Wednesday, April 29, 2009

you would be in bloom

these are some leftover pictures from park day yesterday.
on monday, my 9-10 year old class had the QA 'what do you like to collect?' with the new vocab 'stamps, marbles, stickers and coins'. i got around to one kid, scott, who's cute and likes to joke around with me and he had written 'a pretty Megan'. i gave him a sticker, but i had to tell him that you can't collect megan's.
it has been so crazy windy the last few days. it's so scary to be driving along and then it feels like someone just pushed the wheels of your scooter out from under you. all of the sudden you'll be 2 feet to the left or right and you can't do anything about it. i just stay a little further away from the side of the road and try to be extra aware of who's behind me and how fast they're coming up on me.
(the next 2 pictures are from the little park next to our house).
twbf sent me a whole list of places we can check out today and their corresponding websites!
tonight i had a demo with my kindy girls. the parents were concerned that i talk too fast and that their kids don't want to listen to the CD that goes along with their book. we told them to let their kids watch any kind of english shows or cartoons they're interested in.

i finally know enough chinese that those meetings are starting to make more sense to me. it's pretty weird to be in a conference when everyone's talking about you and your class but you don't understand what's being said and no one's translating.
katie turned 24 (or 25?) today and we all sang happy birthday and someone bought her a taiwan-fab cake.
it had..
a layer of jello-y custard
a thick layer of [some kind of] purple bean
some jelly covered fruit
and tons of cake art on top
and it came in a super patterny box.

i'm doing research for my outside class tomorrow who chose to learn about sports, comics and the environment and i found..
at greenbydesign.com. sad.
all the more reason not to buy plastic things and buy things likeee..
these organic bags bec sent me the link to yesterday. they're on saleee. $34.99 for all 5.

9 comments:

koji said...

hahaha....i noticed the twbf tag....funny.

if you want to find out about fate and stuff, my mother in law is a type of fortune teller, but not quite a forture teller, kind of like a psychic in taipei....and she doesn't charge, she's quite good.

Anonymous said...

I saw contact Koji's MIL.

megan said...

i wonder how that would go with my chinese ability. i'm going to taipei on saturday to get my hair done, how do i get to her?

Anonymous said...

Ask the twbf dummy...........

megan said...

yeah but i'll be by myself on saturday.

koji said...

she's in neihu, she does her stuff on saturdays. i'll ask the wife to see how someone can see her.

she can see ghosts, and i believe her, she's freaked me out a few times already.

koji said...

oh, btw, a few of my mother in law's followers speak english, but she doesn't.....i myself can't communicate with her.

Anonymous said...

Sounds like you need to go with a good translator...so not this Saturday.

megan said...

cool, thanks for looking into that.