Wen Pin Kaohsiung

... Uinuva jattilainen heraillee ilmeisesti pikkuhiljaa silla potentiaalia kaupungissa kylla olisi kai vetaa suurempiakin turistilaumoja (Kaupungissa panostetaankin kovasti talla hetkella mielenkiintoisen matkailukaupunkikuvan luomiseksi).<br><br>Samoin kuin muissakin Taiwanin kaupungeissa paivarytmi tuntuu taallakin olevan paalaellaan. Kaduille on aivan turha lahtea ennen puoltapaivaa koska mikaan ei ole silloin viela auennut. Ollaankin ...

... ball but apparently wasn't. The players went down the court and threw the ball into a basket with no back board to get a point. The neat thing, I thought was that each side of the court had set players so when the action moved across the line into the other zone it was picked up by the other half of each time. We watched the Netherlands clobber Australia. We were trying to go see the tug of war and ended up having a really nice walk along the water ...

... get to take a nap, but first have to get through these boring classes. I also hear that the Abott will be talking to us later- what an honor!<br><br>During break time, we went to a tea house near the dining hall. I got chocolate milk tea, others got coffee ice cream, almond milk tea, fries, and dumplings. Browsed gift shop- what would everyone like for souvineers? I bet ...

... teh burning over the back sides of my ribs, up to my neck and shoulders. I try to tell myself that this will get better with time and practice, but I'm not very convincing.<br><br>It's been rumored that a typhoon is coming in a couple of days. I hope so- I love the rain and wind, at least prefer it to wet, sticky sun. They sky has been darkening all day today, the palm trees are trembling!<br><br>Note to self: buy monk shoes!

... roly poly fish heads - fish heads, fish heads, eat them up yum. See the video here - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rx9KjdUj Kzc (FF to 2:15 in the video for the song). Right outside of the restaurant there was a stall grilling whole squid, including the tentacles. We ordered one. They grill it with soy sauce, sesame seeds, and spices. It was really good! We got a good picture of it. After lunch, we walked up to ...

... didn't surprise me, although I did expect Shuying to ge a few. I figured the language barrier would be enough to foil our audience, so I was pleasantly surprised when I walked out into the hallway to leave for mid-afternoon break and was stopped by a gentleman who asked me many questions. Patrick presented in the afternoon, after Ted, and I have no idea what he talked about, but he had pretty maps. By 4pm, I was ready to go back to the hotel and take a nap. No ...

... it, and made it uniquely Taiwanese. The mall is large and square in shape. There are permanent stores ringing the outside on 3 of the 4 walls (the escalators are on the 4th), and it boasted the names of designers from Hong Kong and other parts of Asia. The inside however, looked like an upscale flea market that sold clothes. There were not real walls separating vendors, but everyone seemed to know their place. In the downstairs there was a food court that I didn't explore, but I ...

... es um Schicksal und Glueck geht, sind die Goetter gefragt. Zu religioesen Festtagen (allen voran chinesisch Neujahr) werden auch die Tempel aufgesucht und zu Hause religioese Rituale vollzogen (siehe Neujahrs-Blog), wie z.B. Geld verbrennen, einen Opfertisch aufbauene, etc. um der Familie Glueck und Erfolg zu bescheren. Zur mitte jeden Monats im chinesischen Kalender werden auch vor dem Haus (bei traditionelleren Familien und Geschaeften) Opfertische ...

... Computer in Kaohsiung). Tainan ist eine der aeltesten Staedte Taiwans und historisch sehr bedeutsam. Es wurde von den Hollaendern gegruendet, hatte zwei Forts, wurde dann von einem Quing General befreit (der es als Rueckzugsgebiet vor den Ming Erorberen nutzte, hat aber nichts genutzt, die Quings waren Geschichte). Der Quing General Koxinga ist dadurch aber einer der wenigen, die von allen verehrt werden ...

... und sprachen, od** od** od**, ab** es lohnte sich jeden Tag. Das Highlight war sich**lich d** Ausflug zu den heissen Quellen Maolin. Mit dem Auto fuhren wir **stmal vorbei an rieseigen, wogenden Bambuswaeld**n, die in saftigem Gruen leuchteten und mit Bananen und Kokospalmen durchsetzt waren, so dass man sich wirklich wie in ein** Filmlandschaft vorkam. Es ging eine steile, kurvige Strasse entlang durch eine wilde B**glandschaft und vorbei an einem ...