Kingdom Hotel Hsinchu

No.238 section 1 Kuan- Fu Road Hsinchu, 4879, Taiwan

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What's In A Name

A travel blog entry by welovemondays

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... The reasons why are political, something we won't go into. However, in order to type this and almost certainly in order for any of you to be able to view it, Taiwan made the tools that we and you are using right now and made in Taiwan is a commonly seen label.

So what is Taiwan? This was part of the appeal in our choosing to come and live here, we knew so little about it, but we had heard some very pleasant stories. We've now lived here for nine months and we are ...

Life in Taiwan 3

A travel blog entry by hildreth75

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... it just seemed the easiest thing to do. So for the last 6 months of my employment I worked hard and played even harder.

Highlights

Maris House Warming Party: My South African friend Mari moved into massive house and of course this is all the reason we needed to party. My co-worker Stephen DJed and everyone dressed up so we could all pretend to be classy! Wine and jello shots followed and it turned out ...

Not Loving Mondays..... Quite so Much

A travel blog entry by welovemondays

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... we are teaching the phonics for the letter O, we must say "atter" and not "otter" because this may confuse the children....

Words of challenge this month include: Mom, airplane, donut, favorite, pajamas, in back of instead of behind, theater, neighbor and ax, amongst others. The real challenge is that we mark homework and keep having to correct and re-correct as we scribble favourite and then realise our mistakes. It is a sea of red ink by the time we ...

Life in Taiwan 2

A travel blog entry by hildreth75

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... Trail" A fun activity if you're in the area with not much to do. Ivory and I sure had fun!

Chinese New Year Trip to Green Island: Ivory and I planned a 10 day trip down to Tainan, Kenting, Taitung and over to Green Island. We were good old fashioned tourist in Taiwan and it was epic! I learned Taiwanese culture has adopted happy hardcore (fast techno) into their worship of their gods. Men dressed in god costumes ...

Injustice in Jhudong

A travel blog entry by yamahuh

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... definitely be earning our dosh by working more hours than we ever had before, we figured it was a fair trade off; the school seemed organized and well run compared to most other places we had worked and interviewed.

It just goes to show how deceiving first impressions can be.

The head honcho, 'Principal Mama’ as she liked to be called, initially struck me as being a cold-hearted, humourless and cut-throat business woman. It didn’t take ...