On Saturday night, Emily and I had another new and exciting experience in Taiwan. The Rugby World Cup Final was played here on cable tv at 3a.m. between England (the then current champoins) and South Africa. We invited some of our friends over for a pre-game party and then waited until 3a.m. to go to a pub to watch the rugby final (the most exciting thing about the party was that we finally got our ping pong table out and played for a long time on our roof--we have a great roof, and a great ping pong table and I love it with all of my heart). The majority of foreigners here are South African, which is interesting, and also cool. Two of our good friends at work are from S.A. and so they were really excited that we were joining them so late/early to watch the game. We went to a pub called "Alamo" which actually has a huge mural of the Alamo in one of the walls, and we watched the game along with hundreds of excited fans. Emily and I were two of four who were cheering enthusiastically for England, and truly believed that they would win. Alas, they did not. It was nice to see how excited they were, because judging by how crazy they were about winning, I would not want to be nearby if they lost. Yikes. It was lots of fun, we all had a merry time, and enjoyed ourselves... until we walked outside and greeted the coming dawn. Man was I tired.
Funny, but this made me miss Aggie football a lot. This one friend of ours, Mona, was telling us about the incredible rugby matches back home where 60,000 people show up sometimes and I was like, yeah big deal. I haven't been keeping up with how the Ags are doing, but from experience, maybe it's better not to check and just believe that they are playing well and winning all of their games. Whoop!
More news, Thanksgiving is coming up, and I am excited about cooking my first ever pumpkin pie... in a toaster oven. I already bought a teenie pie plate and can't wait for the magical day to arrive. We do have to work on Thanksgiving though so it will be a late meal. I am open to any suggestions for toaster-oven-friendly recipes that anyone might want to share with me:)
My brilliant co-teacher, Glenn, has come up with the best-ever term for our job description: Child-Whisperers. That's what we are. We can't understand them, they can't understand us, and yet we communicate, and they grow in size and they learn and we grow in pride of them and it's a beautiful part of the circle of life.
I posted some new pictures the other day so take a look.
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We have a South African on staff here too. She was ecstatic when her team beat England,which is amazing since she almost never smiles.
Isn't rugby a crazy sport? One of our teachers is a fanatic like no other for the game. Thanks to him, Xela actually has a rugby team. Pretty cool, huh.
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