One of my favorite things about life in Taiwan are the constant surprise
celebrations. It's not that rare to be walking down the street and be passed
by a small blue truck full of musicians -- which I've been told is part of
funerary ceremonies -- beating drums and tooting on the instrument you can
hear in this video, sounds kind of like a gazoo.
Today is the last day of the ghost
month, according to Fanfan, so there are little celebrations going on as
the day winds down (or starts, I took this at about eleven in the morning).
2 comments:
cool video! nice to see the hood. i used to play in your alley all the time when i was a kid. my dad's friend used to live in that yellowish building in the middle of the video (at the beginning of the video), so we've been there many times. not sure if they still own that place. last i heard they moved to toronto. oh, i think there's a kindergarten just down a few doors from you. my bro went to that same kindergarten some 30 years ago! still can't believe we live in the same hood! small world!
That's crazy...
The kindegarten is directly in front of the house.
You can see it in the freeze-frame of the video when you load the site. It's the green building at the bottom left of the screen.
I really want to meet up sometime. Things have been really stressful lately. But we'll do it soon.
Okay?