Er, hmmm. I should give an excuse as to why I haven't posted anything in so long. I really do have some excellent excuses. But, I think I'll dispense with that and just give some details of what I have been doing since the last post back in February. Chinese New Year was in mid February. The winter break here is quite long, nearly a month. Chinese refer to it as "Spring" break, but this rigid technicality (February is winter) keeps me f
rom being able to consider it a Spring break. In China the break is roughly the same..... which means.... you guessed it! Jennifer came to visit me in Taiwan. She and her friend RJ arrived in Kaohsiung airport on the 7th of February. Due to a train accident, my train to Kaohsiung was over an hour and a half late. Luckily, her plane was also late, so I did end up at the airport on time. We all spent the night in Kaohsiung since it was evening by the time we met up, and we went to a night market near the hotel. T
hese photos are from the night market. I ended up buying something. As I reflect back on the night, I can't imagine what came over me to buy not one, but TWO Egyptian paintings (not real paintings) on papyrus. Jennifer just shook her head and made one of those, "Okay Mom, I won't say a word, but this isn't much different from an Elvis painting on black vel
vet," looks, raised her eyebrows and grinned. It would have been a waste of breath to mumble something about a fascination with Egpytian art and papyrus!! Oh, I have always wanted to touch r
eal papyrus. Ah, well, she bought sunglasses and RJ bought filp-flops, so I guess I can forgive myself for wasting money on Egyptian junk in Taiwan.
Er, hmmm. I should give an excuse as to why I haven't posted anything in so long. I really do have some excellent excuses. But, I think I'll dispense with that and just give some details of what I have been doing since the last post back in February. Chinese New Year was in mid February. The winter break here is quite long, nearly a month. Chinese refer to it as "Spring" break, but this rigid technicality (February is winter) keeps me f
rom being able to consider it a Spring break. In China the break is roughly the same..... which means.... you guessed it! Jennifer came to visit me in Taiwan. She and her friend RJ arrived in Kaohsiung airport on the 7th of February. Due to a train accident, my train to Kaohsiung was over an hour and a half late. Luckily, her plane was also late, so I did end up at the airport on time. We all spent the night in Kaohsiung since it was evening by the time we met up, and we went to a night market near the hotel. T
hese photos are from the night market. I ended up buying something. As I reflect back on the night, I can't imagine what came over me to buy not one, but TWO Egyptian paintings (not real paintings) on papyrus. Jennifer just shook her head and made one of those, "Okay Mom, I won't say a word, but this isn't much different from an Elvis painting on black vel
vet," looks, raised her eyebrows and grinned. It would have been a waste of breath to mumble something about a fascination with Egpytian art and papyrus!! Oh, I have always wanted to touch r
eal papyrus. Ah, well, she bought sunglasses and RJ bought filp-flops, so I guess I can forgive myself for wasting money on Egyptian junk in Taiwan.
1 comment:
Great post. Don't even try to explain the need for papyrus. That's one of those things that words can't convey.
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