10/19/2008
Quit Peeking
Public restrooms in taiwan are making me go crazy. In America, if there are 5 urinals and somebody is using one and you walk in, you usually skip one urinal and use the other one so that there is one space in between you and the other dude. That is pretty much standard. In taiwan, if there are 10 urinals, and i am in the last urinal farthest from the door, a man will walk in and go all the way down to the end to the urinal right next to me, leaving 8 urinals un-used. WTF. Another thing that is making me go crazy is that everytime, and i mean everytime, I use the public urinal the guy next to me is looking down in my direction trying to check out the goods. It is no joke and they don't even try to pretend they are not looking, they will just stare. I mean why do they keep staring at my jewels? Seriously, is 8 inches really that big?
10/13/2008
10/11/2008
Saki and Punky
So Saki's dog is a very smart dog. He already sits, handshakes, lays down, and jumps on command. But we have realized one thing about Punky that makes him different than most poodles. We have learned that Punky is GAY. We had Sierra for about 2 months and they would fight, but within 2 days of Zo Song with us, Punky starts humping him every chance he gets. They both will be playing with the ball and Punky will gradually sneak behind Zo Song and start humping away. Zo Song fights off the gay attacks, but soon get too lazy and tired and just accepts his fate. Punky, however, is the coolest gay dog I have ever known.
Zo Song
Introducing the newest member of the Lee household is Zo Song. Zo Song is pork that has been fried and then dried. You usually eat it with water rice. He loves the stuff so that is why we named him that. Also, he looks like it. If you are wondering about Sierra, well, she went to a lovely family (known as pet store). Taiwan in some respects is real "old school." When I say old school I mean 1400's where people used to barter to get things. Well I literally traded Sierra for Zo Song. Sierra will find a family that will love her through all of her faults. Anyways Zo Song is freakin' awesome and freakin' cute. I think it was a good trade. P.s. I am not cruel or a mean person.........I couldn't love Sierra like she deserves so it was like adoption in some aspects. tell me what you think of Zo Song. Peace out.
9/26/2008
R. Chang!!!!
What is up with whoisrchang.blogspot.com that is the craziest thing in the world!!!!!!!Doris, did this guy ever email you back??? This is soooo scary and maybe we can find out who wrote the blog and get in contact with him. Also, do you guys even read the blog??????? For real, i asked which dog was better, boxer or american bulldog??? Man o' man......anyways i'm prob gonna get a boxer regardless of what you all say, but still state your opinion please.
9/23/2008
Stuff
So, Taiwan doesn't have tornadoes but they do have big typhoons. There were already 2 typhoons this month and knocked down a building right by Saki's house. Typhoons are everywhere here and the biggest one is in my "crotch area." Man, o man, the heat is crazy, I be sweating in the shower!!!
So, I guess as a teacher I really do play favorites with my students. I am currently teaching the "transportation room." There is a fake taxi, bus, and train in the room. I usually put the kids into teams and the winning team at the end of class wins candy. I ask questions during class and sometimes I will give money. I usually try to spread out the money so not just one kid wins all the money. However, last Tuesday this was not the case. This one class I had all the students say their names and this one little small eyed-asian girl says, "Hello, My name is Doris." Hahaha. I was like, "Whaaaaaaaa, who in their right mind names a kid Doris, it's so unusually nowadays." Anyways I was like, "Hahahaha, My sister's name is Doris, that's awesome, here's $20 (fake TIEV money)." Then ask the lesson progressed and the questions asked I kept calling on Doris even after she answered like 6 questions already and she kept winning the money......Hahaha i think the other kids were upset, but whateves man, it's about family (DLEE!!) You always got their back and agree with them on all issues nomatter what!!!
So, because it's so hot in Taiwan, I usually turn the A/C in my classroom down real low. I mean like low low. So the other day I turn it down to 16. (i dont want to convert actually temp), but most Taiwanese folks turn theirs to 24 or maybe even 22 on a very hot day. I turned mine to 16, the lowest the A/C machine would go. It was real comfortable. But anyways, I'm teaching my lesson and halfway through class this girl goes and sits on the lap of another girl. I was like, whateves man, i guess they are just bff's and i continue teaching.....well, 2 minutes later the one girl starts rubbing the other girl's arm and i'm thinking what is going on man....and then 4 minutes later, the girl raises her hand and says, "Teacher Rob, I'm cold" Hahaha, and then i ask the whole class, "who's cold?" And all 16 of them raise their hand with each hand shaking in coldness........Hahaha
Alright, so I have decided to buy another puppy. I have decided to probably buy a boxer or american bulldog (american bulldog is completely different than french bulldog). I have decided i want an active dog to follow me around and play catch with and a dog that'll attack someone on my very command. Let me know which one you guys like better? the first pic is boxer, 2nd is american bulldog. Peace outties. ........
