Happy Independence Day! We knew it would be hard to have
real Independence Day celebrations while we were in Taiwan, but we tried to
plan a few American things to do.
Our big plan for the day was to go to Costco
and have a pizza feast. As I looked up the directions I saw that there were
some baseball fields on the way and as we were walking there they just happened
to have some games going on. We stopped and watched a few innings of one of the
games as that seemed to be the very American thing to do. It was fun to watch
them play for a while. I think they were high school level students. It seemed
like they were very invested in the game (they were cheering for each other and
things like that), but I was very impressed by their sportsmanship (they were
still smiling as they walked off the field after getting thrown out at a base,
no one made any complaints about the referees calls even when he called some
clear balls as strikes, no one got upset when they struck out, and there were
not even any complaints or negative talk when a couple of batters got hit by
the ball).
After that we made our way to Costco. There, we ended up getting two
full pizzas (one Hawaiian and one supreme) and ate every single piece. We were
supposed to catch the bus home, but I forgot to look up what bus number we
needed to catch. So instead, we had to do the three mile walk back. Although
none of us wanted to do that, the children didn’t complain very much and it was
a good way to work off our calories.
We finished the night by watching Back to
the Future. We figured that would be a good movie for American culture. The
children all loved it. In general I thought it was a good movie for them, but
it had more swearing in it than I remembered and a scene where the dad, when he
was a teenager, was being a peeping tom. It is a movie that I wish we could get
an edited copy of sometime.
At the baseball game.
A temple that we stopped by on our way to Costco.
A different and cool playset that we found on our way to Costco.
Excited about the pizza!
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