Zhong Ke Hotel Taichung

... plan on visiting Fengjia night market Enjoy Motel is located about five minutes from the night market and is also conveniently located next to Shin Kong Mitsukoshi a famous<br>Japanese department store based in Taiwan. Additionally, there are<br>batting cages located around the corner if baseball interests you. <br>Enjoy Motel is located on No.19, Shihjheng N. 7th Rd., 408 Taichung,<br>Taiwan ( 04)-22597799.<br>

... thrown my way. <br><br>On Monday I had a new student start bringing my number of students to 10 for the week. He is new to the school and seems to be adjusting really well. Then today at 5:00 I found out that I will have ANOTHER new student starting on Monday so I will now have 11 students. It will be a tight squeeze in my little room but we are doing some rearranging so it should be ok for Monday. Adding new students is a lot of ...

... staff members to play badminton. There is a place close to us were you can rent out courts but there isn't any air in the building so it gets HOT. It is funny to see how serious some of the Taiwanese are about playing and I never knew it could be such an intense sport. Many people were stretching before playing. Us Americans strolled in there and played a friendly game. It was fun to play, I hadn't played since gym in middle school. I ...

... a trip to get some groceries on Monday night and yet again got stuck in the rain on the way home with my groceries and broken poncho I again got completely wet! I need to invest in a new poncho ASAP!!<br><br>Wednesday was a busy day! It started off with getting the chance to see a Solar Eclipse! Taiwan was in the area that was able to see the eclipse so at 9:30 we took all the students outside to see it! It was really cool to see. I remember going outside to look at one when ...

... guess about 80-90% of the foreigners here are teachers! We stayed out until about 2AM before we called it a night. <br><br>Saturday was a day of exploring. Dawndra, my roommate, and I got on our scooters and began exploring. It was nice to be able to just drive and find out where some places were. Surprisingly I am beginning to know the streets and know where I am going. Never thought that would happen, everything all looked the same when I got here.....lots of Chinese writing that I ...

... I was excited too. It would be an interesting experience to see Chiayi's house as well as experience my first barbeque in a foreign country. Chiayi lives with her family and two dogs (who are fluent in Chinese, I might add) in a very residential neighborhood. The hosues are all crammed together and there is little room to park a car or moped. Her father owns a professional painting/welding business that he operates from within his garage ...

... as Lake Tahoe is to the United States. It is a beautiful freshwater lake in the middle of the mountains with crystal clear water and a unique bluish color to the water. They attempt to preserve the cleanliness of the area by forbidding any swimming in the lakes waters. However, it does not stop over 10 tour boat companies from running their boats in the water all day long. There are also a number of touristy villages that surround the lake as well. The weekend we ...

It was an epic day today in my Taiwanese trip. Our administrator presented me with an invaluable piece of plastic: my Taiwanese "Green Card," also known as my Alien Residency Card (ARC). My ARC is important for many reasons. One reason is that it allows me to be an official resident of the country of Taiwan. I no longer need to apply for a visitor's visa, and I can come-and-go as I please from the country for one whole year. This will ...

... third straight "first day of school." However, one of the teachers in our office came up to me just before I left to begin teaching the third graders and asked, "Do you have Eagle in your second grade class?" I said, "Yeah, I will start teaching him again in August." "Well," she stated, "I taught him last year and I asked him how he liked you. He said, 'Teacher Scot is soooooo cool!'" On my walk to class, I walked past ...

Today, I turned the big 2-4. It marked yet another birthday that was celebrated outside of home. The long list of non-Franksville celebrated birthdays has now included the following: a) Cheyenne, Wyoming in 1991 b) St. Louis, Missouri in 2000 c) Juarez, Mexico in 2002 d) Taichung, Taiwan in 2008 The day started off pretty good. I walked into the office, made my traditional cup of "Mr. Brown" instant coffee, and was greeted by everyone with a smile ...