Chicken Needs Beer to Have Less Chicken S#*&

This past Sunday, I had the privilege of going to a water park in Bali, which is a town just northeast of Linkou on the coast. I went with all of the teachers from school and we were there celebrating Jade's b-day, a former Principal teacher. The pictures I'll post will give you a better description of what it looked like, but it was awesome. It had relatively short lines, fun rides, and it wasn't too crowded. The highlight of the water park itself was the fact that all the lifeguards were male and they all wore tiny pink Speedos, which was pretty comical. And no, they weren't what you're thinking they are perhaps. That's just the uniform for some reason. They had a very prominent wall in the water park covered with photos of the lifeguards posing...very strange. It was a little Chippendale-esque. So yeah, that was all good and fun, but the cab ride home was the best part of the day. We got a ride back from Mr. Hwong, who had so kindly driven us there as well. In the cab, we tried to have a conversation with him and then I made the mistake of asking him if he liked music. He had a DVD and TV built into the car and he turned it on to the Taiwanese equivalent of MTV and it was all these teen girls dancing to techno music with strobe lights and everything and then Mr. Hwong started dancing. Bear in mind he's probably about 55. Then he kept saying "nice to watch" and "dance dance" in Chinese. It was really funny. It was also sad though during the conversation because we kept asking him if he did certain things or what he liked and he said he worked from 6 AM to 1 AM everyday driving his cab so he didn't have time for anything. He's never even left the main island of Taiwan. It didn't seem to bother him though. He was a jolly guy and we may enlist his services again shortly.

The other funny thing that happened was today! I was going to go get a blood test from Frank, little Brian's dad at a nearby hospital. He told me where to get the bus and he said it would be about a 10 minute drive. After being on the bus for about 20 minutes, I started to get concerned. Once we got to "the end of the line" after 30 minutes, there was definitely not a hospital in sight. I had no idea where I was. I asked the bus driver where we were and how to get to the hospital. He said something in Chinese and I had no idea what he said, but he said he was going back to the same place he started, so I stayed on the bus. In other words, I rode on the bus for an hour for no reason. Once I got back to the starting point, I found where I was supposed to be waiting about 100 meters away. Apparently, there's a spot where all of the buses stop but one, and that 'one' was the one I needed. Not sure why they separate them like that but oh well. I'm going to try again next week. Believe it or not, I was able to do all this during my lunch break and I wasn't late going back to work. The reason why I'm going to get a blood test is because I'm curious to see what it says and I suspect I may be anemic, but it could just be in my head. I feel more tired and fatigued than I think I should, considering that I'm sleeping pretty well and eating well too. Oh well, more on that later.

The other big news is seeing the dust storms in Australia. Kelly said she was coughing all day today and that was from staying inside. She said in Brisbane, she can't see more than two houses away. The pictures in Sydney looked really bad too. It's something like the worst dust storm they've had in 70 years. Anyway, I'm rambling. I'm going to post some pictures! Oh and by the way, the subject line of this blog is taken from a pair of sandals I saw at the water park.