9/15/2008
The Weirdest Guy Ever!!!
So Saki and I went to a hiking tour up in the mountains this weekend. It is a one day tour where they take you hiking and sightseeing. It was pretty beautiful and cool up in the mountains. I was sure I was going to see some amazing things, but I did not know I was going to meet the weirdest guy ever!!!!!!! There were about 15 people in our group; there were all asian and most were from other countries. They were all fine and nice except for this one weird dude!!!! His name was Reginald. He was this very nerdy looking kid with taped glasses in the center (like what michael did to be cool) but his were actually broken. And he wore a pocket protector with pens/pencils inside!!!! That is soooo 80's. Anyways...So we introduce everyone in a circle and we reach him and he says exactly this: "Hi, my name is Reginald and I am "the rock." And that is all he said!!!!!! What the freak? So, later on we are walking and Reginald comes by us and says hi so we say hi back and then I say, "So you like wrestling, huh?" because "the rock" is an actor, but he was also a wrestler on WWF. Reginald stopped in his tracks and had this look of horror on his face. Then he said, "What? No, man, rock, sedimentary.....igneous...." then i was like, "oh, yeah, yeah, I'm just messing with you....you like rocks? And he was like, "man I live for rocks, they are my life, i know everything about them, man" I replied with "cool man" and then saki and i walked faster away. I looked back and saw him talking to another guy. Later, we stopped at this waterful and I saw Reginald so I decided to see if he really was "the rock" I said, "Hey Reg, what kind of rock is in this waterful, man?" He was like, "That Robert, is a obsidian rock also known as volcanic rock, which is in the top 5 of my most favorite rocks. However it seems that pumice and mica rock have also started to form within the obsidian rock making it a mixture of fine powder which has hardened to become one." I was like, "exactly, man" I do not know if he was right or not considering i took 1 earth science course in high school and got a C in the class, but it seemed right. So anyways, the whole day he kept telling people about rocks this, rocks that.......he kept talking to this one girl and near the end of the day she told him to shutup and he started crying!!!!!!! ahahahahahahhahahaha it was funny and sad. funny cause he was crying, but sad cause i think he really liked the girl.......and you could tell that he was a guy that never got his nipple licked...... But really, i think he really did know his stuff about rocks, he kept picking up rocks and petting it and i even saw him kiss a couple of rocks. Crazzzzzzzzy.....Well, that is it so far.....more pics of sierra and pun later.......
8/31/2008
Lee Household Pet Cemetary: 24w780 Sierra Ln
The Lee household has never had much luck with pets.........or is it that pets never had much luck with the Lee household? Whateves......anyway it never turns out well for any of them. And I'd like to think that they all lived happy lives until they died peacefully in their sleep, however, that would be a complete lie. All right, lets start at the beginning.
#1: I got a hamster in the second grade. I named him Billy Lee. We had such a great time together and I was so happy cause it was my first pet. I kept him in a cage with a cover and a hamster water bottle that hung down from the top of the cage. Well, one night I kissed Billy to sleep and fell asleep myself. I woke up in the morning to discover Billy was not there. I wondered where he could have gone and realized the cover of the cage was missing. I searched and searched for 5 days and could not find him anywhere. I was extremely sad. On day 7 of the dissapearance, Lily (my mother) tells me to come down to the basement. I go down and she is holding some mutated extremely large rat in her hand. She then tells me it's Billy and he drowned in the sump pump of our basement and the water filled his lungs and body to the size of a woman's softball. That was crazy!!!!!!
