book and watching TV. Then I went to church for a baptism. Scott asked me to sing a song with others for it. I’d never heard the song before! He gave me sheet music that morning and I found a recording online so I was ok (but not totally comfortable). It was “I’ll Find You My Friend”. He thought it was a typical YW song. Do any of you know it? I do now!

The person getting baptized didn’t come. So we sang a hymn (conducted by Nathan = very adorable) and had a prayer then ate some treats.

Already forgot what I did after that! I was at the church for maybe 2 hours. I got a ride with Scott’s family.

On Saturday, I woke up early again. So not cool! Then I let myself get sucked into a book. I knew I shouldn’t, but it was so good! That’s right “was”; I finished it. :) I’m not going to think about buying the next one in the series. I’ve got to stay on top of work and church stuff.

Then in the afternoon I went to church by a new route. Actually, I got there super fast because I rode behind Scott. If they were late, he had to buy everyone lunch. And it was very close – 3 minutes to spare. At first I was going to let him drive without me on the last leg. Then I decided that wasn’t fair. I was the YW pres. and shouldn’t be late either. Plus I was leaving on time but stopped at their house and we didn’t leave for 10 minutes.

Anyway, we all got there in one piece. And we piled into a van and headed to downtown Kaohsiung. We saw a movie. I tried to warn them it didn’t look that clean, but they didn’t listen. It wasn’t the best movie for a YW outing. But I was laughing most of the time! And for that short time, I forgot I was in Taiwan because it was in English. (With Chinese subtitles)

I was rudely brought back to earth as I walked out of the theater and didn’t hear any English spoken around me :( We also wandered around before the movie. At a weekend market (that’s what I’m going to call it). I tried fried cheese cubes and they were super good!! I’ve never heard of such a thing.

I’m already considering riding the MRT and going back there to get more cheese cubes. I have had such a ridiculously small amount of cheese since coming here. And I don’t like it! Something that made me laugh was that we bought drinks on the street before going into the movie. I told my girls that isn’t allowed in America and they thought it was strange.

Our final stop was Costco. Yummy, huge slice of pizza! I saw a large box of Cheerios and today in church I wished I had bought it. I’ll probably take the MRT and go to Costco for some “fun” shopping. I just have to eat the stuff fast. Family size portions for one person. Ha ha!

Today I went to church. It was good. Took the new route, as shown to me by Scott’s family. It’s faster and on smaller roads so safer for me. My 2nd counselor, Daniella, taught the lesson. It was really good. The girls paid more attention since it was in their native tongue. I need to find a teacher this week. I only want to do it every now and again.

Oh, I forgot. Sat. night we returned to the church at 6:50 and then I had a 1.5 hour meeting. It was good, but I was really tired. It was YW training for the stake. The stake YW president just had her first child. And she was Yvonne’s first roommate who taught at Chung Shan. (Funny note: she said she wasn’t going to get married her but did so within 3 months of saying that and now lives here.) At first she did English and Chinese, but then another person came and translated for me. I really need to learn Chinese!!

I think that’s about it. Tonight I had to type up the lesson plans that I was supposed to do Sat. morning. And now I have one more thing to do for school. A group of kids went to a storytelling contest today and got first place. Yeah!

Then this weekend, we have the drama thing I’ve been helping them prepare for. I hope we do well! The girls worked on the backdrop Friday and it’s looking good. They just have to memorize their lines, work out the movements, and memorize a bunch of speeches. Yeah, only 5 days to do all this. The speeches are just in case we move on to the next level. Together they have to give one speech. But Scott is having them memorize 4 different speeches. I don’t really know how it all works. I’ve looked at them and want to simplify them. So that’s what I’m off to do!