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Continue reading →: Taiwan Day 9: 貓空 Gondolas !Today was unfortunately our last day :sadface: Thus I decided to walk around some local parks before we needed to head out of our Airbnb in the morning: This is from one of the vista points of a local park: A photo of a cat who was meowing very loudly…
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Continue reading →: Taiwan 2024 Day 8: 九份老街 and 東門Today was an earlier start ! We headed out of the Airbnb around 8:00 to get an Uber to 松山 train station, which would allow us to get onto an express train to 瑞芳, the closest train station to 九份. There is another 10-15 minute bus raid from the 瑞芳…
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Continue reading →: Taiwan 2024 Day 7: Lin Family meal & Lin Family Mansion and GardenI slept in quite a bit today, and then Jacob and I went to meet up with my dad’s side of the family ! Since many people had differing dietary needs, my aunt selected a buffet for everyone to meet. Since I woke up late, I had to call for…
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Continue reading →: Taiwan 2024 Day 6 – health check up, big earthquake, and Raohe night marketNow for the real purpose of my trip: a comprehensive health check up ! My mother used to have my sister and I do these almost every time we came to Taiwan, so I decided to sign up for one myself. It costs around $735 USD to see an audiologist,…
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Continue reading →: Taiwan 2024 Day 4For breakfast this morning, we decided to buy some breakfast ingredients at the local store – eggs and sausages. I still got some man tou though – there’s a local place that sells vegetarian ones ! So I got a green onion one and a red bean paste one –…
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Continue reading →: Taiwan 2024 Day 3The day started off rainy – with lightning and thunderstorms ! The beautiful thing about rain is that it brings out the contrast of all the colors everywhere: Oh also a random thing is that I got sunflowers for our Airbnb yesterday! For some reason, so many people had flowers…
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Continue reading →: Taiwan Day 2As today was a bit of a rainier and cooler day, we decided to go somewhere where we could be inside – hence, Taipei 101 ! We started the day off by going to a local breakfast shop. I ordered soymilk, carrot cake, friend onion pancakes with egg, and a…
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Continue reading →: Taiwan 2024 day 1Hello all ! This is the first time I’ve visited Taiwan since my mother’s passing. I wanted to come here to do a medical exam as these are so much cheaper to do in this country compared to the US, but also come and be in my heritage country for…
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Continue reading →: Getting to know myself – prompt 8Today’s prompt from Onsite is “How would you honestly describe your likelihood of falling into the trap of denial? Have there been instances where you can see with hindsight that you were in this trap? What can you do to avoid it in the future?” As you can see, these…
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Continue reading →: These are the days of … 3/13/2024^…Realizing that love is still the most powerful and prominent theme of our stories. (Faculty shared stories in which they helped students succeed, mostly academically and professionally. However, 2 faculty members shared how they helped a certain number of their students with their crushes and how those students eventually got…
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