but between musical garbage trucks, loudspeakers on bakery trucks (I wish the guy would roll buns), Daytona drivers, night markets, gossips, and radios, it is anything but quiet.
The Land Where It’s Already Tomorrow, Chapter 38: Creature of Habit, National Health, A Challenge, Tomb-Sweeping, New Digs March 20th 2007 Anyone plotting to assassinate me (maybe one or two of my students for all I know) would have an easy time of it. I have become a real creature of habit. I’m up at 0500, out the door at 0520, in 7-11 to buy my orange juice and coffee at 0530, on the train at 0545, and rolling at 0600. I’m at the same breakfast place in Guangfu (at the same table) at 0705, and at school at 0730. My contract ... read more
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