Alex looks back on the year. Also, working culture in Taiwan.

[islandgorilla]

As I type this, in the last dying minutes of 2011, it's time for me to take stock of my achievements and my shortcomings. It's been a busy year in some ways, and not at all in others. For the first time, I've had a full-time job on at least a semi-permanent basis. While this was novel in some ways, and the chance to establish and develop a rapport

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[swarmingness]

Best of luck!

"The shiny letters and the credentials they represent are nice, but the end goal is for me to be a better writer and for Mr BBC or whoever to recognise that through the quality of my work, and not what my CV says I done"

Very true - now that I have those shiny letters myself I realise that they have a very limited value in themselves, but the very specific skills I learned are dead useful *if* appropriately employed.

Oh, and keep writing about your experiences if you can, I really enjoy your journal
:)

Too right...

[ext_165766]

Currently suffering from pneumonia because parents don't realise that sending your kid into a school while carrying said disease is a bad idea. They're preparing their offspring for a life of denying all illness and pretending flimsy little facemasks offer the ultimate protection against any germs.

Not only that but when I called my school today to tell them I definitely wouldn't be in (yeah, they expect me to work) I couldn't do anything because the person on the other end of the phone didn't speak English. At an English school. She couldn't understand my rasped Chinese either. Fail.