481 Days in 臺灣

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July 26th 2010

Published: August 14th 2010

And Only 37 To Go!! This blog is a large conglomeration of photos we never got around to posting this past year. Read the photo titles and captions for the entertaining saga known as Claire and Brian's Stupendously Spectacular Taiwanese Travel Adventure Extravaganza. We did a lot of things in Taiwan-including work!! We came here as ESL teachers, but by the beginning of 2010, we had figured out ... Read Full Entry

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Claire and Brian

CEBandBA

We are Claire and Brian. We are awesome. If you know us, a small piece of your heart is forever content. If you do not, there is a yearning deep inside you that will be one day be abated should you be lucky enough to know us. Anyways, we have been living abroad and teaching English for about fourteen months now (as of June 09). We started in Thailand. Now we are in Taiwan. Read about it if you'd like. We've been lucky with our jobs and the great people we have met along the way. We've had some opportunities to travel. We usually get a blog or two up about our travels. We'll be in Taiwan for... full info

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A display at the lantern fest

Different temples pay for an put on these displays

Another Temple Display

The Lantern Festival is held about a week or two after Chinese new year (usually mid to late Feb)

I don't know

but it was pretty cool. This was at the park for the lantern festival. I thought they might be crazy enough to burn it at the end. They were not.

Fireworks

We lived a minutes walk from the lantern festival. They had fireworks twice a night for nine days. This was from our roof.

Fireworks 2

Elephant Class

These kids came in as 3 year olds with no english. Claire has done a great job teaching them. They're kinda cute too.

Alishan Mountain Tea Fields

Taiwan has really good Oolong tea grown in the mountains. This was a beautiful spot that Marvis took us too.

Frogs

Until now, probably my most favorite picture I've ever taken

Claire and the tea

She was vandalizing the tea fields

don't worry, I got her out of there before she did too much damage to this year's crop

Random Temple in Chiayi

There are temples everywhere (mostly Taoist)

Winnie's Baby Shower

This was at our school. Winnie is the pregnant one

The Waterfall

40 minutes and 1000 stairs down from our door is this waterfall. It's a cool spot. The 1000 stairs back up is a bit annoying but it only takes about 20 minutes.

National Palace Museum - Taipei

The first time we went to Taipei we took one picture. Here it is.

Kenting

Eric doing a flip off the rock

Kenting again

Shao bing

A delicious clay over roll with a fried egg inside. This shop is a one minute walk from the apartment. This was Kristina's last visit there before heading back to Canada

Tainan Baseball Game

The Taiwanese love baseball. Unfortunately, a gambling scandal in 99' brought down a ton of teams and the popularity of the sport. There are only four pro teams left in the Taiwan league. They play all the time though, and the Taiwanese love MLB.

It's a long way down

After the terrible typhoon in August 09', the mountain roads were really trashed. I found this on a scooter drive. This was marked off with a few orange cones. Personal responsibility is relied upon far more in Asia than in the U.S. PAY ATTENTION!! You never know when there going to be a giant hole in the road!!

Abandoned mountain road.

This was awesome. There was a huge section of mountain road that was re-routed. This part has been left to crumble. It was like being in a movie

Sun Moon Lake

Big, big temple

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