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Weekend Trip

And I am back from three days of sun, fun, and good food. Before you judge, I know that going on vacation during the typhoon aftermath is a bit inappropriate, but we’ve been planning this trip since July. This was our first opportunity at a weekend away and the last weekend before I leave for [ READ MORE ]

Pandas!

  • July 22nd, 2009
  • Posted in tourist

During the summer, I’ve been teaching a few high school kids who are home on vacation from Canada. They need extra English help, so they’re taking morning classes with me and another teacher to work on reading comprehension, writing, speaking, etc. On Tuesdays, we get to take them on field trips because the new Neihu-Muzha [ READ MORE ]

Dragon Boat Festival Weekend

Four day weekends are the way to live. What’s wrong with having a three-day work week? I bet lots of people would be down with that. Despite the fact that we have to make up Friday’s day off this Saturday. Wednesday Night: Watched Terminator Salvation. Action was great, Christian Bale was manly, not enough plot. [ READ MORE ]

Culture Shock

It’s bad enough that I have to maneuver through umbrellas while hoisting my own on rainy days, but it’s even more annoying to have to deal with them on cloudy/sunny days too. These Taiwanese women and their umbrellas astound me. It seems like they’ve all forgotten that they live on a tropical island – an [ READ MORE ]

Kenting 墾丁

I’m back and tanned! Kenting was AMAZING. The weather was so nice, the beaches so sandy, and the water so blue and warm. It took an hour and a half by high-speed rail to Kaohsiung, and then we rented a car when we got there, and it took about an hour to drive to Kenting. [ READ MORE ]