http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Taiwan/Tainan/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Asia , Taiwan , Tainan en-us Mon, 07 Dec 09 21:08:27 +0000 Mon, 07 Dec 09 21:08:27 +0000 Day 529 on the road We had wanted to see some Taiwanese temples and we got more than we bargained for in Tainan. Tainan is famous for its abundance of beautiful temples and people from all over flock to the city for this reason. Our guidebook recommended a walking route that takes in the main temples and we had every intention to complete this walk.However we failed not miserably but still http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Taiwan/Tainan/blog-436488.html Here are a few photos taken in the middle of the first night during the storm. It's all from inside the apartment nothing too great but just gives a taste of the experience. Also 3 videos from the afternoon that add up to less than a minute just some rain a little tree flapping and a few howls. http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Taiwan/Tainan/blog-431126.html Hear r sum pics ov kids i teach english to. they learn really goodEdinburgh Montessori School. http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Taiwan/Tainan/blog-430814.html A quick trip to Anping on the west side of Tainan. It was ruled by the Dutch for just 38 years but they are the ones who got the town started and established it as an important place for trade back in the 1600s. At that time Anping was an island but since then there has been a build up of silt and it is now connected to Tainan. In 1661 some bastard named Koxinga was running away from enemies in http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Taiwan/Tainan/blog-411358.html Tainan has a bunch of traffic circles. I am on Fucian Rd Sec. 1. Yeah a lot of the roads have sections not sure why. That's not so bad but then a lot of streets will just change names once you go through an intersection. That's not helpful. Mostly that happens at the circles. They have english letters to let you know the street names too but some are so similar like Chenggong Rd and Chengrong http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Taiwan/Tainan/blog-404193.html Monday June 11th I caught my flight early this afternoon from HK to Kaohsiung on Dragonair Airways. Hong Kong's airport is massive and sophisticated and so it was a little weird arriving at Kaohsiung's small and simple airport. But anyway I grabbed the bus from the airport to the train station and luckily had a young local help me buy my ticket and then he showed me to my platform. Which was go http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Taiwan/Tainan/blog-381478.html We arrived in Fulong in early afternoon and found our way to the beginning of the Caoling Historical Trail after a close call with a guard dog guarding an abandoned house. The hike took a few hours and we travelled through a thick forest and ended on a grassy cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Fortunately we arrived at the cliff before it got dark although our hike down into the town of Dali http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Taiwan/Tainan/blog-359206.html First of all I want to apologize to all of my faithful subscribers for the lack of blog postings. It's been a crazy couple of months without much computer access but I promise there will be more blogs in the future. You can especially look forward to July and August when I will be traveling around Asia So I have been living in Taiwan for 8 months now which means I will be leaving in about http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Taiwan/Tainan/blog-242663.html The two weeks before Christmas brought with them great sadness. I felt so homesick and spent much of my time longing for the comforts of home my family friends American food hot chocolate on a cold winter day peppermint candy canes Christmas trees lights adorning the houses etc. It was a depressing time for me and many other foreigners in Taiwan. The Christmas music plays here in every http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Taiwan/Tainan/blog-230196.html First of all let me apologize for my lack of communication The computer I had broke and I must send it back to America where it will have a better home Therefore my internet time is very limited especially because my back won't let me sit for more than half an hour I also lost a lot of the pictures saved on the computer that I had planned to use to publish a blog in November. I h http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Taiwan/Tainan/blog-223298.html First of all Happy Halloween to everyone It seems that most of the world partied last weekend as I have seen many costumed pictures floating around on the internet As for me I was told that there would be mostly Western people at my friend's party because Taiwanese people do not celebrate Halloween. At about midnight I looked around and realized that I was the only white girl there I http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Taiwan/Tainan/blog-215576.html Yes it felt like Christmas when Caleb arrived in Tainan. Not only was I seeing my boyfriend for the first time in almost 3 months but he came bearing gifts Now I have a computer which will allow me to email more often hopefully Plus I got some exciting American goodies from Caleb my parents. Needless to say I was extremely happy on September 28th. But the 2 12 weeks flew by fa http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Taiwan/Tainan/blog-212294.html This blog is definitely way overdue Caleb has already been here for a week and a half and I have tons to write about our time together. But I thought I would still post up these pics from my trip to Kenting. My friends Craig Helena offered to bring us with them for the weekend because they have a big truck. So John Nicole and I joined the couple and their little baby Susanna for a rela http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Taiwan/Tainan/blog-209364.html Although I technically live in Anping a part of Tainan I didn't explore the old Anping until my friend Christine showed me around took a lot of pictures of me. I didn't have my camera so you'll have to see a lot of pics of me instead. I apologize in advance Christine is a teacher at Share Fun and has been living in Tainan for a few years with her husband. It was fun to ride around on http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Taiwan/Tainan/blog-203895.html Hello friendsIt has been awhile so I wanted to give all of you an update. I haven't taken any pictures yet but I wanted to let all of you know that I finally bought a scooter So now I can zip around the city. Actually I am confining myself to the area of the city I live in Anping for now. Once I get my scooter license and have more practice I will begin to drive in the more crowded pa http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Taiwan/Tainan/blog-201320.html I am very excited to have a new roommate Her name is Nicole and she is from New York City. Since May she has been teaching in China but decided to transition to Taiwan. She arrived last Thursday and we had a welcome dinner for her. My friend Tammy came over after the dinner and the three of us had some girl talk for a few hours. I am very happy that I have met so many nice women here t http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Taiwan/Tainan/blog-197306.html Some of you have heard others maybe have not. Three typhoons whipped through Taiwan last week with a big one expected on Saturday. Fortunately people in Tainan were not affected much by the typhoon. The only thing we had to deal with was a lot of screeching wind shaking our windows and a lot of rain. Oh yeah and we were told to stay indoors which was a bit of an inconvenience. For me http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Taiwan/Tainan/blog-194313.html When I stayed at my friend Emily's and everyone was still sleeping at noon I realized that I missed hanging out with people my age Since Emily has introduced me to a few people my social life is growing. Two weekends ago we all went to a movie played pool bowled. After a few weeks of wandering around Tainan by myself the socialization was very welcomed It also helped that everyone http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Taiwan/Tainan/blog-192311.html Imagine. You are surrounded by 15 students all of them 3yearsold okay Willy is actually 2. Half of them are running around and the other half are sitting down watching you intently. Any sane person in this situation would tell the first half to sit down and they eventually would. Right Now imagine these children do not know ANY English On the first day of school I was greeted by http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Taiwan/Tainan/blog-190804.html Wow...I can't believe that all of my blogs were lost I'm not sure if they have them backed up or not but this makes the case for sending mass emails instead I guess I need to back everything up from now on. http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Taiwan/Tainan/blog-188420.html