Man Man Zou

Every year in Taiwan there is a special religious event called the Matsu Pilgrimage. An effigy of Matsu, Goddess of the Sea, is paraded for 8 days through central Taiwan and many people come out to see or try to touch the shrine as it goes by.
No one really told Mark or I about this [...]

It finally happened. Mark’s poor scooter got wasted outside our apartment the other day. We were sitting in our apartment at night when Yvonne came to tell us that something happened to one of our parked scooters outside. We went down to look and WOW, it was quite the crash scene (of course the guilty [...]

Mark and I spent our weekend, along all the staff and their families from our school, down in the southernmost tip of Taiwan, at a town called Kenting. Kenting (pronounced Gun-ting) is Taiwan’s tropical paradise. It is hot all year round, and attracts endless busloads of tourists every weekend (us unfortunately being one of them).
I [...]

I started writing this post yesterday, but I lost it because a building in our complex caught on fire and we lost our power (and my journal post!). We had no water this morning either, so I had to get ready at school. I’m not sure how big the fire was, but there was a [...]