Cloud Gate.

"Don't worry, we're not ballet dancers neither, this is a contemporary dance company!" Said my new (male)friend from Cloud Gate Company, and lifted a leg next to his ear.

Without a warning, I had been thrown straight into a ballet class with the company on my first morning in Taiwan. I travelled for 2 hours from my hotel with 3 MTR and one buss.I was proud of of finding all the right trains and busses with my amazing map- and Hanzi-reading skills, plus my newly established, unfailing "if in doubt, look in doubt!"-technique, which invited someone to help me within one minute.Taiwanese people are beautiful.

The dancers from Cloud Gate are alle genuine and open-hearted people. For me, they seem like pure gold in the field of dance. There's no competition among the dancers, no ranking order of any kind, nor could I sense any kind of negative energy of any kind. I felt welcome, and althought I expected to cry out of shame and look like a Kung-Fu panda, I actually enjoyed the ballet class with them. The atmosphere of the class was encouraging, humble yet hard-working, and yes, they all looked amazing.

The assistant artistic director, JJ, has been taking care of me and spent a lot of time showing me around, introducing me to everyone and driving me to different places. She also invited me to a dinner and to Cloud Gates tour in Chiayi next week, as well as her own gig as an assistant for a blind choir's prison-gig in another town in Taipei. 

I Always new I'm a lucky person in an extraordinary world, and the first couple of days has taught me a great deal about life and the universe again. Everything is starting to come together inside my head, after a few months of a great struggle. It all starts to make sense again.