#2: Many years went by and in high school I was finally over the dramatic death of Billy. I got fascinated with fish so I decided to start my aquarium. This could have been right after I saw Duece Bigalow Male Gigalo. Anyways I wanted a fish that would eat other fish cause that is just flat out cool. I had heard of "Oscar fish" and that they would even jump out of the water and eat the food from your fingers. So, I filled my aquirium with water, checked the ph and went with Jeff to the pet store to buy me some Oscar fish. (Tell Jeff to post the PH story at the pet store, he tells it better). I first got some regular goldfish and Irridescent sharks, but they all died due to some falty PH numbers. Once the ph level was good I got 2 oscar fish and they were awesome. They ate minnows and little pellets from your fingers. But, I had a friend who worked at the local pet store on Ogden Ave. and he told me about the King of Kings of fish. The ever so wonderful SNAKEHEAD. He hooked me up with the snakehead for free. Now, the oscar fish were medium in size now and the baby snakehead was only about an inch long so I thought it to be ok for them to be in the same tank together. It worked out fine in the beginning. All three were eating little minnows and doing great, until one day I looked at the tank and the snakehead was literally 6 inches long and bit off a chunk of the lower body of one of the oscar fish. Well, the oscar died and 2 days later the other oscar fish died due to a viscous bite to the head. So long, my 2 Oscars.......so long......
#3: The snakehead was friggin' awesome man!!!!!! I would go shop and buy a dozen large goldfish and he would fit 8 into his mouth and his mouth got huge like a balloon. It was so fun to watch........what was not fun to watch was my wallet becoming smaller cause the price of goldfish was $2.47 for a dozen and the snakehead had become over 12 inches. It could eat 2 dozen goldfish a day, so I became creative and decided to go fishing at the local pond to catch some small blue gills. It worked great!!! If the blue gill was small enough snakehead could fit all of it into his mouth, but if it was too big it would catch it in it's mouth and thrash around until the body was bitten in half. I once caught a small catfish and put it in and it ripped its guts in half and I had to clean the tank with intestines and guts floating all around. Snakehead became so scary I didn't even want to clean the cage in fear of my hand. We even had a Main Event showdown: SNAKEHEAD VS. BULLFROG....Everyone was there and I was hyping up the crowd only to get boo's when snakehead didn't eat the bullfrog...... Anyways.......snakehead got so big and crazy that it attempted to commit suicide by jumping out of the tank........I jumped out once and I got a call from May and Mike going hysterical about coming home and seeing snakehead on the carpet......They said they didn't know what to do. what??????? (You put him back in the tank!!!!!!!!!) Well, they did and he was alive.....but still crazy cause he jumped out again and this time he succeeded. He died on the carpet. I was out of town and Lily calls me and says snakehead is dead, i said put him in a bag and put him in the freezer cause i want to taxidermy that sucker. That idea went as far as when i checked the prices for taxidermy an animal. It was about $100 dollars for an inch....that was no longer an option. Goodbye, my friend, snakehead.
#4: Lily got a cockatiel free from a friend. She named him Elvis for some reason. Jerry and her loved that bird. Jerry loved Elvis so much he would let him sit on his shoulder and crap on him all night long as he watched Who Wants to Be a Millionaire on tv. After one show of Millionaire Jerry would have bird poo on his shoulders, hands, pants, and mustache. I mean the bird was cool with me, it would fly around and make chirping sounds. All was good. Elvis seemed to be enjoing his life. We kept him downstairs in our living room. Now to explain Lily. She is a money saving hard headed woman. Who likes only to turn on the heat or a/c when someone is about to die. Well in the winter she has the heat on but only to about 60 degrees + with our old house the temperature inside is really about 48 degrees. Literally sleeping downstairs I wear a shirt, a sweater, a hoody, then sometimes a jacket with 2 blankets which I wrap myself in like a hotdog and I am still shivering in the morning when i wake up. So one morning i woke up extremely cold and go out my room and go to the bathroom. I get out and I was going to go and feed Elvis which I sometimes do. Usually Elvis is sitting on the stick in the cage chirping. However, this morning he was not. I walk over and I see something on the bottom of the cage. It was Elvis frozen with a clean set of frost on him just like cool mornings on the grass outside. And 2 small icicles hanging from his nostrils. Elvis froze to death, but it was a very funny sight....RIP: Elvis.
