I'm In The Army Now

While waiting for our train home from Hsinchu, the army stopped by the station.

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t was cool to see all the different vehicles, and it made me wonder where they were all going.

Christmas Show

Each year, Stanford puts on a Christmas and Graduation show. This year's Christmas show was written by the foreign teachers, Craig, Riaan, and myself. It was based on How the Grinch Stole Christmas.

The school went all out on decorations. It really should have been called "How Stanford Killed Christmas" as they had lights and trees up my November 8th.

I played Cindy-Lou Who and Riaan was the Grinch, and Craig got to be Santa Claus, They had to rent him a special suit as the one they had was meant for small Asians, which Craig is not.

I had a good, if not chaotic day. Immediately following the show, Craig and I took a taxi to the train station and then on to a hotel in Taoyuan to prepare for our flights the next morning. Craig's to Japan, and mine back to America to surprise my family for Christmas.

The woman in blue is Miss Winni and is my co-teacher in K3A. She is great and also funny. We like to commiserate about all the stupid things we have to do at school. The other teacher is Miss Jane and she is also sweet. I taught her and Miss Grace (pictured below) how to fishtail braid their hair.

Miss Grace speaks very little English. but is very sweet and manages to make herself understood.

They had a whole set-up for Craig to pose and take pics with the Children. I caught him in action and it was super fun to watch.

The school photographer wanted a shot of both of us so here it is. It would have made a nice Christmas card, don't you think?

Do My Eyes Decieve Me?

A day after returning from my Christmas holiday in America, I was informed that I was in charge of the morning assembly. My topic was vision care.

So I taught all the kidlets not to read in the dark, or to sit too close to the tv when watching. My supervisor also told me that I should say that reading while lying down is bad for your eyes as well. Huh??

I have no idea but I demonstrated it as a bad behavior and I hope they caught my drift.

I'm pictured here, reading the "right" way, sitting up.

Craig helped me out in acting out good vision care by reading while sitting up with the light on.The assemblies here are kind of a joke, but we all help each other out and have a good laugh. This was my last assembly of the semester. I have next semester's dengue fever assembly to look forward to. Joy.

Teacher Photo

We found this gem of a picture on the school computer in the office. It's a staff photo and it was taken last June.

Our school has a high turn-over rate. I counted 12 people in this picture that no longer work at the school!

I think my favorite part is that Craig looks like he's 12. It cracks me up!