SYME Chapel Skit

For this weeks Chapel Time Jake, 2 of the female students and I had the skits. Chapel is a time we have everyday for the students to lead praise and worship, verse memory and translating jobs.

The theme was godliness. In our first skit we went through Jacob's life as a horrible person. He kicked a cat on the way to school, disrupted the classroom, and stole a nerd's(me) lunch money. After he went home he had a nightmare about the people he was mean to that day. When he woke up he realized he needed to change his life. Then in part two later on in the week he got some intensive Christian training.



After the training was done, we relived his life being nice to the cat, being good in school, and paying back the nerd for stealing his money. Jacob then went home and had a dream were everyone he was nice too that day was friends with him.

Dakeng, Taiwan Monkeys

Today we canceled the English classes and went for a hike in Dakeng. The stairs were horrendous trying to climb. The whole trail you were walking on small logs hoping you won't twist your ankle. I don't think there was one section of the climb where I could step on dirt.

The photo above is where most people decided to give up and turn around. Only 4 of us ended up going to the end. On the way back down we ran into a bunch of monks. On TV they seem all holy and spiritual, but its hard not to laugh when you see them do cute poses for a picture.

Towards the bottom of the hill we ran into a bunch of monkeys making there way across the path. I was able to get so close to them I could touch them if I wanted too. But chose not to out of lack of knowledge of what their reaction might be.

Tainan Skate Trip Part 4

Homer - Fs Noseslide

After getting stitches we headed back out to skate. The rest of the day we hit up this ledge before heading home back to Taichung.

(photo: John filming Chris - gap over bs lip in a line)

John - bs 180

Michael - switch fs flip attempts

 Many times throughout the day we would get small crowds gathering to watch us skate.

John - fs 5-0

Tainan Skate Trip Part 3

Checkin at the Hospital after I smashed my chin on the ground skating. 6 stitches, only 10 mins long, $300NT ($10US), than back to skating.

Tainan Skate Trip Part 2

The next morning we got a hold of Chris Marleau to show us around to some spots. We met up with him at the local skatepark. (Photo: John - Michael's son ripping on tranny)

The had huge banked walls for us to skate on. (Photo: Michael and Jon setting up their cameras)

Found this in Tainan...

Tainan Skate Trip 1

Homer - riding the curve (this spot isn't that great actually)

This weekend is a Chinese Holiday called Peace Day giving us tuesday off of work. Some friends from Naili (Homer and Michael and his family) come down to skate. Taking the train in took extra long because there was a 6.1 earthquake on the way in. (Photo: Michael - fs 180 at full speed)

We rented scooters for the day driving around looking for spots to skate. Key to this is to find the schools. (Michael - wall ride)

After a long day of skateboarding we went to Taiwan's biggest night market. When you combine biggest with holiday weekend, you get a whole lot of people.

All the hotels were booked. We ended up getting a great deal on one for only about $10 each, however there is a price you pay for not paying much of a price. (The smell, the size, the cleanness, the neighbors, the safety, etc.)