Daniel W. posted an article on Taiwanese Dream - Sep 28, 2009, 7:15 pm
After taking Chinese lessons for 10 months here in Taiwan, I was finally able to sit down and write a short story about my day in Chinese.  To the average Chinese reader, the story is not much, but t...
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Daniel W. posted an article on Taiwanese Dream - Aug 25, 2009, 7:11 pm
Stink Bug “众所周知，太阳东升西落。” Everyone knows the sun rises in the east and sets in the west. It’s one of those universal truths I thought I could take for granted, so much t...
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Daniel W. posted an article on Taiwanese Dream - Aug 25, 2009, 7:06 pm
Green Guard Some say she drowned in a river. Other say she walked off into the misty mountains at the young age of 28 and disappeared forever. Whatever the case, her father’s body had been lost...
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Daniel W. posted an article on Taiwanese Dream - Aug 9, 2009, 12:42 am
This year on Christmas morning I went to my Chinese lessons.  We didn’t sing any Christmas carols, but as it so happened, arrived on a page in the textbook where the teacher needed to teach me how ...
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Daniel W. posted an article on Taiwanese Dream - Jul 28, 2009, 7:36 pm
In the summer of 2001, I quit my job and went north to ride my bicycle across Alaska.  What does that have to do with Taiwan, you ask?  When I got home, after riding over 1,200 miles and seeing the ...
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Daniel W. posted an article on Taiwanese Dream - Jul 23, 2009, 7:33 pm
Fried Dumplings I was getting hungry and needed to explore my Chinese in order to grab something to eat.  Diane was at work and I’d had a busy morning, so finding something edible for lunch was up...
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Daniel W. posted an article on Taiwanese Dream - Jul 19, 2009, 9:04 am
River Trails She sprinted past the tombs on her bicycle, fearful that some ghostly apparition might spring up and sweep us away to another world.  I raced around the bend in the river, just ahead of...
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