#5: Ellie-Cat Ellie-cat what are they feeding you. I got Ellie-cat in college from a friend who didn't want him/her anymore. To this day I still do not know for sure if it was a boy or a girl and the rest of the family didn't know either. I don't think anybody cared. Anyways, it was very cute as a puppy and i had so much fun with (it), but then i soon outgrew a cat and gave it to Jerry and Lily so they could take care of it. For real tho, Ellie-cat was strong, brave, and a real fighter. Michael would play catch with it by himself and throw him as high as the ceiling to see if it could land on its feet. Sometimes it did and sometimes it did not. Okay, okay, i did it too. but for real, it was fun..... Now, i have to explain that our family did not go to the doctor's office that often growing up. Only for physicals, torn ligaments, the occasional shingles (after it was too late), etc. So when I asked Lily if she would take Ellie to the vet if she had problems what did she say? "Oh yea, of course, If Ellie is sick I will definitely take it to the doctors." So, when Ellie-Cat got a bad eye infection that would produce puss-like substances what did Lily say? "What, that's nothing, all cats have that." And when Ellie-cat would throw up everyday on the carpet what did Jerry say? "Oh, that's nothing.....It's just a hairball, all cats get that" No Jerry, a hairball is not vomit.... And when Ellie-cat's hair started to clump together all over what did they do? They just cut the hair that was clumped together so Ellie would have bald spots on her. I found out recently that Ellie-cat was put into a shelter, which means as of now Ellie-cat is in cat heaven........Cheers to you Ellie-Cat..........you are my hero.....
Many of you might be thinking that it was all might fault since most of these animals were my pet, but people this is just mere coincidence. I blame Sierra Lane for these incidents..........
ANYWAYS......onto bigger pet news. Saki and I got 2 new puppies. I've always wanted a dog especially an English bulldog, so I decided to get one in Taiwan. However, i did research and an english bulldog has many health problems and other bad qualities so I decided on a french bulldog instead. Still very cute, but less of the problems. I got a girl frenchie and named her Sierra Lee to try and stop the pet curse. Saki got a boy teddy poodle named Pun (aka. Punky).......
#1: I got a hamster in the second grade. I named him Billy Lee. We had such a great time together and I was so happy cause it was my first pet. I kept him in a cage with a cover and a hamster water bottle that hung down from the top of the cage. Well, one night I kissed Billy to sleep and fell asleep myself. I woke up in the morning to discover Billy was not there. I wondered where he could have gone and realized the cover of the cage was missing. I searched and searched for 5 days and could not find him anywhere. I was extremely sad. On day 7 of the dissapearance, Lily (my mother) tells me to come down to the basement. I go down and she is holding some mutated extremely large rat in her hand. She then tells me it's Billy and he drowned in the sump pump of our basement and the water filled his lungs and body to the size of a woman's softball. That was crazy!!!!!!
#2: Many years went by and in high school I was finally over the dramatic death of Billy. I got fascinated with fish so I decided to start my aquarium. This could have been right after I saw Duece Bigalow Male Gigalo. Anyways I wanted a fish that would eat other fish cause that is just flat out cool. I had heard of "Oscar fish" and that they would even jump out of the water and eat the food from your fingers. So, I filled my aquirium with water, checked the ph and went with Jeff to the pet store to buy me some Oscar fish. (Tell Jeff to post the PH story at the pet store, he tells it better). I first got some regular goldfish and Irridescent sharks, but they all died due to some falty PH numbers. Once the ph level was good I got 2 oscar fish and they were awesome. They ate minnows and little pellets from your fingers. But, I had a friend who worked at the local pet store on Ogden Ave. and he told me about the King of Kings of fish. The ever so wonderful SNAKEHEAD. He hooked me up with the snakehead for free. Now, the oscar fish were medium in size now and the baby snakehead was only about an inch long so I thought it to be ok for them to be in the same tank together. It worked out fine in the beginning. All three were eating little minnows and doing great, until one day I looked at the tank and the snakehead was literally 6 inches long and bit off a chunk of the lower body of one of the oscar fish. Well, the oscar died and 2 days later the other oscar fish died due to a viscous bite to the head. So long, my 2 Oscars.......so long......
