The Land Where it's Already Tomorrow: Chapter 20: My “Cut-Off” Date, Music in the Park, Lao-puo Loves Esmerelda November 27th 2006 How do you top a wonderful weekend in Hualien City? It seems that the answer is simple, “wait until the next weekend, and have another one”.
Friday night was a run-of-the-mill blast—beer with my pals from the August orientation at a bang-up waterfront place in Hualien Port, followed by a gourmet Thai meal. Everyone was very anxious to meet Lao-puo.
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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