Christmas - halfway around the world

Asia » Taiwan
December 24th 2010

Published: December 29th 2010

Christmas Eve and Christmas Day - halfway around the world The weather is beautiful, no rain, no humidity. Doesn’t seem much like Christmas here in Taiwan, but what does one expect in a Buddhist country? Christmas Eve we set out by ferry for Cinjin, a long narrow island that forms a natural breakwater to protect Kaohsiung harbor. This small island has a 300 year told temple devoted to Matsu,... Read Full Entry

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Mel with Church member

Nativity Scene

High School kids who were doing a project to honor Taiwan

It's crazy, but 2010 is year 99 in Taiwan. In 1911 Sun Yat-sen was the first president so Taiwan will be 100 years old in 2011. These students were having people pose with their sign as part of an art project

Woman and her husband- owners of the flower shop

We took flowers to Yu Yen (Alexa's Taiwanese mom) for Christmas

Marco and Webber's girlfriend Mickie

Taiwanese take pictures holding their hands in a peace sign. Alexa once asked why and was told "what else would we do with our hands"? Hmmm

Yu Yen and the bracelet we gave her

Webber - he likes basketball

Marco loves sour skittles

Mickie and Webber

Something else to do with one's hands other than the peace sign...

Veggie hot pot

Not typical Christmas dinner, but this isn't Kansas

seafood hot pot

7-11 is on every corner in Taiwan

and you can buy just about everything at 7-11

7-11 Are they open or closed on Christmas?

Turns out these are the little doll-like figures 7-11 uses for everything in Taiwan. On the left is Lock and on the right is Open - has nothing to do with store hours.