it's been really shitty, i know, how i've been keeping up with this blog thing. i'm new to technology. but more so i am a terrible documentarian. i should be ashamed about how few pictures i've taken of all the truely amazing places and moments i've had out here. i think i start every one of these damned things with an appology. sorry. i'm really sorry.
ok, so... i'm on tour with a puppet show i put together with a czech puppet troupe. we are mostly touring the aborigional villages of taiwan. to say it has been hectic would be an understatement. to say the whole tour lacks organization or communication would also be an understatedment. i am enjoying it although. the czechs seem not to be. they have real life adult standards and i think are many times insulted by what we are given... or not given rather in terms of information and transportation and sleeping arangements. it's completely pell mell everyday. i dont know the name of the town i'm in or the last or the one before that. dont get me wrong i have had my fair share of ugly moments where i was sure i would be forced to rip the throat out of every person within a 10ft radius. we all get a little testy. the czechs are master complainers. i have come to the conclusion that the czechs as a people are completely unequiped to be happy in almost any capacity. there are so many situations to fill in here. how can i start? i am on the east coast of taiwan. we are quite far south and are seeing here the aftermath of the typhoon. the coast is so littered with drift wood... covered 20 ft high with a whole forest of trees for miles and miles and miles. the sea is also thick with it. sailing here is not a little dangerous. everywhere we go the roads are in a state of repair. so many of them were washed away in the storm. i think we will go no farther south. i think that not far from here the damage is quite bad and travel is acctually impossible. but i am missing all the good points. we are in the mountains and we are by the sea. the people are kind and pure and wonderful. i've just come from 2 days off from shows. we took and bit of a tourist vacation to an island called "green island" 50km off the coast of taiwan. it's like a sort of eco-tourism spot. but it was great. beautiful. why not? there is beautiful snorkeling. like national geographic photo essay beautiful. and there are all these deers there, native to taiwan, called sitka deers. they are small and docile and really special. the hostel we stayed at had a baby one who had lost her mother during the storm. her name was lulu and she was the size of a small dog and i fed her from a bottle. you have no idea how cute this is. seriously. baby deers, people? come on!!! this is world class cute. 2 days of tooling around the island on scooters and now we are back on taiwan. rested. realxed. we are here in this town whose name no one knows waiting for our show tonite. we are staying in the home of a retired professor of acheology who has turned his home in to a museum. i felt very fucking holden caufield last night i must tell you. and what a shame that i couldn't share it with anybody. i guess nobody outside of the states has read "catcher in the rye". what a shame. this is such a sorry excuse for an acctual account of my time here. mostly i just want to let everyone know i am well. my time is almost up here at this interenet place. and i must meet everyone for lunch. well... i'll see who i meet. i woke up this morning to find the house empty and all 3 of our tour vehicles gone. and i was up before 10. really. like i said before... no order or communication. so i wandered around the one street in town for a while before cleo and shang yuen found me and led me here to the interenet cafe. i love nothing more that wandering aimlessly under a tropical noon time sun. really. there is in the next town over is a handicrafts market. but it doesnt open til 4 because even the locals won't work and shop in this heat. i dont know the date or the day of the week but i'll be somewhere sometime playing a damsel in distress for some very nice taiwanese people i'm sure. k-bye.