#3: The snakehead was friggin' awesome man!!!!!! I would go shop and buy a dozen large goldfish and he would fit 8 into his mouth and his mouth got huge like a balloon. It was so fun to watch........what was not fun to watch was my wallet becoming smaller cause the price of goldfish was $2.47 for a dozen and the snakehead had become over 12 inches. It could eat 2 dozen goldfish a day, so I became creative and decided to go fishing at the local pond to catch some small blue gills. It worked great!!! If the blue gill was small enough snakehead could fit all of it into his mouth, but if it was too big it would catch it in it's mouth and thrash around until the body was bitten in half. I once caught a small catfish and put it in and it ripped its guts in half and I had to clean the tank with intestines and guts floating all around. Snakehead became so scary I didn't even want to clean the cage in fear of my hand. We even had a Main Event showdown: SNAKEHEAD VS. BULLFROG....Everyone was there and I was hyping up the crowd only to get boo's when snakehead didn't eat the bullfrog...... Anyways.......snakehead got so big and crazy that it attempted to commit suicide by jumping out of the tank........I jumped out once and I got a call from May and Mike going hysterical about coming home and seeing snakehead on the carpet......They said they didn't know what to do. what??????? (You put him back in the tank!!!!!!!!!) Well, they did and he was alive.....but still crazy cause he jumped out again and this time he succeeded. He died on the carpet. I was out of town and Lily calls me and says snakehead is dead, i said put him in a bag and put him in the freezer cause i want to taxidermy that sucker. That idea went as far as when i checked the prices for taxidermy an animal. It was about $100 dollars for an inch....that was no longer an option. Goodbye, my friend, snakehead.
#4: Lily got a cockatiel free from a friend. She named him Elvis for some reason. Jerry and her loved that bird. Jerry loved Elvis so much he would let him sit on his shoulder and crap on him all night long as he watched Who Wants to Be a Millionaire on tv. After one show of Millionaire Jerry would have bird poo on his shoulders, hands, pants, and mustache. I mean the bird was cool with me, it would fly around and make chirping sounds. All was good. Elvis seemed to be enjoing his life. We kept him downstairs in our living room. Now to explain Lily. She is a money saving hard headed woman. Who likes only to turn on the heat or a/c when someone is about to die. Well in the winter she has the heat on but only to about 60 degrees + with our old house the temperature inside is really about 48 degrees. Literally sleeping downstairs I wear a shirt, a sweater, a hoody, then sometimes a jacket with 2 blankets which I wrap myself in like a hotdog and I am still shivering in the morning when i wake up. So one morning i woke up extremely cold and go out my room and go to the bathroom. I get out and I was going to go and feed Elvis which I sometimes do. Usually Elvis is sitting on the stick in the cage chirping. However, this morning he was not. I walk over and I see something on the bottom of the cage. It was Elvis frozen with a clean set of frost on him just like cool mornings on the grass outside. And 2 small icicles hanging from his nostrils. Elvis froze to death, but it was a very funny sight....RIP: Elvis.
#5: Ellie-Cat Ellie-cat what are they feeding you. I got Ellie-cat in college from a friend who didn't want him/her anymore. To this day I still do not know for sure if it was a boy or a girl and the rest of the family didn't know either. I don't think anybody cared. Anyways, it was very cute as a puppy and i had so much fun with (it), but then i soon outgrew a cat and gave it to Jerry and Lily so they could take care of it. For real tho, Ellie-cat was strong, brave, and a real fighter. Michael would play catch with it by himself and throw him as high as the ceiling to see if it could land on its feet. Sometimes it did and sometimes it did not. Okay, okay, i did it too. but for real, it was fun..... Now, i have to explain that our family did not go to the doctor's office that often growing up. Only for physicals, torn ligaments, the occasional shingles (after it was too late), etc. So when I asked Lily if she would take Ellie to the vet if she had problems what did she say? "Oh yea, of course, If Ellie is sick I will definitely take it to the doctors." So, when Ellie-Cat got a bad eye infection that would produce puss-like substances what did Lily say? "What, that's nothing, all cats have that." And when Ellie-cat would throw up everyday on the carpet what did Jerry say? "Oh, that's nothing.....It's just a hairball, all cats get that" No Jerry, a hairball is not vomit.... And when Ellie-cat's hair started to clump together all over what did they do? They just cut the hair that was clumped together so Ellie would have bald spots on her. I found out recently that Ellie-cat was put into a shelter, which means as of now Ellie-cat is in cat heaven........Cheers to you Ellie-Cat..........you are my hero.....
Many of you might be thinking that it was all might fault since most of these animals were my pet, but people this is just mere coincidence. I blame Sierra Lane for these incidents..........
