A wise girl knows her limits.
A great girl knows she has none.

Tina and I go to our internship every Wednesday. We work at Sir Speedy, a company that does everything from printing to sending to designing. Say, you open a restaurant; you can go to their office and they will make everything for you like the menus, uniforms, posters, business and personal cards, etc. The office is in Tianmu near TAS, and we take the HSR to Taipei, the MRT, then the 220 bus to Tianmu Square.

We get to Sir Speedy at about 9:30-10:00 and check in with our mentor, Roma. She usually has some worked planned for us to do. We began by researching and getting familiar with environmentally friendly papers. I used to think there was only one kind of recycled paper, but we learned from this experience that there are many more. After we were done with the research (and Tina did some Chinese-English text translation) we went to Hong Ming, one of the companies that provides Sir Speedy with the paper supplies. Tina did most of the reading in that area so she wrote down a lot of notes on what we learned there.

Our next assignment was to re-design a brochure for Animals Taiwan, a group/organization that helps stray animals in Taiwan. It was actually pretty hard because neither Tina nor I knew how to use Illustrator and InDesign. But the employees there and our mentor were really patient and taught us some basics on how to use the programs, then we went off to explore them on our own. Our current project is to design a letterhead and envelope for Rong Zhong hospital. The ones they have now are too formal and official, and the hospital wants something that is more friendly.

This experience is really fun so far, especially with another classmate. I think I would have had much less fun if Tina wasn't on the same internship with me. We can help each other and ease some of each others' stress and (sometimes) boredom. Although this probably isn't my "dream job," I'm very happy interning there.

Where are Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling now?
Ken was going to go to jail, but he died of a heart attack during a vacation trip in Snowmass, Colorady, three and a half months before his sentencing. Jeffrey Skilling's defense attorney is still trying to help him out of this situation, but the chances of him getting through this are very slim. Skilling is currently in a prison in Littleton, Colo.

The Effect of "hubris" in the Enron debacle.
According to the WordWeb dictionary, the definition of hubris is overbearing pride and presumption. Because of their pride, they lied to the board of directors, bankers, and their own employees about what was going on in the company. Assuming that lying about their actual profits and whatnot and thinking that everything will be alright, and everyone will be fine with it, is a huge presumption. By hiding all these things from the public for its own image and personal profit; this was the hubtis that led to Enron's downfall.

Reflections on the movie.
Yet again, like the article about Science Park, this large corporation is trying to cover up the truth. For the past year, we've also seen groups and businesses hiding the reality from everyone. For example, there were the food industries where workers were mistreated as well as the animal stocks. In the end, everyone is trying to hide their bad side, especially corporations that want to sell and succeed. The case of Enron was an extreme example. I kind of feel sorry for Lay and Skilling, though. Once you make a lie, you have to keep on making lies forever to support the previous ones. By the time they realized it was getting bad, maybe it was too late for them to back out.

The most important points for me in this article were pollution and the fact that people were trying to cover it up. I don't think people really want to pollute the rivers and the air, but they can't help it because it's their job. They choose to be blind, and that's why I think the dancers could wear white blindfolds during the performance-- white because they try to convince themselves that what they're doing is good; a white lie.

I don't think there is a good or bad side in this, like the nature is good and the industries are bad. They have to sacrifice something to reach their goal, and most people aren't doing it willingly, especially the common workers. A part of the performance could be dragged, forced, reluctant, but a greater power (the bosses of the company) are pushing them on to do their work and ignore the damage.

There could be three groups; nature, the common workers, and the important people in charge of the corporation. In the end, it's a battle with three sides, and in the end the workers take off their blindfolds and decide to stand on nature's side instead.

• How did the site of DongMen alter the choreography that you created in the classroom?

• Now that you know this site better; If you were to go back to Dongmen what would you add or subtract from your choreography to make it stronger?

I wish more people had gone to see the Dongmen market before the shoot on Tuesday. I got the feeling that it was all very rushed. If the dancers had known what it was like there, there wouldn't have been complications like "the floors are too dirty to lie on" (hall), "this is the escalator?" (escalator) and "this clothing line won't work" (rooftop). If these things had been out of the way from the start, there would have been less complications on the day and much less time wasted. Some of the choreography had to be changed at the last minute. So now that everyone knows this site better, if we were to go back and re-do it, the choreography and preparation in general could be improved. Also, we didn't get to do as many shoots of Max as I initially wanted to. Now that we know the place better, we could have gotten through the scenes faster, and actually get into the "breaking down", which is one of the things I had been really excited about, but we didn't get into in depth.

For that whole period on Tuesday, I was only with my hall group and Max for most of the time, so I can't say much about the others. The hall group had to completely re-do the choreograph because the floor and the walls were too dirty to touch, apparently (hadn't we agreed to bring dirty/old clothes for this?). As for Max, he did a great job considering we practically started from scratch. I think I'm sounding too critical... I really like what everyone did and what they put into the shoot on Tuesday, it's just that I had this great vision, but we didn't have enough time or preparation for it.

Thoughts on choreography:

The movements could be smooth, "silent", that are seemingly harmless, or at least doesn't affect the river in a negative way. This is the general image that people have, one would never think Science Park could be such a bad influence to the natural environment. What really goes on behind their walls could be shown in several different ways. At a later stage in the performance, the dancers could slowly transition into more brisk movements which would suggest that it disrupts the calm pace of a river. We could also do the same thing by separating into two groups, one being their image on the surface, and the other being the ugly reality. I don't know how we could make people understand the pollution... trees falling, plants wilting, human and animal health and living conditions worsening?