Well, I dont exactly feel justified posting music related entries in my Taiwan blog, so they're going here ( Read more... )

OMG!!!!!
THE NEW DECEMBERISTS ALBUM IS AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HOORAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

bloggies, eh? yup, guess it's bloggies time. Sitting in Golden, next to the dog who inexplicably smells like wet dog. More like explicably. Cuz he's wet. Back from Maine of Doom, where there was much in the vein of swimming in the lake, kayaking on the lake, canoeing on the lake, snorkeling in the lake. you get the picture - I was living next to a ( Read more... )

Public service announcement: in the future, the majority of my blogging will be done in my Taiwan travel blog: taiwanforthewin.blogspot.com. I'll probably occasionally post to this blog, since various people like my grandma will be reading the Taiwan blog, and I kinda have to watch what I say ( Read more... )

so a new goal of this blog is to somewhat transform it into an anthropological field journal. During my time in Taiwan, my goals are two-fold: Improve my Chinese, and gain enough understanding of Taiwanese / Chinese culture to write an anthropology honors thesis based on my research. Improving my Chinese will be really easy to motivate myself for: ( Read more... )

I found out yesterday that the last remaining bit of uncertainty regarding whether I can go to Taiwan or not has resolved itself. I called up the university in Taiwan, and was told that an admission letter was going to be faxed the next day. what this means is that the scholarship is basically green lighted. Over the past few days the reality of ( Read more... )

So I'm writing this entry from my brand spanking new macbook laptop. I have been desperately wanting a mac for the last two years. and now after long last i have it. I got it so i can have a computer while I travel. Buying that desktop right before I went to england was a big mistake, and ended up being one of the biggest hassles in my move too and ( Read more... )

in case anyone cares, I'm gonna be in Taiwan for the next year, starting in mid-august. I got a scholarship to pay for my studies and living expenses there. It's a good thing.

dammit dammit dammit dammit dammit dammit dammit dammit dammit

So on wednesday I got an email from the Taiwan Ministry of Education office in Houston, TX. I've have been chosen to recieve a scholarship to spend a year studying Chinese in Taiwan. I'm gonna take it. The prospect is really exciting, and I've started really looking forward to it. Now, what I have to look forward to is lots of logistics: getting my ( Read more... )