ANYWAYS......onto bigger pet news. Saki and I got 2 new puppies. I've always wanted a dog especially an English bulldog, so I decided to get one in Taiwan. However, i did research and an english bulldog has many health problems and other bad qualities so I decided on a french bulldog instead. Still very cute, but less of the problems. I got a girl frenchie and named her Sierra Lee to try and stop the pet curse. Saki got a boy teddy poodle named Pun (aka. Punky).......
Japanese Man
Everyone in Taiwan thinks I am Japanese. When I order at a restaurant or talk with the bus driver, or even the homeless peeps they all ask if I am Japanese. I always say no and explain that I am from America, but my family is from Taiwan. So one day I went with Saki to a food exhibition for her work. There was a bunch of different foods from all around the world. Then some guy comes up to me and starts talking in Chinese about his food. I didn't know what he was saying so I told him "No, thanks buddy." Then he says to me, "Are you Japanese?" I finally decided that since everyone thinks I am Japanese I might as well consider being Japanese. I reply, "Yes" thinking that would be the end of the conversation. But, immediately he says, "Mushi Mushi takayama yabamuto, hiroshima mushi mushi" I didn't know what to do as Saki is standing next to me laughing. So, I just turned around and walked away as fast as I could. Later on, we walked by the same person and Saki heard him tell another worker in chinese, "Don't talk to that guy, he's Japanese." Maybe I will stay Japanese, it's kinda fun....and gay....
P.S. at the food exhibition I saw a picture of Michael's father......they look so much alike it's unreal.
7/14/2008
website
I forgot to mention the schools website: http://www.de-wey.com.tw/village/english/index.html
Mackie all dayie is not mackie all dayie anymorie
Growing up without a computer has done its damage on me. When I bought my macbook I thought I would spend every single second with her. She was my dream, my gem, but I haven't been taking care of her like I should have. I still spend my free time watching tv and movies. The other thing I do with the macbook nowadays is burn dvds which I rent at blockbuster and burn them onto my computer. So it is no longer mackie all dayie anymore. Other than that 5 days ago, Jack from Dewey (a company that finds schools for foreign teachers) called me. He tried helping me find a job 6 months ago and I haven't heard from him since. He called me at 10:30 pm and told me this English Village needed a teacher. I told him I already signed a contract to another school. He said it was fine, but it needed to be a SECRET. I said, ok. I went to training the next three days and then I started teaching the first day yesterday. But, everything has to be a secret. The bosses at the school do not know I will be leaving shortly and they do not know I did not sign a contract because the contract is through Dewey and not the school. Dewey is secretly paying me everyday I work. It is very top secret like James Bond kind of stuff. (I will wait for jokes from Mike and Jeff). Anways English Village is crazy because we have 10 rooms of different types of scenerios. Like, a bank, hotel, grocery store, clothing store, an airlines place, etc. We pretend to own the bank, hotel, etc and teach them about each place. The airlines is an actual airplane replica torn down. It's the real size, but only like a quarter of it with real seats and storage compartments. I am teaching the hotel, a science room, and dance. It's a fun easy job. Anyways that is it for now....later
6/21/2008
p.s.
Everybody needs to download "Skype" you can see each other and chat for free!!!!!! I have it, since it came on my New MacBOOK hahahahahahhaahahha mackie all dayie....
