Forgive me father, for I have sinned. It has been over one semester since I last touched Chinese and over a year since I last had a decent Chinese class (no, Chinese classes in Israel don’t count). Honest to god, I can hardly manage anything in Chinese. I know that I know things, I can [...]
Foreigners living in Taiwan love to joke about the mess Taiwan has with how to romanize Chinese. Travel guides make jokes about how a single street in Taiwan can offer three completely different looking names, from the three different methods used to romanize Chinese. While I was in Bangkok, trying to adjust to the fact [...]
It’s an extraordinary sensation. I think I remember that feeling from 6th grade time at the states and how excited I was when I realized what was going on and how fast it happening.
Walking the streets of Taipei I’ve gotten used to isolation. I’m on one side and all the other people on the other [...]
