I've had some vicarious pleasure this week as Lewy's horse, Drizzle, followed its maiden win with a solid second on Friday afternoon. We were like a 1940's family huddled around the radio, this time sitting around the computer as it beamed a live call from the back blocks of some Victorian cow paddock all the way into Lewy's classroom in Taipei.
Ross and I paid a few bills for the car this week and celebrated our new carpark by paying a re-issued speeding fine...just pay $1700NT and you get not one but two colour pictures of your car doing illegal things (in this case speeding!)
The week has been hotter than hot and we've again spent most of it cloistered indoors near some artificial cooling machines. We've hopped from school to home and hardly ventured anywhere in between...it's just been shockingly oppressive. We enjoyed the footy this weekend, had some takeaway pizza on Saturday night and Ross and I drove over the mountain to be greeted by flat conditions at the beach before turning around and coming straight back.
The air has taken on an amazing, very un-Taiwanese quality this week. Almost as if you've put a pair of prescription glasses on, the world has come into sharp relief. Some strange, climactic force has sucked away all the pollutant haze and Taipei has suddenly become a searing bright sunfilled canvas. It's very reminiscient of home and quite disconcerting...I don't really want to see our cityscape so clearly, thanks all the same! No doubt, the gloom will descend again soon and everything will return to normal.
Not much to report this week: we're both working hard, hiding from the heat and enjoying our lot. Adios!