Jail or Mail?

I just posted about 150 pictures from when Kelly visited last week. Check them out!

About a week ago, I noticed a sign posted in our elevator that looked like a "wanted" sign for a man. Of course, it was in Chinese so I didn't really know what it was for. It had a picture of him that looked like a mugshot as well as his height, weight, and birthdate. In my apartment, every time our door opens, there's a chime that sounds. However, our neighbors door chimes all the time randomnly and is clearly audible from my room. So after I saw this sign in the elevator, I started to get very paranoid at night when I was in bed, and I repeatedly heard this door chime. I was thinking "oh geeze, this criminal is in my apartment right now and this is not good." After being freaked out for like a week, I walked into the building one day and saw this "wanted" man standing in the lobby with a doorman's uniform on. He's a new doorman in the building and they posted his profile in the elevator. Yep, that's it. I was pretty freaked out for nothing, but it's pretty funny.

Anyway, yesterday was the day that Principal celebrated Halloween. It was a pretty insane and surreal day. The kids were really, really cute. I'll be posting pictures shortly. The highlight was when we took to the streets with the kids to go trick-or-treating. They don't really celebrate Halloween in Taiwan. Just sort of. We toured a hair salon, as well as a Blockbuster, Mos Burger (Taiwan's McD's), and bakery. At each stop, we sang two halloween songs in English. I don't think any of the workers at the places knew what was happening but they gave kids candy anyway. At all of these stops, that's when I had some surreal moments in my head. It was pretty crazy!

Later in the day, we were supposed to play halloween-themed games with the older kids. However, we were given a list of games to play and nothing to play them with. This was a bit of a disaster but luckily the kids had a lot of candy to eat to fill the time. There was also a moment yesterday where I was hanging out with one class, admiring each other's costumes and what not when I got a call from my boss and she told me to go to another classroom. I walked in with my costume on and everything and all of the kids were sitting quietly in their chairs, ready for their science class. I walked in completely unprepared and annoyed that no one warned me about this. Luckily, I was teaching the colors "blue" and "purple" to 3 year old kids so it was pretty easy to whip together a lesson plan. In other words, the day was a whirlwind and it was chaotic and poorly organized and cute and hyped out, but overall, it was a great day and I had a lot of fun!