Photolog Update: Lantern Festival
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Silly Chinese Presentation    Today was the last day of the semester. Every Friday we have to give a short speech slash presentation that uses the new vocabulary and grammar from the chapter. I usually just figure out what I am going to say a few minutes before class and wing it, but since it was the last day, I actually wrote it all out the ( Read more... )

I Heart Languages with Alphabets    Justin has made his return to Taiwan, and with him he brought me an Afrikaans dictionary, and a "Teach Yourself" Afrikaans book for me. For those of you not in the know, he is South African and speaks Afrikaans. Being the language geeks we are, I decided I wanted to learn Afrikaans even though it is only spoken ( Read more... )

Happy New Year!    Today, well I guess yesterday now, was New Years Eve. Everything for the past few days has been slowly closing down, and today basically nothing was open. Everyone and their brother either has, or will be traveling somewhere soon. Those who are not slash have not traveled yet are here in Taipei and taking part of the most ( Read more... )

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The Stats
    Every now and then I check the usage statistics for my website. Here we go...
    These are all from the month of January:

CountryHits
US-8020
Taiwan-4380
Canada-2481
The Netherlands-2249
Switzerland-740
Costa Rica-634
Finland-504
United Kingdom-423
Japan-398
Australia-340
Ireland-312
Hungary-300
Norway-296
South Africa-230    Here ( Read more... )

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Getting There     I woke up at 5:30 in the morning, got breakfast at 7-11, and then took a cab to the airport bus station. Luckily, right as I walked into the station there was a bus just about to leave, so I didn’t have to wait at all. The flight was only about an hour. It felt like nothing at all compared to all the other flights I’ve been ( Read more... )

The North Pole    This morning, my friend David called me up and asked if I wanted to go on a little day hike with him. Seeing as I had nothing better to do than homework, I said yes. We met at the MRT (subway) station near our places, and took it almost as far north as it would go. From there, we hopped a bus that took us north through the ( Read more... )

Firey Photolog Update
    Orange Cafe Fire Show ( eighteen pictures ) - View
        There is a show of amateur fire spinners at "Orange Cafe" every Friday night. I decided for my guest's last night in Taiwan, we should go there.
        Click here to see a video of two of the performers. ( 3.13 MB )

Japan    Okay. This is going to be sort of ( Read more... )