The Land Where It's Already Tomorrow, Chapter 14: The Clip Joint, Butterfly Valley, My Lost-in-the-Woods Flashlight October 20th 2006 I enjoyed a wonderful long weekend. Friday I had lunch with my foreigner colleagues at the "Enigma" again, but I left early because rain was threatening and it was getting late. I can do rain, and I can do dark, but the two together are a misery. It's a pity—there were beach barbecues happening at the waterfront at Hualien Port. I keep thinking that there is a lot of time to do all the neat ... read more
Asia » Taiwan » Hualien In 1895, military defeat forced China to cede Taiwan to Japan. Taiwan reverted to Chinese control after World War II. Following the Communist victory on the mainland in 1949, 2 million Nationalists fled to Taiwan and established a government using th... ... read more
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This is the story of our first year living and working in Hualien County, on the east coast of Taiwan ROC. I am a schoolteacher in the junior high in Guangfu Township, and Lao-puo (Suzanne) studies Chinese at Buddhist Tzu Chi University in Hualien (where we live). My blog is called "The Land Where it's Already Tomorrow". The blog for our second year is now under way at http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Pagan-Dan/... full info