News Update
I will not be able to go back to america this summer due to the rising gas prices, however i did get a job at a bi-lingual elementary school for next school year, but it is going to require a lot of work and thinking. (Something that I am not good at, you guys know already) You all enjoy the Chi-Town summer and I will enjoy rice and mosquitoes. and cochroaches. But on some good news, i just found Doris Lee on You Tube, she is indeed a superstar. P.S. Can you guess where Michael is? Check it out at: http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=LbhuQfSwa_k
Outties, Robotaski
Outties, Robotaski
4/13/2008
Update
Hello everyone,
It has been a long time since I have updated, but since I brought my two students into the computer lab, I have some free time now to update. I got a job at Ivy Collegiate Academy in Taichung, which is in the middle of the country. It is a boarding school for grades 7-12. I live on the second floor with the upper school boys. I have two bedrooms, 3 toilets, 3 showers, 3 sinks, 2 twin size beds pushed together, a mini-fridge, a tv, and a dvd player all for myself. I get 3 free meals a day and access to all of the school's things. It sounds pretty good right? Not really, the school is in the middle of nowhere and I do not have a scooter. A taxi ride is 10 dollars to the nearest town with things to do, so I pretty much stay inside and play ping pong with the students. Also, rotating between 2 other teachers I have to make sure all the kids go to sleep, go to their meals, and that they clean up their rooms, etc. It is seriously a 24/7 job. As of know I teach a health and fitness class 3 days a week, a gym class 2 times a week, a grade 8 esl job 5 days a week that only has 2 students in it, and a esl 7th grade class 5 days a week with only 1 student in it. Besides that, I am coaching the jv basketball team. There is an a team and a b team, so I have two teams. The boys had two games each so a total of 4 games and we are still undefeated. The boys b team beat the other team 64 to 17, they were like throwing up three's with their eyes closed and making them, it was crazy. Anyways I am just working crazily and that is about it. The website where you can see the shool for yourself is http://www.ica.ivyjhs.tcc.edu.tw/
check it out b/c my picture is on it,,,,yeah! laters
It has been a long time since I have updated, but since I brought my two students into the computer lab, I have some free time now to update. I got a job at Ivy Collegiate Academy in Taichung, which is in the middle of the country. It is a boarding school for grades 7-12. I live on the second floor with the upper school boys. I have two bedrooms, 3 toilets, 3 showers, 3 sinks, 2 twin size beds pushed together, a mini-fridge, a tv, and a dvd player all for myself. I get 3 free meals a day and access to all of the school's things. It sounds pretty good right? Not really, the school is in the middle of nowhere and I do not have a scooter. A taxi ride is 10 dollars to the nearest town with things to do, so I pretty much stay inside and play ping pong with the students. Also, rotating between 2 other teachers I have to make sure all the kids go to sleep, go to their meals, and that they clean up their rooms, etc. It is seriously a 24/7 job. As of know I teach a health and fitness class 3 days a week, a gym class 2 times a week, a grade 8 esl job 5 days a week that only has 2 students in it, and a esl 7th grade class 5 days a week with only 1 student in it. Besides that, I am coaching the jv basketball team. There is an a team and a b team, so I have two teams. The boys had two games each so a total of 4 games and we are still undefeated. The boys b team beat the other team 64 to 17, they were like throwing up three's with their eyes closed and making them, it was crazy. Anyways I am just working crazily and that is about it. The website where you can see the shool for yourself is http://www.ica.ivyjhs.tcc.edu.tw/
check it out b/c my picture is on it,,,,yeah! laters
2/21/2008
Happy V day!
So we decided to go to a hotspring resort to celebrate valentines day. The water in the bathtub comes from the freshest mountain waters of Taiwan. It was pretty crazy cool, however we could not put the water that hot considering saki would faint if we did, but it was still hot and awesome. It was romantic and the perfect way to celebrate our valentines day. When all of you visit Taiwan we will all go and have a huge par-tay at the hotsprings. Also, one night we went to a place called modern toilet where everything had to do with toilets. The seats were all toilets, the food come inside a toilet, the sinks were toilets. I was so entranced by the toilet seen and how good food tasted from a toilet that from that day on I eat all my meals on the toilet inside saki's house's bathroom. Hope you all like the pics. Pax Out.
2/12/2008
Update
Ok, the zoo movie does not work due to the fact that it is huge. It took me like an hour to download from the source and blogspot signs me out before it finishes downloading. So i guess you guys will not be able to watch it. On other news, 2 weeks ago i went for an interview at a junior high/high school for an english teaching job. It is in Taoyuan, which is like a not very new or nice town. The agent who contacted me told me to meet him at a train station where he would drive us to the school for the interview. I forgot to tell the agent that saki would be coming along. So, saki and i are at the train station waiting and we started guessing who the guy was and what he looked like and what he would be picking us up in. We were hoping it was not a scooter because that would just be weird, me sandwiched inbetween some random dude and saki. We kept guessing until he came and picked us up, fortunately it was a car, unfortunately it was a dirty scary looking car. It had McDonalds bags and maps all over. Luckily, saki was with me and was used to this sort of thing. So, Saki didn't want me to get this job b/c it was a bad city and far from where she lived and the school was in the middle of nowhere so I really didn't want it, but i wanted the experience of the interview. Also, another guy came along and we all went into the school to wait for the interview. I thought this guy was another agent coming along for the ride. He was a nice dude and we had a friendly chat. Right before the interview I was informed he was also applying for the job. Whateves. I also had to teach for 10 minutes on this magazine from the Jan. issue. I could not find the jan issue and i had no idea what to teach so i decided on valentines day differences/similarities from taiwan and u.s. It did not go well. I talked to fast and all my questions posed where met by confused faces looking at me. I just kept talking and talking and I didn't even know what i was talking about. Only one kid answered my questions, but he was sitting right in front of me and i kept looking at him. Anyways, i thought i did horrible and i didn't care. 1 week later they called me and wanted me for the job. I quickly said NO. So, the point is i am a great teacher! Here are some other random photos so far. Pax out.
