This weekend was fairly epic as far as my life in Asia goes. It started out normal enough, class with a bunch of eleventh grade students who did not want to learn anything (or be quiet) on a Saturday morning. But things picked up significantly after that.
At 1 p.m. Saturday, I boarded a bus with ten students and our Dean of Faculty to go to Taipei for the evening. Having never been to Taipei, I was pretty excited to go, but that's not the real reason I signed up to chaperone this particular trip. That evening, we had tickets to see a Korean boy band in concert and I was more than willing to accompany our students there. Not only do I have an unnatural love for boy bands in general (I did see Hanson in 2008, long after they released Mmm Bop), but I figured it would be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that I couldn't pass up. We all went to Taipei 101, the giant building in Taipei that was at one time the tallest building in the world (seen below), and then all went to the concert together. And the concert delivered like Dominos!
Each song had Korean verses but an English chorus and it was hilarious. One song literally was "Let's get crazy! Let's get crazy! You're so hasty! Let's get crazy!" It made me smile to say the least.
As if a Korean boy band wasn't enough of an excitement for the weekend, two of the other new teachers and I went shoe shopping this afternoon. I was very excited to find out that although my feet are pretty huge by Asian standards, some stores still carry shoes made for bigfoot Americans (you can see the fruits of my labor below).
All in all, a solid weekend, now I just have to figure out what I'm going to teach tomorrow!
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