earplug night
Friday, June 27th, 2008Well, Ted’s gone back to the Netherlands. I’ve got another week here. We didn’t do anything too glamorous this time, just a visit to some local castles our first weekend, and then to watch a regatta on the Olympic course outside Amstedam last week. Nice course — apparently it was dug by hand during the 1930s as a works project. I’d be envious, but it seems churlish when we got all those nice roads, walls, dams, and national park structures in the US for our works projects.
This weekend, I’ll row tomorrow, do some shopping because ifor things I can get here (an iPod cable, some craft wire), it’s easier to just walk around the Centrum then to go to all the separate shopping areas in Taipei. Might look for some summer dresses just for the novelty of having everything be too big instead of too small.
Normally the only good thing about Ted’s leaving is that I sleep better with a room to myself. Tonight will be an earplug night, though: they’re having a “Fiesta del Sol” in the Centrum (i.e. just across the street) which turns out to mean vaguely Jamaican or Indian crafts for sale and several bands, whom I can hear through the closed window. At least I can sleep late tomorrow if necessary.
Sunday I have a race – just a small internal club regatta run sort of like a golf scramble – they pair people randomly, but we only row for 350 meters in doubles. Then they combine the doubles into quads and have us race again. It’s all part of a fifteenth anniversary celebration. Should be fun. Then there’s an auction of nice old wooden boats, but since they won’t fit in my uitcase I gues I’m out of luck there.