Belly Dance Performance

Last Saturday, on December 24, we had a belly dance performance near a train station, as I mentioned here. We all met at Kentucky Fried Chicken, and there we applied our make-ups and dressed ourselves in the outfits. Our performance was at three o'clock, and the teacher, earlier, told me to notify her when it was two thirty. We walked over to the train station at two forty, and we took a few pictures together. Than, we waited by the stage for our turn. Burrrgh!! It was freezing! (Thanks for pictures, everybody!!!)

I curled my hair the night before. This is the result!

Applying makeup!

One of the dancers took this with her camera.

The ladies from the pictures above and below are extremely nice!

We walked to the train station.

They took our pictures.

We were sooo cold.

Other performers.

The audience.

The lady in the center dragged us two away to take a picture. Haha!

The woman speaker was incredibly loud.

We waited by the stage.

The first group performed!

Our turn came!!

Strangely enough, I wasn't nervous. However, my running nose was tedious! It was too cold for us to endure.

A friend of mine from elementary school. The first time we met in 3 years!

Our belly dance teacher: a beautiful, confident, and a optimistic person.

Here's a video.

Finished!

Belly Dance Outfit

Here is the belly dance outfit for the performance tomorrow. Yesterday, I practiced putting the makeup and outfit on, with the help from my mom (Thanks, Mom!).

I'm going to be so nervous!!

16th Birthday

I know it's been a while since my birthday passed, which happened on November 26, but I wanted to have a post about it. I was really happy on that day! It was simple, but I loved it. We had my Dad's homemade pizza (which was delicious!), and chocolate cake afterwards while watching a Alfred Hitchcock film.

A picture of me with the cake.

One of the best birthdays I ever celebrated~

Belly Dance Performance

On December 24th, I'm going to have a belly dance performance in front of a train station. At first, I thought my teacher said we're going to be performing at a junior high school, but then she informed us that it was going to be at a local train station (or near, I'm not sure.). Anyway, I was completely bewildered.

Two groups from my class are going to be performing. Five dancers in each group. In my group, three dancers stand in the front; two in the back. The other group is the other way around. The teacher put me in the front row, in the center. Uh-oh. I better not screw up then. I'm going to be incredibly nervous.

I'm not sure when the performance is going to take place. Somewhere between 1 p.m to 4 p.m, according to our teacher. I have no idea what we're going to wear, but I can already guess. :/

Wish me luck! Got a lot of practicing to do.

In Taipei: December 2nd ~ 5th.

Last Friday, on December 2th, My mom and I went to Taipei to see my grandparents and my cousin. I haven't seen them in months, so I was pretty excited. We got up around 6 a.m, and got to the train station around 7 a.m. We had a delicious vegetarian sandwich to eat on the train. We sat there for over 2 hours, but I wasn't bored since I had my MP5 and a book to read.

We got to Taipei around 10~11 a.m. We stayed there for about 3 days and came home on Monday afternoon. Here are the pictures! (The picture on the top left is a calligraphy that my Ah-gong - grandfather - wrote.)

We got up too early....

.... Aargh, our sleepy-faces.

The train station at 7:20 a.m.

We arrived in Taipei and decided to buy Japanese sushi for lunch.

A wet day in Taipei.

For dinner we went to have vegetarian food. A vegetarian stinky tofu pot (but it's really good!).

Water spinach with mushroom.

Sesame ball.

Shredded vegetable with lettuce cup.

Pea sprout.

Mung-bean noodle with tofu pot.

Bitter melon with salty egg yolk.

On Saturday night, we went to the night market.

A local shop that sold all sorts of things. (My mom smiling in the picture.)

Earrings and other jewelry.

It was pretty crowded.

More earrings, bracelets, and necklaces for sale.

A clothing shop.

Hsian-tsao soup. Something to warm us up.

The biggest sesame balls I have ever seen. It expanded when it came out of the water.

The next morning we went to have breakfast...

.... never anticipating how crowded it will be.

That afternoon, my aunt took my cousin and I to see a movie, but we couldn't see it. It's complicated....

This is at Ximending ( 西門町), a young people's land.

We had this as a snack.

We went to see Tomboy, a French movie. It was pretty good with wonderful acting.

My Ah-gong's chops.

Ah-gong's chops.

The master stamps a chop on one of his calligraphy.

Ta-da!

My Ah-gong carved the one with flower and the hand himself.

Thanks for reading! I had fun, as usual. ;)