Han-Hsien International Hotel Kaohsiung

... tyynyt. Elokuvaa siis katsotaan makuaasennosta ja koko lysti kustantaa pari euroa..

Iltaisin kaupunki heraa henkiin ja katumarketit tayttavat keskustan kadut. Joka ilta on myos paukkunut ja rytissyt kun tumma taivas on salamoinut ilotulitusten tahtiin (syyta ei tiedeta). Ihmiset valtaavat kaduille asetetut pikkupoydat ja joka puolella grillataan rapuja ynm. perheiden keraantyessa tyopaivan jalkeen yhteen. Tama kaupunki siis ...

... Erin, Theresa, Sam and myself. We brought a new teacher along and had our friend Craig join us. We had a fantastic meal of Taiwanese food and then cake which thankfully turned out to be a good. Many of the cakes look good but don't always taste that way.
And finally, Mom had been riding with me just about every day on the scooter so we needed a picture of that. She and I took the scooter out to a lower traffic area the one day and Mom played ...

... br>From there we went straight to vespers. I was happy to not have to walk up 7 flights of stairs, only 3ish. Then, we walked to the women's buddhist college to experience the drum and bell ceremony. Just sat in the dark on the steps and listened. My favorite aspect of it is that it was night time, so no sun and nice breeze. Took quite a while though... less time for sleep.

... trip to women's buddhist college- tour library, frescoes of lotus sutra,guanyin (wiki) shrine
-then community service, went to the top of FGS, cut the grass with tiny machetes on an animal compound with pygmy horses, peacock families, and snails in shells (i've never seen that before!)
+on ...

... start following me around the entire lighthouse area. Its like a little kid swarm. Crazy! Since they cannot pronounce Marcus, I start telling them my name is pi-jo (beer). So they all start yelling pi-jo, pi-jo, pi-jo! I imagine this is like being a celebrity. They are running around in circles in a frenzy. I have no idea what to do! Fortunately, Irene started talking to them in mandarin and got them to settle down ...

... for returning Ted and Shuying to the airport in the morning, while Melinda and I discussed plans for the next day at the conference. Ted, Shuying, and I decided to walk down the street to the local massage parlor to get a neck and foot massage. Unfortunately, the only options available were 60 mins for feet only or 60 mins for whole body not including feet. Neither of which were appealing to me. so I returned to the hotel. I'm tired anyway, and it's time for bed

... your clothes will glow, a condition he says is not cool. Shuying decided that she needed a nap, while Ted took hung out with Alan and Patrick. We agreed to meet up in the hotel lobby at 6:30p to go get dinner then visit the night market. With clockwork precision, Alan, Patrick, and Ted returned to pick us up at the hotel. Patrick suggested that we go get spaghetti at an Italian restaurant, which we were all to happy to eat. Dinner looked very promising from the outside. There ...

... nicht nur ein Geruecht ist, denn dafuer habe ich mich auch extreme frueh aus dem Bettchen gezwungen. Das Ritual als solches war aber auf jeden Fall sehr sehenswert und hat einen in eine andere Zeit, in das klassische China zuruckversetzt. Zu guter Letzt gibt es dann auch immer mehr Christen hier. Vor allem in meinem Projekt natuerlich, aber ich habe z.B. auch eine sehr streng katholische Pfarrersfamilie kennen gelernt und immer wieder trifft man Leute ...

... und damit gen Himmel geschickt, umd die Goetter froehlich zu stimmen. Zu guter letzt werden dann an die Haustuer "Men Lian" Schriftrollen aufgehaengt, auf denen allerlei Glueckwunsche stehen...und weil naechstes Jahr das Jahr der Maus im chinesischen Kalender ist, gibt es auch ganz seusse Varianten mit Micky Maus - die Taiwanesen moegens einfach niedlich. Tags ueber ist man geschaeftig, allen Sitten und Brauechen gerecht zu werden ...

... thousands of years of misuse." .. "The word God has become a closed concept. The moment the word is uttered, a mental image is created, no longer, perhaps, of an old man with a white beard, but still a mental representation of someone or something outside you, and, yes, almost inevitably a male someone or something. Neither God nor Being nor any other word can define or explain the ineffable reality behind the word, so the only important questions is whether the ...