We owe it to each other to tell stories. -Neil Gaiman
This August I had the chance to spend a week in Hanoi with some friends from Canada. Vietnam is somewhere I’ve wanted to go since I was young. Over the years I’ve read books about both it’s recent war history as well as it’s more distant history. I’ve heard lots about it’s rich culture from…
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In my last post I shared with you how I ended up on Tinder, and how I found Tinder to be a strange but ultimately insightful tool with which to look at and assess a culture and it’s values. In that post I shared some brief observations of Budapest and of Langley, the town where…
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I’ve been single since February last year in Budapest, and it’s been fantastic. I can honestly say that I was really excited to be single, for the first time in four years (give or take), and part of the reason was Tinder. Since I’d been in a committed relationship, dating and hookup apps became super…
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Prior to this year I never really had any desire to go to Hong Kong. It wasn’t for any reason in particular, it just didn’t hold my interest. I always just thought of it as a big, busy, cramped city; which of course it is. However, since moving to Taipei I’ve had more of a…
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This past week we had a long weekend here in Taipei and decided to head out of Taiwan for the break. We chose Kuala Lumpur because it was a relatively cheap flight and we figured it was somewhere we could do in a weekend. There are some cities that you can go to for a…
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I’ve written before about being away from home at Christmas. In Turkey, Christmas time was the worst time of year, because I missed my family and I missed Christmas in general. There were no Christmas lights, or markets or reminders of the holiday season anywhere. Even at the school I worked in we couldn’t even…
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It’s been two months since I arrived in Taipei, and I’m sitting here in a coffee shop drinking some of the best coffee I’ve had in years thinking about how glad I am that I made this move.
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Here we are again, and it feels like only yesterday I was starting my job in Budapest, thinking how new everything felt and wondering how long it would take for Budapest to feel like home. Now I’m sitting in my new room in Taipei, wondering the same thing. How long will it take for this…
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Along The Way 