Rehearsal was fun last night. We have to spend five minutes looking like we're about to cry, and it has to make the audience want to cry too. I wonder how that will turn out. Yuren gave me a script too. Even though it seemed like we were literally never going to get our act together, things have become a little more concrete and there is a 99% chance I will be displaying my fancy rolling around on the floor dance techniques in public before I exit the building in January.

I turned up to class on Friday, and today I started working on my newspaper article. I'm so proud of myself because all of this week I have been anti-what I'm doing with my life now and of the persuasion that Chinese can go and screw itself.

It was my turn to choose one. I picked this article from the Liberty Times with a diagram of Taiwan and mainland China and a graph of how many and what type of fighter jets each side has. It was politely vetoed by the teacher so I picked a new one with a picture of Bon Jovi playing a guitar. I've plowed my way through three paragraphs so far but it's only been about Kerry and Bush with not a word about Bon Jovi as yet! Maybe he did a concert or something. Whatever it was, I will not be finding out for a long time because the article is hard. Funnily enough though, the quote from Bush was quite easy to read and it didn't take alot of hard work to know he was just talking shit as usual.

One thing that the dude I had a beer with on the rooftop of a disgusting hostel in Taipei on my first ever night in Taiwan told me about was the transient nature of the expat community in Taiwan. I miss the people that were here last year and wish they were back but as an official 'global citizen' albeit one that is prone to making stereotypes, it's impossible to dismiss the likeliness of my seeing them again or just finding out what they ended up doing, and whether they could one day look back on their memories of Taiwan more fondly than not.   ¶ 01:59