Ballet
Yesterday, I took Ashley to see the Russian Children’s Ballet perform AliBaba at Sun Yet Sun Memorial Hall. It was her first ballet performance and 2nd live show (first was FantaSea in Thailand). She enjoyed it although at first she kept asking me “when will it be over?“. I explained to her that it was like a movie, you had to wait until the end. She was tired, but managed to stay awake and see the whole show. The performance was pretty good, costumes were nice, some good teenage dancers. We had fun and I’m glad that I took her.
A few weeks ago, Anthony and I went to see the Moscow City Ballet here and it was ok. I haven’t been to many ballets and enjoyed seeing that one. The costumes were bright and fun. The dancers weren’t the best and the music was a recorded track, not a live orchestra – so you’d hear the track stop and start again after a few seconds pause (I think expecting applause?). That was interesting. We had gone with a few other couples and all of them stated the ballet was horrible, the costumes gaudy, the dancers not good. I guess I’m just not “sophisticated” enough to have known any better since I actually enjoyed it.
Most of the families here are starting to get ready to go home for the summer. We’ve already said goodbye to one of Ashley’s friends until the end of August and two of her other friends will be gone in a few weeks. She seems to understand though that she will see them in a few months and doesn’t seem too upset by it.
There is a big convention in town this week – Computex – put on by Intel, I think. Anthony is pretty busy this week going to meetings and dinners because many people are in town for the convention. We had an enjoyable dinner last night at a new place called The Windmill – out by Miramar in Neihu – Italian food, although not pure Italian. Anthony had chicken parmesan and it was just chicken with cheese on it, no spaghetti noodles on the bottom. The girls enjoyed the place since it was some Koi fish outside. They were pretty active last night and did a lot of running around the restaurant – Ashley even sat at a table next to us for a while – playing with some toys another family had brought. She’s so outgoing and because people here think she’s cute – she gets away with just about anything – going to be hard on her back in the States when people won’t exactly appreciate her pulling up a chair while they’re out dining
A few weeks ago, Anthony and I went to see the Moscow City Ballet here and it was ok. I haven’t been to many ballets and enjoyed seeing that one. The costumes were bright and fun. The dancers weren’t the best and the music was a recorded track, not a live orchestra – so you’d hear the track stop and start again after a few seconds pause (I think expecting applause?). That was interesting. We had gone with a few other couples and all of them stated the ballet was horrible, the costumes gaudy, the dancers not good. I guess I’m just not “sophisticated” enough to have known any better since I actually enjoyed it.
Most of the families here are starting to get ready to go home for the summer. We’ve already said goodbye to one of Ashley’s friends until the end of August and two of her other friends will be gone in a few weeks. She seems to understand though that she will see them in a few months and doesn’t seem too upset by it.
There is a big convention in town this week – Computex – put on by Intel, I think. Anthony is pretty busy this week going to meetings and dinners because many people are in town for the convention. We had an enjoyable dinner last night at a new place called The Windmill – out by Miramar in Neihu – Italian food, although not pure Italian. Anthony had chicken parmesan and it was just chicken with cheese on it, no spaghetti noodles on the bottom. The girls enjoyed the place since it was some Koi fish outside. They were pretty active last night and did a lot of running around the restaurant – Ashley even sat at a table next to us for a while – playing with some toys another family had brought. She’s so outgoing and because people here think she’s cute – she gets away with just about anything – going to be hard on her back in the States when people won’t exactly appreciate her pulling up a chair while they’re out dining
posted by The Armstrongs at
5/30/2005
