Last night and through this afternoon was a terrible typhoon that hit the entire island of Taiwan. Fortunately that meant we got a break from working. But at around 2:00PM Max rushed us out of here to go to the workshop because he got a phone call that the Ami were waiting for us, remember its raining very hard and strong winds. It completely touched my heart, they wanted to work on their day off, they were excited and rarin' to go! When we got there, people were hanging out, kind of the mingling part before the meeting. With warm hospitality they gave us beer, rice wine, beetle nut, and cigarettes.
And then I met the real deal, Arik. There she is pictured above. It was actually really sweet moment, when she found out I had her name, she grabbed her husbands hat off his head and put it on like mine!
Shuan Roo translated a little conversation between us. Arik was just so excited that one of the guests was named after her, she was talking really loud with enthusiasm. She said her claim to fame was that she gets a phone call to be invited to every party, every church in the area knows Arik, and even people in Taipei know the name Arik. I told her it was an honor to be named after her. She shook my hand and said:
"Ka ku ci Arik," ("My name is Arik" in Ami) " ki su ci Arik. " ("Your name is Arik" in Ami)
