After completing the drive from Tainan through Paolai, Mei Shan and the beautiful mountain road I arrived at the east coast. The valley stretching out from the high mountains of central Taiwan to the mountains of the east coast was absolutely breath taking. The views I’ve seen there were more beautiful than anything I’ve seen [...]
Academic achievements? inspired research? not quite. I see the NCKU news center try to make headlines but even the most impressive discoveries and inventions barely make it to page 3. This international student made it to most of the 8 o’clock news and appeared on Taipei Times front page . Here’s how : A [...]
This scenic coastal cross island road number 20 is absolutely gorgeous. If you have the time, you should definitely take it, preferably very slowly, and see some of Taiwan’s beautiful natural scenery. I did it for a whole day, stopping in amazing spots, hiking a bit, exploring some paths and natural hot-springs. That whole area [...]
A few weeks ago, just before the semester started, I went on a short trip towards Taiwan’s east coast. Following many recommendations I’ve read, I wanted to do that the hard and beautiful way – through the scenic road number 20, going all the way form Tainan in the west to Tai Dong in the [...]
Every once in a while I have an Israeli asking me where that Tainan place is in Taiwan. Although most Israelis shouldn’t have trouble reading an English map, there is the occasional person asking me where Tainan is that isn’t able to read English very well, for example – in my last visit to Israel [...]
A Taiwanese recently pointed out to me that a local Taiwanese show "The World is So Big" (世界那么大) visited Israel a few times this past year, and I was surprised to see just how many episodes they had on Israel. I recognized the Taiwanese translating to Hebrew and English in the Israel shows to be [...]
This is the second part of an introduction lecture about Taiwan’s English language blogs in Taiwan and foreigner perspective about all that’s Taiwanese. First part was “Taiwan’s English Blogosphere – Introducing Expat Bloggers to local Taiwanese”. It looks much better when not embedded, download it here. Pictures in the presentation all lead to the blogs [...]
Today, I gave a one hour lecture to a room full of NCKU Taiwanese students. The topic I was asked to talk about was “Taiwan’s English language Blogosphere”. Following is the presentation I ended up with It looks much better when not embedded, download it here. I gave an overview of some interesting blogs and [...]
