Where did October Go?

I couldn't believe my eyes when suddenly I was writing the month of November on my curriculum plans...well in fact that said October until about yesterday! It may have been an extremely busy month but it was great fun! We had two days worth of Halloween at school and our staff dressed up at the crew from Alice in Wonderland...I was of course the cheshire cat! BUT...that isn't the easiest costume to find over here. We went to a costume rental shop. They were fresh out of pink and purple cat costumes. The next best solution seemed to be the pink panther haha. So I was the cheshire cat if you used your imagination!

These are photos from the boat burning ceremony we went to!

I was too tired to actually take any decent photos of the boat burning when they finally set fire to it at sunrise!....I probably looked like that man!

My friends and I all dressed up as Care Bears to go out for Halloween. Naturally people stare at a huge group of foreign people any who....but put on some bear ears and a flowers stomach patch and people are glued to ya!
Also, my Dad was in south east asia for business near the end of the month so he was able to stop by Kaohsiung for 3 days. It was great having someone familiar here. I got to take him all around our city, to a waterfall and even an infamous KTV party! I thought Karaoke had blown over and wasnt too cool any more....Oh boy was I wrong. We have full building of giants rooms with huge screens to scream, mostly chinese songs, well into the wee hours of the morning. I even drove him on the back of my scooter! He made for an interesting passenger....at one point he had his camera out taking photos on top of my head! It was a good trip and sad to see him head off to Korea after such a short time.
Today we are off to a small nearby island to go camping on the beach! Its still a cool 85 here and I am not missing the snow one bit :)

Hope you enjoyed some pictures of October for your viewing pleasure!