Jezebel

Perusing the blogosphere, stumbled upon this: Jezebel’s Western/Asian fetishes While it barely scratches the surface, I’ve seen evidence over and over of this exact scenario here. I would confidently say 85% of Western men here have/are interested in Asian girls. Its interesting in bars to walk up to a guy with Tina and instantly see [...]

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A culture of clothing.

So the past few weeks I’ve been scoffing at the fact that people keep complaining about how cold it is. The temperature outside rarely dips below 60, often resting at a cool 70 or 65. However, after a couple days of misting rain, I’m starting to admit that 60 degrees combined with wet, perpetual wind….is [...]

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Dinner in Yingge

Tina’s “grandparents” flew in from China to visit. They’re part of some other part of the family. I have officially quit keeping track of things since half of the people are just family friends referred to as “aunt and uncle”. We met up with Jim who picked up the entire family in the car, and [...]

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The business.

Since today all we did was go to one interview for Tina and I sat in Starbucks and colored in my journal, we’re going to skip ahead to a more general topic. One, which is gross, yet, fascinating, and ever present. Squatty-toilets. As I refer to them. When I was in French squat toilets were [...]

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Here! Here…hey I’m here…Here.

Taipei, It feels like I’ve been here a thousand years yet not at all. Really I haven’t had consistent sleep since I left Wednesday afternoon, however it is now Friday night. I’m a bit frazzled. But heading back way back… Wednesday. Me and Tina flew to L.A. We played scrabble and cards most of the [...]

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