yellow watermelon and wax apple

Teaching, traveling and eating... Taiwan style

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May 11th 2010
So I've been at my job for about a week and a half now and things are ok. However, at this rate, it's going to be a very long year. Overall my students are pretty well behaved considering they're about 7-12 years old. It is just a little annoying that none of them seem to really want to learn English. It seems a little cruel that they go to regular school and then their parents force them to c ... read more

Asia » Taiwan » Kaohsiung

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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