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，在台灣的台中巿教英文並在附近的一間大學學中文。我希望藉由這個網站，能幫我紀錄所有的經驗，並且練習中文。
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I Can Read This, and It's Funny
This is the first humorous Chinese that I've been able to read and understand. It's the name of a scooter shop, presumably. Literally translated, it means 'very scooter'. In Taiwan though, 'scooter' also has the informal meaning of 'irritating', meaning that this sign also means 'extremely annoying'. Clever name for a shop.
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Exploring Taichung
Yesterday afternoon, to celebrate the fact that I now have wheels (image 2), and to make me feel better about being broke because of it, I took a 100 km or so ride around Taichung. Destination 1 (image 1) was Metropolitan Park, a huge (by Taiwanese standards) recreational area on the western edge of the city, where I managed to get a view of a suprisingly good sunset.
Stop 2, much further North, was Taichung Airport (I didn't even know Taichung had one), a small but neat looking port that looks more like a train station than an airport.
By this time, darkness was setting in, so I took the long drive South East back into urban Taichung, where I stopped to take a look at the newly (for me at least) constructed, and I think pretty impressive park in the smarter central western side of the city (last 2 images).
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It's Great to be Back in Taichung...
I lived in the city of Taichung from 2004 until late 2006, so I'm intimately familiar with the place and have a lot of friends here still. That being the case, I decided to pay it a visit this weekend, and so far I've had an excellent time, speeding around the city on a friend's scooter.
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