Haňule z Kyjova

I wanted to wake up early this morning, but I couldn’t fall asleep yesterday. Every information that I gained was “running” through my brains. And I overslept a bit. I wanted to start being a bit active and to go for a swim in the morning but the weather wasn’t good, it was raining a little, for the first time here, and the temperatures were around 18 grades. But I got to school early enough to attend the chinese dancing lesson with the other exchange students. We tried some movemnets from the traditional ribbon dance. The moves look easy but my hands are sore and the ribbons got entangled all the time. I think it looked something like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCJZYskdoiw (played from 2:30)

After that we had a lesson of chinese kung-fu with teacher Mike. First we did some warm-up to get more flexible (thanks to that I probably won’t walk tomorrow). Then we started with some easy moves, but after that it started – we took swords and tried a “choreographylike” moves. That was really horrible, because it was so quick I couldn’t follow very much and I was also a bit dangerous with the sword in my hand When the teacher did it he looked really graceful and powerful.

After lunch I had 2 classes with children. Also the people from AIESEC came to the school to meet me. So I got to know Winnie, Joe and Edward. We had a talk with the principal of the school. I didn’t understand a word But they were talking about me and the organisation and also their studies because some of them had studied at the NeiLi.

Tomorrow I will add here some information about traffic and dustmen – but I have to go to bed, I’m all sore today….

Ok, the weather here is so humid that my hair won’t dry. And when I try to dry it with the hairdryer it takes a lot of time and in the end it has no effect, the hair gets all messy after a while because of the wet climate. grrrrrrr

I wanted to add some information about the dustmen car – one day I heard a music like FamilyFrost so I asked what it is. And yeah that’s it, the dustmen car has it’s own melody. So they go around the streets every day and play the tune to let people know they’re close.

Then the traffic. That’s definitely something dangerous. There are no pavements along the streets and there are a lots of cars parked on both sides of streets. So you have to be very careful. Taiwanese also like to drive a motorcycle or a scooter. And when I go home after 5pm there are really lots of cars and scooters that endanger my life :))

…And more scooters parked in front of every shop or restaurant