This week

We're joined here with George Will and Donna Brazile, in This Week, at the round table... 

Wednesday, from noon to night, I was with a few students/friends in Taipei.  We saw a Lego exhibition of lego art by the artist Nathan Sawaya.
See "Popular": http://brickartist.com/category/gallery/
I missed the Salvador Dali exhibition, because I met up late with them, but I'm planning on seeing that gallery.
Later, we took a 90 minute bus-ride to a place, and had lunch at a casual restaurant.  Each dish was 40yuan (aprox. $1.50) for a good serving of rice-porridge or oolong noodles in soup.  I had noodles, and the cook made a vegetarian version for me.

Thursday, I biked about a mile to the English school, that hasn't been used for a few years.  I brought my sketchbook and laptop.  When I got there, I played Turisas (folk/death metal), and drew pictures for about an hour.  I drew 6 pages (I can usually only draw 1-2 pages in a day).  Then I biked back home, and took a break from drawing.  Later that night, I drew another 2.5 pages, listening to Lady Gaga and Britney Spears.  It was mentally tiring to draw.
I found that my drawings while listening to metal looks different than drawings when listening to Gaga/Spears.

Friday was the first time that I met up with 2 high school students to swim at their high school.  They swim from about 7AM-9AM every Wednesday and Friday.  I'm trying to take up this activity because I usually exercise.

Saturday, I finished my flower watercolor.  It took 2 classes, 4 hours total.  It's about 4'x2', and based off of a photograph.  Since I used a photo, I don't think highly of this painting.  I want to get some real flowers and paint them using watercolor.

Yesterday, I visited a Buddhist organization that reuses things, based on the belief that most things can be reused.  It's a recycling and redistribution place, similar to the idea of the Salvation Army.

I found out today that parmansan cheese is not vegetarian.