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 …
My journey to Asia began in late 2009. What I’d read about Taiwan hadn’t prepared me for the sights and sounds which were about to assault my senses. I started out in Taipei county before I moved on and spent a year in the ‘Silicon Valley of Taiwan.’
During this …
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 >>
