NI HAO TAIWAN
Taiwan is on. The New Zealand doors have been closed so we are heading to the Asian jungle. I have been reading comments on living in Taiwan on a few forums. A lot of the comments are negative - about racism and corruption mostly. The main thing is that the local guys get angry with the foreign white guys dating the local girls. This may cause some problems for Joyce and me, as Joyce is an Asian Kiwi and could be mistaken for a local. That is, until they try to talk to her.Anyway, most of the people who make these comments are 21-year-old American guys who seem to want to bring their life ways to Taiwan. And to rely on forum comments is about is about as daft as relying on Fox News. Every country, race and religion has good and bad people. I intend to take the opportunity learn as much as I can and collect some cool stories along the way.
We have done our medical exams and x-rays. We will be doing blood tests tomorrow to confirm we don’t have syphilis or HIV. We need to do a criminal records check and have our degrees sighted by the Taiwan Embassy. We need to get 18 passport photos, buy our tickets, say good bye to everyone, move out of our place, sell or store our stuff, save some money, pack our bags and fly away, all by November 10.
We will spend a week in Sydney with family before we land in Taipei. We will train in Taipei for ten days before we head to Kaohsiung city, a harbor city in southern Taiwan. All i know is that Kaohsiung is very hot with lots of sea food.
Who knows how it will go. If it's terrible, we jump on a plane and fly home.
Easy.
