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As I may have mentioned here before (with a slight tinge of bitterness) holiday time here is something non-existent. Last night I Skyped a friend who’s been living and teaching in Beijing since last May. It was our first time…
Continue readingToday a woman stopped me in the street on my way out of the metro, as I was trying to cross the road to get to my apartment, and food. “Do you know how to be happy?” she asked, smiling…
Continue readingMy flat in Taipei doesn’t have heating. It’s COLD. I could buy a heater, but I’m not really at home enough to justify the expense. Three weeks ago it was still beautiful weather, and so a friend and decided to go…
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This morning I was tutoring one of my lovely private students, a 40 something year old woman called May who has an irrepressible sense of fun, and appalling English grammar that she refuses to work on. For some reason, we…
Continue readingTeaching day in, day out, can get pretty tiring. So something I’ve started doing at the end of each day is taking time to remember my favourite moments. I’m nowhere near diligent enough about doing this, as sometimes the last…
Continue readingWhen I researched moving to Taiwan, I read a lot of really great things that got me excited. I’m not about to burst that bubble; on the whole, life here is pretty good. But here are the things I wish…
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I’ve been in Taiwan for nearly 6 months now, and I’ve realised there are certain things that I can always rely on Taiwan (specifically Taipei) to provide that make it different to any other city I’ve lived in. 1. At…
Continue readingBecause I’m making it one of my Taiwan goals not to acquire possessions, I only allow myself to buy one book a month, and only then if I’ve finished my previous books. The suitcases of unread books I had to…
Continue readingBefore I left the UK, I stocked up on bras. “Don’t bra shop in Asia!” the internet warned. “Nothing will fit you, ever, and it will all look weird” the bloggers cried, the warnings especially dire for ladies who are at all…
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I’ve hit the three month stage in Taiwan, and it is, therefore, time for me to pull my head out of the tizzy it’s been in and catch up on the backlog of things I’ve been wanting to blog about……
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