4/26

4/26

I'm not sure what day it is, but it's fairly early in the morning. I just had a huge ham & cheese Hot Pocket. Also, is the size of the drink they give inversely proportional to the size of the meal? A %#&@% 2-lb hot pocket and they gave me about 3/4 of a cup of O.J. And it wasn't even good O.J. It looked kinda gray and definitely from concentrate.

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My watch says it's 10:25, I think I set it to Taipei time.

Last night's movie was Bobby and it was dreadful. You'd think that with Anthony Hopkins, Marc Wahlberg & Lindsay Lohan, they could put on a decent show!

And now what is this? Mtv Films' "Freedom Writers"?? And someone really needs to adjust the tracking on this film.

OH GREAT, ANOTHER REHASH OF Stand and Deliver, Dangerous Minds, The Substiture, etc.

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Ok, so the movie wasn't TERRIBLE, but I've seen the same story a bunch of times before. Now they're playing Pink Panther cartoons.

Flying over Taipei soon. Less than 4 hours till Taipei. I feel good. A little tired, but not too bad. My watch says 3:30, but I don't know if that's right. The sun is out. The plane got very chilly. I never got my ramen Noodles!

I really wanted to layover in Tokyo :-/

It has occurred to me that I am writing everything in pen. That means any mistakes stay on file.

You know, I probably would have paid more for this flight if they showed better movies... At least they're feeding us fairly well. Even if I didn't get that ramen >:-o

Dinner (or lunch? I thought it was more like breakfast time) was beef lasagna with veggies, a roll, egg salad, and fresh fruit, and a glass of wine. Very nice overall.

This movie (The Thief Lord) is utter garbage!

Amazing! Even though we can't smoke on the plane, the girls are carting around with cartons of smokes for sale.

$#&%!!! $12 a CARTON? How couldn't I? I just got 1. (I later found out a carton of Marlboro Lights can be purchased at any supermarket here for around Rp. 88,000, or about $10.)

11:20 a.m. I think. Taipei came and went. It looks like we're halfway through Borneo. Lunch was chicken & rice with a lettuce, shrimp & lotus root salad, fruit salad, & coconut custard. Not bad, but the chicken was kinda fatty.

I saw (Casino Royale. The rest of the day and tomorrow I wrote in pencil.)

Looks like I lost my pen. So the first thing that hits you when you step off the plane is the heat and humidity. Imigrasi was no problem. I was picked up at the airport, and driven to meet Meta. She is awesome. The school looks really nice. The office girls asked if I was a model. LOL! Driving to the apartment, I saw a bunch of kids (4-12) begging for $. They stand outside your car & tap on the window :-( sad. (I remarked to Meta that I had seen this, and she said, "You didn't give them any money did you? You know they're organized?" She warned me not to roll down the window around them, and just look the other way. Scary!!) We got pizza (BTW, pizza here comes with chili sauce and ketchup) and apparently "sausage" means sliced hot dogs.

I met Sheley, Felix, Rachel & David. We watched Night of the Living Dead & ate pizza. Talked about one of the teachers who is being a royal pain in the (butt).