18/12/06 6:08 am

woke up a few minuets ago, now sitting on my throne.

We're at our first stop. Chia yi - toh wu

we're leaving for first stop at 8 and there is still lots to do.

Write about it later. George was snoring all night. Didnt really sleep much. I'll post the snoring online when i get back.

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18/12/06 11:10 am
just got back from the first primary school. They are soooo cute. I taught yr 1

i had to take the sing along. Sing really stupid songs but it was fun.

Rivising the alphabet and giving eeryone an englsih name took up most of the class time.

Going to another primary school in 2 hours and a high school in the arvo. Still doon't know what im going to teach the high schoolers.

Oh well.

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18/12/06 7:32 pm
just had dinner. We finished our high school class at 4:45.

We just ended up playing games and bumming around. I got home and slept for 2 hours.

We're going b ack to the same high school 3 more times this week.

We're visiting 3 primary schools tomorrow. Which means singing the saw songs 3 times, doing the same skit 3 times, and teaching the samw things 3 times. Im getting tired just thinking about it.

Ive been in taiwan for a week and every single bed ive slept in hasbeen hard

fraking hell

dont they know it bad for their back

urgh

I havent wrote anything for these 2 days. Not much to write.

I arrived at chiayi today.

My aunty's doing something with a band for christmas. And she need help with the music scores.

Gonna help with that tomorrow and go do some shopping.

Saw my nephew for the first time tonight too. He's called MuMu (his nickname)

he's cute. Looks a little like me when i was small. He's gonna be hot :p

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>From: cowcrombie@optusnet.com.au
>Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 11:20:00 0800
>Subject:
>Had a nightmare lastnight.
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>I was taking a drive with a couple.
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>I was sitting at the back with the wife and the husband was driving.
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>Everything was normal and pleasent until tenticles started coming out from the woman and started coming for me.
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>I tried to punch her out and poke her eyes with my finger but she turned into a rubber doll. I then stangled the man infront of me, but he was a rubber doll too. I died i think. Only remembered that i woke up.
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>Anyhow im at taipei now living at uncle Lucas and small mike's house
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>i went out all day yesterday and had a hair cut. Me and jenny went to a strip where everystore was computer related. And then poped into mos burger(fast food) and had a 3 course meal.
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>Then i went to see a girl that a wrote a song for. I'll post some pictures up later when i return.
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>Anyhow. It's 7:58 am now and brian is still sleeping.
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>we are going to the computer strip mall again today.
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>My foot is still sore from yesterday's walking so im going to find a nice internetcafe and sit for a few hours.
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>Until next time.
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Ok, i've been a lazy bum. I haven't wrote anything for 2 days. I don't really know what to right.

Well here's what i did anyway.

the day i came back to chia yi, we had dinner at home and then played with MuMu a while (nephew) and then went back to the new house and slept.

THe next day woke up, had 'dan been' for breakfast and then my cousin took me out shopping for bluetooth headset and shoes. I didn't get the headset but bought another pair of shoes :P

then went home and bummed around and did the music score thing for my aunty and then went out to a crappy mall. bought some stationry and a big bear bank (piggy bank) kinda cute. Hope i can take it home.

came home, had dinner, and then went to the night markets~ it's a lot emptier compared to the last time i went 3 years ago.

bought a corn dog, some fruit and some dumplings and headed back home to watch The Skeleton Key by myself :P and then i went to sleep.

and today i woke up, and 'wanh guaeh' for breakfast and took a shower, and read a magazine, and going to start packing soon. and it's only 8:40 in the morning.

oh the joys of waking up early.

anyway, going to do more shoe shopping today. ciao~

Journal 5

4/12/06 9:24 am

i didnt write yesterday coz i was out all day and tired by the time i got home.

Here's what happened

i woke up at 4, again.

Liedin bed until maybe 5. Woke up and took a 'shower' and when i say shower, i mean toweling myself off with cold water coz there is no hot water in our en-suite.

Went to have breakfast at the breakfast shop down stairs. They had wifi! And it was free. Totally cool.

Posted my journals and checked emails.

Then me and mom took a taxi and picked up Debra (HS friend from Aus) and went to my old childhood church.

we were suppose to go have lunch with a old friend but he slept in and forgot so me and deb went mall hopping. Buses suck. Take too long to arrive and they were full to the point we couldnt get on. But we still took them coz they were cheap.

We shopped a little, had coffee, took sticker photo, and i bought a pair of shoes.

Afterwards i dropped deb off in a taxi and went to another church, my mom was at, to visit my god mother(who i cant rememeber at all) 's dad who came and visited once in australia.

Then we walked home which took like 20 mins.

Spent some time watching tv with grandpa and then left for god grany's house. Took a shower and slept.

So that summerises yesterday.

