I've been pushing myself into the Australia experience, finding jobs, trying to get on with people etc.  Every time I think of Taiwan though, I think with longing, thinking only how much better stuff was there.  Food is cheaper and tastier, there's more to do, I could practice chinese, explore, and I had a few good friends ( Read more... )

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I have a camera!!! It's a crappy one, but it means this post will have pictures!

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Sorry I haven't been filling you in on life at Nan Ao so much ( Read more... )

This is my third Wwoofing experience in Taiwan. So far it's been not been too bad. When I arrived I was introduced to 3 other Wwoofers. At first they were all talking to me in English, and some of their English was a bit confusing, so I told them I like it when people speak chinese with me, wich they all seemed fine about. Today we were mopping ( Read more... )

Yesterday I went by myself into the mountains of Taipei.

From my house, you can take the metro to xindian in the south of Taipei, take a bus which costs 30TWD (about 60p) to a coutnry town in the mountains called pinglin, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinglin_District) and then take a free bus up a stream to a beautiful area, where you can go ( Read more... )

Here's my video of my holiday with Ava.  It's all edited with Windows movie-maker, ad took about 3 days to edit up.

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I'm on holiday with my landlord (who is now a good friend, and called Ava) to Sun Moon lake, Tainan and Gauxiong.  Neither of us have jobs at the moment so thought just after chinese new year break would be a great time to go ( Read more... )

I think I left off about when I'd been invited to go and help give out milk powder to mothers in the slums of bangkok ( Read more... )

I've moved into a new flat.  It's just a bedroom cum living room - pretty spacious, with two desks, a bed (of course) a sofa and a tv in, and a small bathroom ( Read more... )