Yes! I made it! To all 104 MRT stations in Taipei (shhh, pretend I don’t know about the new Danshui line that just opened before I left…)! I am writing you from the good old state of Minnesota, and since at the time of beginning this article draft I am stuck home in the middle … More MRT Stations Left: 0 (Or, How the West was Won)
Today, nothing is closed, people are still working on building houses, running banks, passing on through life without a pause, but a child was born, A son was given, and the government is on His shoulders. People call him Wonderful, and Counselor, Almighty God, and Prince of Peace. I wish Taiwan could know their prince … More A Taiwanese Merry Christmas to You!
Goal: visit all MRT stations before I leave Taiwan. Time left: about 100 days (minus a few while I visit Myanmar on a visa run) Stations visited: 40 Stations left: ….. 64 haha Here are some of the highlights from the past couple months of collecting stamps! Travel Log Longshan Temple and Xiangshan Stations … More The MRT Adventure Continues! Stations visited: 40
Not trying to one- up you or anything, but I just got to miss work because of a typhoon day… No, really it is not that strange. You get blizzards in the winter there and I get giant typhoons (hurricanes that spin the other direction) in the summer here. It started many days ago somewhere … More Okay, You’ve Had a Snow Day, but How About a Typhoon Day??
I decided to revive an old resolution to go to every Metro station (MRT) in Taipei before I leave Taiwan early next year– so, here we go, countdown of 6 months! I love to explore because I know God has so many fun opportunities for us in places we have never been before. As a … More The Treasure Hunt Continues!
This morning I decided to revive an old resolution to travel to every Metro (MRT) station in Taipei City before I leave Taiwan, so I grabbed my umbrella and helmet and the short break from school and left the house at 7:20 AM for an adventure. Travel Log: 7:23- left the house- sprinkling, biked Ubike … More The Last Station (or the first) At the End
Sometimes God brings you into a season, a noticeable pattern of life, and changes the way you look at things for a time. That season now, for me, is called 1 Corinthians 13:13. A lovely little verse we skip over to when Paul starts telling us about “adulting” because we want to hear the end … More Faith, Hope, and Love and Chinese Tests
One of the most likely places to get embarrassed for me is the grocery store. I still don’t have it all down. I just recently went to a supermarket and attempted to use my rewards card that I had gotten myself a few weeks before. I waited patiently in line, and thought since I had … More Embarrassing Moments Happen to Us All… and Points for Prayer for Aroma
School’s out! No work! Time to party! This week has been a week of national celebration as the Lunar calendar turns its pages and starts again. The springtime is also coming along, albeit slowly, but as the saying goes, “Springtime is like a stepmother’s face.” … In other words, one minute the sky looks blue … More Happy Chinese New Year! 新年快樂!
So you may or may not have heard that there was a 6.0 (I think Richter scale) earthquake on Tuesday that tilted a giant hotel and an apartment building over, leaving 7 dead and around 60 missing… Well, that is true. It happened in the city of Hualien, which is on the east coast of … More Earthquakes Happen Here
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