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Summering

Amazing how the MRT becomes echoingly empty in the morning now that school's out. Would probably be a couple of hours later before the kids get out of bed to play. Of course, the afternoon commute remains just as crowded, as the commuters mix in with the students running off to their cram school classes.

They posted the college entrance exam answers in the newspaper for the anxious. The English questions were simple enough, but I had no clue on the Chinese questions, especially the ones about classic texts. Even had some trouble with the math, since I wasn't familiar with the Chinese technical names, plus it has been a while since Algebra 2 (damn Mr. Depasquale). I'm just glad it's all over because the GF got a job preparing exam papers to be sent out. It's good money (NTD 30K for two weeks' work), but they get locked up for two weeks with no outside communication at all. She couldn't even bring her MP3 player because it had FM radio built-in (one more reason to get an iPod). But there's lots of young people in there and the atmosphere is more like summer camp than Chinese sweatshop. Fun.