i love sundays

As I seems to have been the theme for the past few weeks, Taiwan always has a way of surprising me on a Sunday.

I had set my alarm for nine so that I could go to church. (Given that I didn't get to bed till after four, and I was going to church with one of the girls I was out with last night, I figured it would be a miracle if we made it.) But I woke up. At eight.

There was an inexplicable racket coming from outside. I was pretty certain I was awake, but just to be sure I climbed out of bed for a closer inspection. I did not expect the scene that awaited me.

The running track, field and stadium seats were covered with hundreds and hundreds of brightly colour, unnaturally-enthusiastic-for-a-Sunday-morning people, and the roads were covered with cars and buses dropping off more people. And they were loud.

I had no idea why, but there seemed to be well organise processions with music accompaniments parading around. And they seemed very fond of drums. I decided if I went back to sleep they might go away, but they didn't, and that was a lot harder than I had hoped.

So I eventually gave up and went to the store to get some breakfast. I wandered along in a half asleep state doing a superb job of ignoring the masses of kids that looked like they'd never seen a white person before, and their parents. Got to the shop. And all the good bread was gone!

I can handle the drumming, I can handle the staring, but don't mess with my breakfast!

Thankfully it didn't do any irreparable damage and I made it through the rest of the day. (but it was touch and go for a second there.)

I did miss church, however, due to the uncanny sleeping abilities of my friend I was going with. How she managed to sleep through that is a mystery to me.

The 'field people who ate my breakfast' eventually dissipated in the late afternoon, potentially due to a sudden lightning storm which appeared out of nowhere. Although I blame them for that too cos they started to have a sports-day type thing and that invariably has a drastically negative affect on the weather (always including rain.)

But my apologies for the lack of bloging lately (to those of you who complained,) I'll try my best to not let it back up so much in the future.