Things I want to share. Mainly via my iPhone.
Hello, my name is Roger Gordon. This is my website. I'll put things I make with my iPhone here.
I'm from South Africa, and I teach English in Taichung City, Taiwan in order to study Chinese at a nearby University. I hope this website will help me to remember experiences and practice my Chinese.
您好，我的名字是高延清。這裡是我的網站。這裡要放用iPhone自己作的東西。我從南非來，教英文在台灣的台中巿所以能學中文在一個附近的大學。我希望這個網站會幫我記得經驗還有練習中文。
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Tea Tasting Ceremony
I was lucky enough to attend a free traditional Chinese tea tasting ceremony today. 4 other foreigners and I spent the afternoon trying to taste the subtle flavours of a partially oxidized tea repotedly named "Oriental Beauty" by the queen of England (who must have taken quite a liking to it) when she first tasted it. This uniquely Taiwanese variety of tea gets its slightly sweet flavour from the saliva of an insect which eats the leaves. I guess it's best not to think too much about drinking bug spit, and just accept it for what it is. Actually it has quite a pleasant flavour, and would make a great uniquely Taiwanese gift for someone who is into their tea.
In the photos:The tea teacher at work, the uncultured foreigners getting a lesson, a variety of common Chinese teas (each with a different colour due to differing levels of oxidation) and dessert- a dried persimmon, stuffed with a sweet red bean and chestnut paste.
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Peng Hu Field Trip with Dong Hai University
Finally, a week late, here are some pictures from my university-subsidised trip to the Islands of Peng Hu, west of Taichung city. It was a pretty good trip, but unfortunately was only 48 hours long, and the budget nature of the excursion meant that we took rather tedious modes of transport (bus to the southern port city of Kaohsioung and then ferry) to and from the islands. This meant travelling times of 7 hours each way. This wasn't necessarily a bad thing though, and I enjoyed getting to know some people from my Chinese language centre whom I otherwise wouldn't have had an opportunity to spend time with.
In the photos:1. The deep blue ocean
2. A classmate with her awesome reflective shades on the deck of the ferry
3.Catching a tan on the deck
4. Watching scenery go by during a bus tour of the island
5.An entrance to a bridge that is famous for some reason
6. On the way to some scenery
7. A native cactus fruit remarkably similar in external appearance to a South African prickly pear
8. Mike, checking out the view
9. Some decent scenery (finally!)
10. "It's a bird, it's a plane..."
11. The old town of Peng Hu, nicely preserved for tourists.
12. A section of a wall, showing how the bottom half is made from stones, while the top is built with pieces of dead coral.
13. The entrance to a 500-year-old temple covered with an unbelievably big Banyan tree.
14 - 16. Some other random images of the temple
17. Our Ferry
18 - 19. Some social pictures on the ferry ride home.
Posted from Taiwan, 白沙鄉, Taiwan and 1 more locations
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My Fish Tank is Improving...
Got me another light for my fish tank, and I reckon it looks so much better now.
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Leofoo Village Theme Park
Spent the day today with collegues at a theme park/zoo near the city of Hsinchu, about 2.5 hours North of Taichung. It was pretty good fun, but the combination of adrenaline, excessive heat, and a late night didn't make me feel fantastic.
Attached you'll see the Arabian-themed entrance, a circular roller-coaster-ish thing called the 'Ring of Fire', another really nasty ride which literally just drops you from a height of about 20 metres, two Bengal Tigers checking each other out in the carnivore section of the zoo, and a final image containing baboons, and the already mentioned Arabian-themed buildings in the background.
Posted from Guansi Township, Taiwan
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Small Creatures, Small Camera
On a recent hike in Dakeng scenic area, some little creatures were kind enough to let me get close and take their pictures, with my cell phone.
Posted from Beitun District, Taiwan
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