When I was on my way home today, a car drove right into a pidgeon, hurling it 5 meters through a trail of feathers and onto the bicycle track right in front of me.
So I stopped up and looked at him for a while. At first he seemed like he didn't see me, then he started trying to get away but he could only move his left wing, everything else seemed broken or at least not his to control anymore except for his head.
Then after some time, he just stopped fighting and died.
Actually I was quite relieved that he died all by himself. Otherwise I would have to do it. Then I carried him away from the track, onto some grass so that no-one would fall over him on their bikes or something.

And this man was heading right towards me, talking on his cellphone, with a dog on his leash. He didn't seem to have noticed even though there were feathers everywhere and me standing in the middle of the bicycle track. (Oh yeah, the man was walking on the bicycle track instead of the pedestrian side walk too.)
His dog probably would've eaten the pidgeon if I didn't warn him to pull a little away from it when he walked by. I wonder if he would have done anything to the pidgeon if I hadn't moved it away.
I'm not expecting people to cry over a stupid pidgeon getting himself killed, but at least you can help out putting it someplace where kids wont find it. Of course I did that already, so no one else would need to do that, but they could at least just try to look as if they cared instead of walking by, pretending that the pidgeon and I never existed. I felt like a crazy freak removing that carcass. Imagine if it hadn't died by itself and I would have to kill it too.

Yesterday I found a runaway dog, also on my way home, he was dead scared of me, so I couldn't get near him at all. He didn't have a neckband either, so I called the police, said where he was.
No one else had called them to say it was missing so they told me to leave it and they would come catch it in 30-60 minutes if the owner didn't call them.
He was running through peoples gardens and around near a really trafficked road when I found him. He seemed to have been running about for a while, totally disoriented. He had probably went out to find a lady friend but gotten lost on his way home. Probably scared by the traffic. (And hell, I wouldn't let him go back to that heavily traficked road. He could cause a real serious accident.)
I haven't heard from the police whether they have found the owner or captured the dog yet, but I'll assume it's fixed.

I wonder what strange thing will occur to me tomorrow when I head off from school again.

This evening, I am very tired again. Another big lot of stuff happened today, this time with a few pictures because I just put the pictures onto Joni, my host mothers mac. (I can barely operate this contraption at all. I am not used to using a mac and everything is in Chinese including, of course, the keyboard, so I need a bit help to get around - just like when I am out in the city.

  

   David's family and his wife's sister. 

Joni's brother, David, showed me around Taipei (in some parts belonging to Taipei country) today. (And I have been with the MRT quite some times already.) We went to danshuei laujei, a street by the river where the locals tend to go to relax. The river side is full of stores selling all kinds of edibles and "drinkables" (and that which is both.) There, I tried cooked sea snails (some little snack ones that take a very long time to eat because they are still in there shells and you have to suck them out one at a time, so I didn't eat very many of them.) I also tried fishballs which are not bad and sweet potatoes cooked with sugar, tastes very good even though most of the Taiwanese think it is too sweet. It's a different kind of potato than from home, and when you have prepared it in the way mine were (there's two ways of preparing them,) they get hollow and sticky inside, while dry and sugarish on the outside. Later David and his family took me to a snakes bar to eat baozi buns and fishball soup. By the way, if you ever talked to someone who have been to Taiwan, they will probably have told you that mango's are very good in Taiwan. I haven't had a real mango yet, but my mango icecream was very good. (Icecream, that's what the Taiwanese called it but actually it's a kind of slush-ice.)

After a lot of walking in the incredibly hot and humid air, we drove a long way up the mountainside to drink some tea and coffee with a toast next to the nice view of sanchi mountain, a nice place where the air was a little cooler. I think it was around 27 degrees Celcius compared to the 34 degrees down at sea level. Up in the mountains people keep a lot of animals, especially dogs but also usually chicken. I even saw a squirrel while there.

  

China is famous for being a place where people eat dogs, but people i Taiwan do not eat them because in Taiwan, eating dog is illegal. 

Later on that night, I went with Joni to have dinner with her parents and their badminton club at a not very fine restaurant, but still a restaurant over average standard, and we ate a lot. They served so many dishes I lost count of them, and we ate everything from raw fish to grilled frog. We are both very stuffed and it has been a tiring day, so I am really just waiting for the picture of the dog to upload right now... (I would have uploaded a picture of my grilled frog legs too but I see it is going to take a long time if I do.) .... Sorry, you will have you wait do without the dog for now actually.