Since he won’t blog about it, I might as well … I’ve been wanting to listen to Michael talk about his blogging experiences for a while now, but although he’s been giving lectures all over Taiwan I never really got the chance. When he once said that he might consider my proposal of maybe sometime in the far future giving a talk in NCKU, I immediately took that as a yes and suggested to the Taiwanese student clubs that they arrange this with him. And so they did. IEAS took the challenge and so the Taiwanese students and I met Michael at one of NCKU’s classrooms. I posted it on our student council website, but no international students …

Taiwan’s business schools are on a race to get the business school AACSB accreditation. It’s a good goal for the Taiwanese universities to pursue, something on the grounds of - how did some professor put it - business schools ISO. The international students I know that are studying in Taiwan, be that Taipei, Xinzhu, Tainan or Kaohsiung, seem to care about that alot. Taiwan’s international political status isn’t that clear and a degree from Taiwan might be accepted differently in different countries and so many of the students believe …

First time I didn’t think much of it, but now I think there’s something going on. Yes, I sometimes eat at McDonalds. Yes, I made a special effort not to eat at McDonalds before I came to Taiwan. It was a long process of becoming friendlier with this evil fast food chain and now I drop by every once in a while when it’s really late coming back from university and the thought of having fried snacks, ZongZi or Tapinyaki makes me a feel food-tired. There are a few things that are nicer about McDonalds here than back in Israel and one of them is the magazine stand they have on the side of the door which sometimes includes …

I haven’t been around for too long, but I do have the feeling that things are different now than they were when I started paying attention to the English language Asian & Taiwanese blogospheres around 3 years ago, and I have to say - I think there’s something great going on in our tiny Taiwan blogosphere right now. The amount of fascinating articles beautifully decorated with the most amazing photography that I read in our blogosphere daily is almost inconceivable when you consider the number of expats we actually have here in Taiwan. Few are blogging for any expectations of gain or rewards, most are doing an amazing job out of their own passion for what they experience here in …

To make up for what I missed in the first time I’ve been to Kaohsiung and Zuoying (”Touring Kaohsiung’s ZuoYing Lotus Pond - Tiger Dragon Pagoda, Emperor of Dark Heaven, Confucius, and Old City FengShan”) I revisited that area again with John. Parking down next to the Zuo-Ying Lotus Pond we noticed the other side of Koxinga’s Feng-Shan ancient city gates :   We made our way by foot to the lovely Spring and Autumn Pavilion hosting an elaborate display of Daoist paintings I …

Tropical weather usually doesn’t really allow for an authentic autumn-spring look, but, riding around Tainan city the past month I came across a few beautiful autumn-spring spots. Next the Tainan City Council:     And in Dong-Fong road, next to the university (by email):   …