Today duno what im going to do. Hopefully eventful.

journal 3

2/12/06

its 8:55am and im on the train to kao hsiung.

i didnt write an entry yesterday coz there was too much to do.

i guess i'll recount want i did yesterdaym

i woke up around 4 again. played a little psp and took a showe then went to the hospital with my small aunty granpa and granny. my granny goes thru the dialysis machine three time a week.

so we go and i have 4 hours to burn. didnt do much. when down stairs and bought junk, stayed next to grannys bed, wathed some tv in the resting room. went outside for a little stroll. not much to buy.

around 11 we headed back home and had 'lunch box' from the hospital for lunch.

big aunty came home in the arvo. we bought some dinner from a restauran downstairs and after eating we played majon.

thats pretty much it. went to sleep around 11.

today should be busy too.

mom and i are taking the train to chia yi where my aunty will pick us up and we'll drive down to kao hsiung. we are all attending a funeral. my god granda ma should be there too. i'll stay at my real grandpas tonight, go to my old church in the morning on sunday, hang out with old friends if they have time in the arvo, and maybe call debra out too.

then i'll go and stay with god grandma for maybe two days.

hopefully before i leave kao hsiung i'll have found a adaptor for my electrical wares. my pda is running out of battery. i'll conserve some.

until next time.

Journal 4

10:32pm 2/12/06

today got to chiayi, drove to kao hsiung, had lunch with aunty, uncle, granpa, granma, unkown uncle, and mom at a 'french' restaurant. it was over priced and only edible.

then went to a funeral of some from my old childhood church. i cant remember him but lots of old people that use to go to the church came. my god granny also went.

after the service we went to the grave yard and i went to see my mom's mom's grave, my god granny's mom's grave, and my god granpa's grave.

after that went out with Cherry. 1st went to eat noodle. had some banana icecream, finally found a adaptor, then went to find a pair of shoes. we couldnt find a pair, but in the process i saw a back pack and spent all my money on it. we then went and took some sticker photos. i looked hot as always :p

since i spent all my money, there was no point in shopping anymore. so we headed home. Cherry is a "road eat" and her mom had to draw a map of where everything is. before we left on our journey home, Cherry cosulted the map and we started in the wrong direction. and after maybe 5 minuets we realised we were going on the wrong side.

anyway, lonh story short, we had a great time and she didnt kill me.

need to sleep now. big day of shopping tomorrow.

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>its 10:48pm local time 30.11.06. at grandpa's house. cant sleep. my bed is basically wood floor boards with a thin layer of blanket.
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>plus it's nearly 2 in sydney. i think i've passed the threashold for sleep. hope i fall asleep soon tho.
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>8:24pm local time.
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>today has been an eventful day.
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>woke up fairly early. kept on waking up all thru the night. not used to sleeping on the floor.
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>aunty came over in the morning and we went to have breakfast down stairs.
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>after breakfast i checked some emails and then went to the market with aunty. bought some lunch and graceries and headed home for a feast.
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>after lunch i spent some time with grandma. she so cute. i knoticed lots of dead skin and hair around so me and my cousin headed out to buy a vacume cleaner.
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>since she cant ride the motorcycle yet and i refuse to ride it too, we took a peddle bike. after maybe 30 metres i could hardly peddle anymore. after maybe 3 minuets of peddling we stopped at watson (a shop) my legs were shaking and dripping with sweat. there was no vaucumes but i bought band aides, bottle of h2o and deoderant.
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>anyway we visited another shop which didnt sell vacumes but strucked it lucky at the third shop.
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>they had 3 to choose from. $799, $999, $1500
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>needless to say , i bought the most expensive one.
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>peddled home, vacumed and changed the sheets in grandma's room while she was getting a bath.
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>chatted a whle with the 2 aunties and then went on a road trip to pick up another cousin from school.
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>we bought some stinky tofu on the way home and had it for dinner. another two cousins came home. i wanted them to take me out shopping but both refused. oh well, im dead tired anyway.
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>so after watching some tv, they went home and i took a shower and here i am.
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>anyway, need to conserve some battery. still havent found an adaptor for my electronic appliances yet. mighty annoying. shoulda bought it on the plane.
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>night.

fwd:Diary 1

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>it is 7:53pm local time and pissing with rain.
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>welcome to taiwan.
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> arrived not too long ago. our lugage came out fairly early. so we left our travel companions and headed straight to the bus bay.
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>i'm now on a bus heading off on a two hour trip to taichung, the middle of taiwan.
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>the bus is fluro green with hideos lime granny curtains.
>there are four tvs, two showing the typical asian trash soap, the other two showing a hollywood movie from the 90s.
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>it is dark outside with not much of anything.
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>i guy just sneezed behind me without covering his mouth. i feel the germs washing over me and fight the urge to scream.
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>these uneducated crude men who have defiled what once was a beautiful land. it's hard to swollow the fact that i would have been one of these foul creatures if my parents havent taken me overseas.
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>anyway. its been a tiring day. i shall try to get some sleep. it is, after all, my bedtime. in sydney anyway.
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