I’m writing from the Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport (again.) One year ago (almost to this day) I was standing at the Schiphol airport in Amsterdam at the boarding gate. My first signs of dread only appeared when I saw my fellow passengers toting Aritzia carry-on bags and heard the sounds of native English swirling around [...]
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It’s been a while, I know. I come bearing no quirky cultural encounters but with a life update, so please indulge me. It’s been hard to update because sometime within the past month and a half, I’ve carved out a little life here in Taipei. It’s not quite exchange but maybe only [...]
Last night I witnessed a comedy, like in three-acts Shakespearean sense. Since I got here there have been posters and pamphlets all over Taipei promoting Canada D’eh. The literature explained it as a celebration of Canadian confederation held on a beach in Danshui on June 27 featuring a performance by Grammy-nominated artist [...]
Every day a barrage of unfamiliar sounds parades through Taipei’s streets. There are the scooters that putter through the streets and into the city’s many lanes and alleys. There is the old man who mumbles sweet-monotone nothings into a bullhorn while driving a loud vehicle, every morning around 9 a.m. And then [...] |
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