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Phillip and Jennifer are currently living in Taiwan for a year! Jennifer is working for an international school teaching first grade (yes, this is new!). Phillip will be working on his education and taking good care of his wife..... page down to the bottom of this page to view past posts! Thanks for visiting www.phillipedwardallen.comTuesday, February 12, 2008
Happy New Year!
Did you forget that it's the New Year? It is, here, you know. The fireworks are incredible, legal, and never-ending. They have literally been going non-stop for well over a week now. It's festive during the day, but frustrating when we're trying to sleep.
We had a week off for the holiday, with which we did very little. We went to the hot springs in Taipei on Monday. I failed to read the sign written in English warning not to stay in one pool for more than 15 minutes. I blacked out. Oops. We spent the day with a couple of our foreigner friends (that's us here) and had a lovely day.
The rest of the week was spent resting, which was needed. We did, however, take a break from our nothingness to put on a grand performance at the city celebration to welcome in the new year. We sang, and Phillip did acrobatics, to "Webtastic," a cheesy song from the children's Christmas musical. Our school is invited every year to join several big name groups, singers, and other entertainers in the important celebration. I think we're the comic relief, or the opportunity to laugh at a bunch of foreigners making fools of themselves. It was a fun time anyway.
We're back at school now, but the holiday will go on for another week. The fireworks continue to go off all day, but I don't think the students are nearly as distracted by them as I am. Today one went off surprisingly close to our outside wall, I pretended I was shot, but the kids are too used to their New Year's celebrations to be fooled.
We had a week off for the holiday, with which we did very little. We went to the hot springs in Taipei on Monday. I failed to read the sign written in English warning not to stay in one pool for more than 15 minutes. I blacked out. Oops. We spent the day with a couple of our foreigner friends (that's us here) and had a lovely day.
The rest of the week was spent resting, which was needed. We did, however, take a break from our nothingness to put on a grand performance at the city celebration to welcome in the new year. We sang, and Phillip did acrobatics, to "Webtastic," a cheesy song from the children's Christmas musical. Our school is invited every year to join several big name groups, singers, and other entertainers in the important celebration. I think we're the comic relief, or the opportunity to laugh at a bunch of foreigners making fools of themselves. It was a fun time anyway.
We're back at school now, but the holiday will go on for another week. The fireworks continue to go off all day, but I don't think the students are nearly as distracted by them as I am. Today one went off surprisingly close to our outside wall, I pretended I was shot, but the kids are too used to their New Year's celebrations to be fooled.
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