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An Amazing "Carolyn Weekend"
... Taiwan. Full of amusement park rides and surronded by Dakeng mountains... and yes for the first time since I've been here I saw tons of stars!!! It was the most wonderful night filled with dancing, making new friends, and playing in the fabulous tea cups (just like in Disney World) and climbing gorilla rock!
This morning, Sunday, I headed to Da'an, a beach on the west coast. I got completely lost multiple times, and met so many awesome people along the ...
Making a Dogs Day - Lantern Festival 2011
... the train station....and so commenced the chaos. What we didn’t know was that about five million Taiwanese people were also going on the train, what train to take to get there, and where to go once we got to the right town. But like I always say....things tend to work out, somehow. So we manage to get our train tickets and we waited. Before getting on the train that we thought was the right one, we decided to ask a young guy if this was indeed the right train. He said ...
Wuling Farm Tour
... not swimming back to the ocean and swimming upstream like their relatives in North America, they are much smaller and extremely delicate. Even any kind of pollution such as pesticides and easily wipe them out. The Taiwanese Natural Conservation agency as well as the government strongly forbid fishing and using pesticides in the surrounding area. As a result, Wuling Farm can only grow fruit organically, pesticide ...
Cultural Exchange
Jake has been doing a couple of cultural exchanges with two groups of Taiwanese students who are majoring in English. They usually ask him a lot of questions about American (One question was: We hear that New York City is one of the nicest -as in the people are nice- cities in America do you agree?) and give him weird Taiwanese food to eat and ask him how he likes it. He had to eat pig blood cake which is literally made with pig's blood ...
Rav E O lee Me Olll E
I moved into my new pad today. I'm up on the 4th floor in room 207. The room is interesting, but I think it is a lot better than where I was living in Taichung City. All this place needs is a bit of love--In due time it will turn from white walls to an Asian Palace.
It is currently year 99 in Taiwan and the date is 9/9/99 by their traditional Calendar. There is nothing happening tonight, but I know from my co-workers and Rami that it is ...


