Classes on bionic people, owls, Facebook, cyborgs, and more! / NOODLE HOOKUPS!

After some time, Corey finally managed to have Taiwan conversation! We were trying to one-up each other when saying how our days went:

[23:27:56] Corey: beep beep
[23:34:23] Flami: COREY! BOO!
[23:34:46] Flami: ... and by "boo," I mean "BOO!" I am a bad ghost :P
[23:34:49] Corey: AHH!! DONT SCARE ME
[23:35:59] Flami: just spent an evening with my sister and a friend - had dinner, watched / listened to hockey, and had ice cream
[23:37:04] Corey: well, I just had steak and eggs, and I went out and bought a Coke, and I had an Internet repair guy come to my place who doesn't speak English... and I don't know if he really did anything, but for the moment, things appear to work
[23:38:00] Flami: well, I also had a good dentist appointment with the son of the dentist, and visited Grandma in the respite centre, too
[23:40:33] Corey: oh YEAH?!!? well, I also... uh, watched some videos and stuff on my computer. so there
[23:41:58] Flami: ooh, ahh... we also listened to the end of the hockey game, which Vancouver won because some Colorado player shot the puck in his own net, 28 seconds into overtime :P
[23:44:10] Corey: I have a class about Facebook tonight. I've never even used Facebook! they've been waiting for this one, though, since they looove fartbook, so they better have some energy this time. they were all dead on Monday
[23:45:08] Flami: well, what were you discussing on Monday?
[23:45:53] Corey: Owls!
[23:46:17] Corey: last night was more owls, and bionic people
[23:46:47] Corey: well, not night, during the day was owls. cyborgs were at night
[23:47:18] Corey: and there's a girl that will bring me spicy noodles from her sister's Thai restaurant when I'm in Zhongli now. that's pretty cool
[23:49:00] Flami: so you got a spicy noodle hookup now? that's sweet!
[23:50:55] Corey: and students in both Taoyuan and Zhongli that will show me where to get stuff to eat that's not McDonalds or a sandwich from 7-11
[23:51:54] Flami: that's really resourceful!
[23:57:17] Corey: since all the signs and the people are in Chinese here, it's not that easy to get stuff that's not McDonalds most of the time :P
[23:58:20] Flami: yeah, I can understand that
[00:00:26] Corey: a girl showed me a place and didn't read the menu to me, then said I can come back there whenever I want and ask for what I want in English... I don't even know what they have!! except the pork thing I got with her
[00:06:32] Flami: that might be a problem
[00:09:15] Corey: well yeah, kinda :P but at least here, the other people are more afraid of me than I am of them, so it's not always horrible to try to deal with people here
[00:10:39] Flami: HAHAHA, nice
[00:24:36] Corey: so I kind of have discrimination every day here, but usually it's just like people being afraid to make mistakes or even use English around someone cool enough to know their mistakes. I thought I could be kind of shy and quiet, but people here have me beat by a long way
[00:26:54] Flami: how shy and quiet can you BE?!
[00:29:27] Corey: a lot of people here are ostriches
[00:29:36] Corey: they think if they hide their head in the sand, you'll forget they're there
[00:29:53] Corey: they don't even get nervous and leave, they just kind of freeze in place and hope you forget they're there
[00:30:29] Flami: how can you if they're right there?
[00:32:11] Corey: well, eventually I give up trying to make them talk, and go on to someone else... not many people in my classes are like that now, though... they're pretty good. the one tonight is my hardest class, though... they won't talk in class... not because they're afraid, they just don't really want to.
[00:32:19] Corey: these kids at least shrug at me, or show me some sign that they're listening or whatever.. that's annoying, but at least they're not pretending I don't exist
[00:33:05] Corey: most of my other classes are good, though... I just kind of go in and talk with them for a while
[00:43:49] Flami: so what are you going to tell them about Facebook, if you haven't used it and they have? :P
[00:59:46] Corey: I'll ask them what they do on it, and they'll tell me a bunch of Chinese games I've never heard of and they won't explain them very well, so then I'll just say "uh yeah, sure whatever," and we'll play a game or something
[01:00:12] Corey: every class uses an article, so we'll just read the article. hopefully, since they like this kind of thing, they'll speak up a bit today
[01:02:13] Flami: you'll have to tell me what they say!
[01:08:27] Corey: you can be a guest teacher via cell phone if you want to do the class for me for free :P I'll type up the article so you can read it for them
[01:12:32] Flami: ha
[01:18:04] Corey: I can put it on speaker phone
[01:18:12] Corey: those kids even speak pretty clearly... it should be okay
[01:18:54] Corey: I don't know how I got stuck with this kids' class in an adult school, though. there's a kids' school that they all say they went to previously in the same building
[01:24:15] Flami: how old are these kids?
[01:32:05] Corey: the youngest are 6th grade.. some jr. high, some high school
[01:32:11] Corey: most of my classes are old people
[01:33:23] Flami: then I'm not sure why the youngest kids would be in an adult school... and I don't know how well your little "guest teaching" gig would go over :P
[01:40:40] Corey: the kids at the kids school in that building are little kids. and now it's raining a lot, which means almost nobody will come... which means the class will be boring and suck because they won't talk enough, and we don't have enough people for good teams for the games

Edit:

[02:49:21] Corey: okay, I have noodles now, and not a lot of time to eat them
[02:49:54] Flami: STUFF YOUR FACE!
[02:52:16] Corey: crab and scallops too
[02:55:09] Flami: don't try to make me hungry at 2:55 AM :P
[02:55:36] Corey: and fish balls
[02:55:42] Corey: I made it alllll by myself
[02:57:05] Flami: don't you even think about it
[02:58:55] Corey: udon noodles. the big thick kind
[03:01:22] Flami: yes, I know well what those are :P I saw these little kids eating some on Friday :P
[03:01:38] Corey: I have steak and eggs every day of the week if I don't make noodles :P
[03:05:05] Flami: hahaha
[03:06:03] Corey: well, sometimes chicken
[03:06:17] Corey: I have some instant noodles too, but I haven't had to stoop that low yet so far :P
[03:08:53] Flami: but you can microwave those in three minutes!
[03:15:56] Corey: I don't have a microwave!
[03:16:05] Corey: or a stove or an oven...
[03:16:12] Corey: I have a hotplate / pot thingy
[03:21:15] Flami: oh... well, I don't know anything about that... I've seen that in CL ads for rental places, where they don't have microwaves / stoves / ovens...
[03:19:50] Corey: well, time to go to my kids' class.... so talk to you later :P
[03:23:03] Flami: bedtime here... talk to you later :P