Caesar Park Taipei

... a Hong Kong resident :-) ! A lot of the local students actually were quite surprised about it, as they didn't know that every exchange student was eligible for having an HK ID.

On Friday morning I took the Airport Express to Hong Kong International Airport. I was surprised about the very friendly service of Thai Airways already at the check-in counter. They had about 6 counters open so no one had to fall in line. I took the flight No. 600 coming from ...

... than me - And worse still, they wanted another class next week and no doubt I would turn up. I wasn’t adapting well to being a happy smiley teacher. I didn’t know if I was cut out to be a children’s TV presenter and I disliked being ordered around by middle-aged Taiwanese women. I needed to go to a football match or something where I could swear and shout and be macho.

All he needed now was one of his students from the Kindergarten to walk by with their mother ...

... 6:40 am to head to the airport for the tour, the majority of students opted out. The group reported that the tour was wonderful. They saw several temples and visited a small town with shops etc. Chinese New Year was on Monday and Taiwan was still celebrating the occasion so they saw special programs and celebration events. The remaining group slept in. It was raining so only a few people walked around the block of the hotel to see what shops were available ...

... more I travel, the more my sense of humor becomes erudite and difficult to relate to others. Eight Elephants is a small hostel and soon after arriving I'd met everyone there. Half of them are students of Chinese or somehow employed in Taiwan. The rest are itinerants like myself. Dinner was a bowl of noodles and beef soup. Shortly after, I collapsed into a 14 hour sleep, induced to such depths, no doubt, by what had been some 30 hours in transit.

... that, only trapped on a plane. The guy next to me was eating it, I tried not to watch. Ok, enough about that... I'm off to kill the next hour in duty-free, and then back onto another plane for 5 hours to get to Jakarta! Yay! I'll drop a line when I get there, so you know I'm cool. Then I'm off to sleep in my nice king sized bed for 2 days to recover! (But I feel really great, so maybe I'll just take a nap/shower and hit the city!) Until then....

... translation for ya. :( The company that Seed Studio just bought and is going to merge with did a PS3 game, funded by the government, a Taiwanese bullet train simulator. Has full motion footage of all the bullet train rides, with what little you can do in the game overlaid on top of this as a view from the front. The sad things is that they couldn't look out to ether side (just straight ahead) as there are alot of military areas out in the middle of the island ...

... KMT) party and led all of China for many years. He and his party retreated to Taiwan at the end of the Chinese Civil War in the 1950's. He is credited for much of Taiwan's economic and social success. The memorial is quite impressive and houses many photographs, art, clothing, that ...

... he homestay we meet a group of bikers which has also spent the night at this place in another tong pu and is now preparing to leave. One young lady tells us that she saw us the day before walking the Northern Cross Highway ( N0. 7). So we exchange our stories, the one in which we walk and they in which they do the northern part by bike. Yesterday, when they saw us walking on the road they were is a ...

... after i went to Yu Ren Ma Tou (fisherman ferry) , ai.. stupid! i walked for 3 hours, i got lost again!. after there are a lover bridge. and i tried the chickenin there, it's great and nice! at mid night, we went to karokoe. it's cheap! 299 taiwan dollar for 4 hours, it's cheap..till 3 am.