Taiwan World Games Opening 2009 Kaohsiung

Wow, the World Games Opening was a blast. I got a lot of videos but I'll just put the best ones here and explain them. I thought that pictures would be nice but videos better since there was a lot of singing and action. I got a video of a group of Hakka (Aboriginal people of Taiwan) singing, and for the chorus, the audience (or at least my area of the audience, I couldn't hear if anyone else was singing) sang along including me. It was really fun and the song was nice. My camera is way awesome; unlike my camera phone it records sound and isn't defeaning. I recorded taiko drumming at the Cherry Blossom festival and played it back when I got home. It was so shrill I think it might have damaged the speakers on my phone. The quality wasn't that good so I deleted it. Anyway, here's the video. Enjoy! I know I did. :) I will upload it as soon as I can but Blogger doesn't want to for some reason. I started uploading it at 3:00 AM Idaho time and at 5:44 AM it was STILL uploading. Usually videos process pretty fast. I was fed up so I quit for now. I'll keep trying. In the meantime here are some pictures from the games. Actually, I understand the problem now--the video has too many MB for it to be uploaded. Oh well. It still works on my computer and hopefully some virus won't come along and wipe all my pictures out because I just deleted them from my camera so I could take more. Enjoy the other videos I upload, then. :)

It's a really short video but I guess I'll keep it up. A bunch of people came out onto the stage and each person was holding a large balloon, the size of a Yoga ball. They ran around for a while with them and when they were done with that part of the show the balloons exploded and thousands of little balloons went up into the air. It was pretty cool. I have a better video of them flying though so I'll put that here.