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These are short journal entries I’ve jotted down for the past month. I’ve wanted to expand them but there’s really no time, so I’m leaving them as-is.
Happy summer solstice! In this part of the world, it was summer solstice today. My friends and I celebrated midsummer at the Fremont fair. Needless to say, it was much fun. Gotta love those naked bikers!
I loved the solstice parade, with its colourful costumes, and people from all walks of life! I’ve always wanted to see a real parade, and this has in part been urged on by my favourite song from Yann Tiersen, La Parade — I wish I was in the parade.
I’m so jealous/but proud to be/ an ordinary girl!
My dream came true today.
The booths were pretty much the same as the other fairs I’ve been to — workshops and small businesses from the area. I enjoyed walking around nonetheless! And trying on some fun hats. Didn’t get to have much “fair food”, having grabbed a good plate of potato salad from one of the (ubiquitous) sandwich restaurants right after the parade. I got to have a piece of very good “hippie chocolate” though! (Well a hippie-looking guy was selling them in a hippie-looking booth.) It was heavenly. I’ve been trying to avoid eating chocolate (due to skin problems), but apparently, dark chocolate with sweet cream filling infused with plum wine was completely irresistible after all. There was a Russian piroshky van, too! (Which reminds me, I should visit the piroshky restaurant downtown some time.)
Ahh, good times!
Thou asketh me where I am;
I am a-viking with my good men.
Oh, to be home by nine-thirty?
I’m afraid, from my mind,
This hath completely escaped.
宜蘭傳統藝術中心
This place is a bit like the Taiwanese version of Skansen, just a little smaller and with a different emphasis. I had a lovely time watching the street performance and eating street-vendor ice cream of a very 1980′s flavour. My mother and I dropped by the Buddhist temple and drew a fortune-telling lot. We also visitesd a scholar’s residence, moved and rebuilt from its original site. Inside were exhibitions of early life and the old scholastic system.
