Last weekend I went to a Taiwanese baseball game– the Brothers versus the Rhinos.  Even though their team names sound kind of corny, Taiwan is actually very good at baseball.  Between the two teams, there were players from the Blue Jays, the Dodgers, the Red Sox, and the Mariners.  And to think my ticket was only … Continue reading →

During our 10-days of training, which included lots of acting like 8-year olds for the sake of replicating a classroom setting, we also got to do a little bit of sight-seeing.  We stopped by the National Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall, where we got to see the changing of the guard.  The whole ceremony lasted about 15 … Continue reading →

Sorry for the fortnight of radio silence.  (I actually had an appropriate scenario to use the word “fortnight” … that was at least 15 years in the making.) Training was long and intense– nine hours of lectures and little-kid songs every day for 10 days straight was exhausting and all I really felt like doing was … Continue reading →