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.
*Sunset photo courtesy of peasap, Flickr Creative Commons
When you step off into the great unknown and leave life as you know it behind, some funny things happen. For awhile, your new …
I’ve come to realize…no matter where one traipses off to on this planet, things are not so different from place to place in the end. In light of this, I’ve made a series of comparisons with snapshots from my life in Chicago, and my life in Taiwan. Let’s take a …
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 >>