2/05/2008
1/29/2008
The Results Are In
Okay, the results are. I also thought it was the blood-sucking, crazily enormous, eight legged, monster eyed, scary ass hell mosquitoes that gave me the swollen lip. I thought about it for a long time and realized it was not a mosquitoe, but Saki was doing some kung-fu moves one night and threw a chuck norris roundhouse kick (you know the one where Michael used to practice when jumping on lily's bed, but unlike Saki he did not kick me in the head, but kicked a hole in lil'ys room) that hit my head and my lip landed on my ipod alarm clock. I hurt it a little bit then stopped so I thought nothing of it. But, later I saw a white line that matched the siding of the ipod alarm clock. I solved the mystery, damn, I was good like encyclopedia brown, damn, but it was scary at the time. Here are some more pics.
1/27/2008
Robby and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Night
It was supposed to be a good day. A happy lazy day of movie watching and chilling. I mean Johnny Depp in Sweeney Todd? What could be better than that! Unfortunately, Sweeney Todd was not as great as I thought it was going to be. It was actually kinda boring at times and a lot of the songs I really didn't catch the words. But, don't tell Saki that because I kept telling her I wanted to watch it and it was going to be awesome....and I after the movie I told her it was the best movie I'd ever seen. After that we went home to sleep. Now, Saki can sleep within a minute if she wants to. I CANNOT. It takes me at least thirty minutes before I can sleep even if I am extremely tired. Now, that night after Sweeney Todd I was tired. I mean tired! And I wanted to sleep so bad......but as I was waiting for my thirty minutes to end I kept hearing buzzzzzzzzzzzzing in my ear. And I knew that it was mosquitoes. But I was so tired I was thinking in my head, "Rob, man, just forget it your too tired to turn on the light and get a tissue and run around trying to kill a damn mosquitoe" So I thought some more and thought of the greatest game plan. I would wait until the mosquitoe lands on my head and then I will kill it with my hand without turning on the light or even getting up to get a tissue. The time was 12 a.m. I kept hearing the buzzzzz and I kept swiping at my ear....over and over I would hear the buzzzzzzzzing and I kept smacking my head hoping the buzzzzzzzzzzzing sound would end.......it would not. I finally decided to get up and turn on the light so I could kill that biatch. The time was 1:30 a.m. I turn on the light and go back into bed and so I hear the buzzzzzzzzzz agian. That biatch was on the wall and I killed the biatch. Finally success and sweet sleep was mine. I turn off the lights and go onto the bed. The time is 2:00 a.m. I wait my thirty minutes. I hear more buzzzzzzzzzzing in my ear. Damn you biatch's daughter. I decide to revise my greatest plan. I would let biatch's daughter land on my face and stay there for awhile before I smack her. I wait and wait and smack and smack, with no success. I get up to turn on the lights and lay back on the bed. The time is 2:30 a.m. I kill biatch's daughter. It is 3:00 a.m. I feel so tired, but it is time for my victory smoke. I go out on the balcony and lite up my sweet victory. I take a drag, but something feels not right.......something feels different from all my other victory smokes. I take another drag.....Yes, it definitely feels weird. I look in the glass door to the balcony. I see my lip....I freak out......I wake up Saki and show her my lip........Saki freaks out.......I go to the bathroom so I can see it better.......I freak out some more..........I take some pictures of my lip........I freak out even more.........I look at the pictures I took of my lip.........I am definitely freaked out........It is 3:30 a.m. I don't care anymore I decide to go to sleep.
1/21/2008
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