I’ll never forget the day I told a Taiwanese cab driver I wanted to “eat” Jhubei (a city on the west coast of Taiwan) instead of saying “I want to go to Jhubei.”
She laughed, corrected my Chinese and mumbled something about how I was an American, excusing my mistake.
My Taiwanese-American friend and I had a joke that I was becoming more Asian than him due to my living in 
Taiwan. While I battled language barriers, played teacher to adorable but possibly terrified students, maneuvered …
Some months ago, I discovered how it felt to drive a scooter alone on a snaking mountain road over 10,000 ft high. At one point I became disoriented and panicky as the way ahead climbed higher and higher; yet I knew …
Rhonda Mix is a freelance writer and photographer currently living in Taiwan. When she's not teaching ESL, working on her next story idea, or trying to avoid being mauled by Read More >>
