Summit Kaohsiung

... a real cool little island southwest of Kaohsiung. We rented two scooters and some snorkeling equipment and paroozed through the reef and saw many different little fish and some strange creatures that local fisherman/tour guides had caught. After that we were wiped so we came home and got some amazing pizza from a hut and called it a night. It has only been 3 days since we arrived in Kaohsiung and it feels like we have been living here for a while, this place is great.

... Probably no one's taking vitamins nor drinking enough water. I just hope they don't go easy on us because they already cancelled vespers tonight and tomorrow all evening activities are cancelled. I love naps just as much as anyone else, but this program has been running for 8 years and has not had this many sick people before. This includes our 3rd partner, who has not come with us for any part of the personal project. She's ...

... br>Later, because of the rain all our midday activities were cancelled, so I went to see the so-called Buddha relic, which is supposed to be the historical Buddha's actual tooth. You can't just see it- you have to pray in its presence, so we sheepishly entered only to find that it was within a gold container, behind a bamboo curtain, behind a glass window... an we were doing prostrations so we couldn't really see anything.

... 8211; I like espresso. They think it is too strong. We head back to uncle’s house. On the way to the metro – I order a stamp of my name – everything official in Taiwan is signed with your name and a stamp. So – I order one. If I ever decide to buy real estate – then it will be useful. I also stop and buy some fabric that is used as a border for calligraphy. This stuff is so cool – I plan on using it for ...

... her priority to inform us about all parts of the museum. Patrick did a wonderful job of translating her information. I was surprised to learn that the initial Deans of the college were Japanese, not Taiwanese or Chinese. It wasn't until after WWII that the college got it's first Taiwanese Dean. The museum had a section dedicated to neat little mechanical devices that were used to teach engineering students about how different motors and gears worked, and a ...

... angesagt um mit dem L**nstoff nachzukommen. Viele Kind** klemmen also den ganzen Tag hint** den Buech**n und dementsprechend viele Brillentraeg** gibt es auch hi**...auss**dem haben wir das Gefuehl, dass die soziale Entwicklung dadurch wirklich beeintraechtigt wird. Die Jugendlichen scheinen zumindest von Int**essen und V**halten ein bis zwei Jahre hint** deutschen Kids zurueck zu sein. Und selbst wenn manche Elt**n diesen L**ndrill ablehnen, muessen sie ...

... blue poster with Chinese writing and our names written near the bottom. It was an advertisement for our talks at NCKU next week! I must get a copy of it to bring home for my scrap book. Melinda, Ted, Shuying, Alan, Patrick, and I sat in the conference room in the Earth Science department and waited for the rain to stop so that we could go to the NCKU Medical College Cafeteria for lunch (evidently it has the best student food). The Americans joked that since ...

... hi** eine fundamentale Rolle im Leben. Das sieht man auf den **sten Blick wenn man raus auf die Strasse geht, wo es fast ueb**all irgendein kleines Restaurant, eine Garkueche od** V**kaufsstand in Sichtweite gibt, so dass man ausgesprochen bequem etwas Essbares **stehen kann. Gewisse Strassen bestehen dann fast aussschliesslich aus Restaurants, die sich g**adezu aneinand**reihen. Es scheint ein unglaublich gross** Teil d** Leute damit beschaeftigt zu sein, Essen ...

... es, naechste Woche wuerde ich eine Familie besuchen. Am Samstag habe ich dann erfahren, dass ich in 5 Tagen meine Sachen gepackt haben soll und abends umziehe. Aber, ich bin ja "jung und flexibel", wie mein Tanztrainer zu sagen pflegt, und von daher war das weiter kein Problem. Mittlerweile habe ich doch mehr als ich erwartet hatte, aber in ein paar Stunden war alles wohl verstaut. Als Gastgeschenk habe ich allerlei ...

The defining experience of my trip to Taiwan was roaring around Kaohsiung on the back of a scooter. Few things could have prepared me for, or compared to, the exhilaration of riding a scooter, and the choking reality of traffic in South East Asia.

I arrived in the city by bus from the capital, Taipei. My first impression of Kaohsiung was being dropped off on the edge of the most chaotic and uproarious traffic I have ever ...