Zai Jian. The best part about leaving is that I know I will get to come back home in six months and resume my wonderful life, again. I have been blessed with wonderful friends and family, students and colleagues, UUCV, my choir family, doctors, pharmacists, restaurants, theatre, art galleries, dance teachers, schools and everything is surrounded by the beautiful and dramatic landscape of the Cumberland Valley. Carlisle-Shippensburg is a great place to live and work. Saying good-bye is almost a celebration of joy for the happiness and love I feel in my world. I made a great life here and I have every reason to believe that my life in Taiwan will also be great. I leave without anxiety, just total gratitude and joy for all that is to come.
7:57 am departure from Harrisburg to Chicago. Chicago to LA.
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Jiufen and the Girls
For the past two days, I have been in northern Taiwan, in a densely packed medieval town set on the side of a mountain. Jiufen was orginally an isolated town until gold dust was discovered in 1893. The resulting gold rush reached its peak during the Japanese Colonization period. Today many Japanese style inns, teahouses and the gorgeous Gold Ecological Park remain true to the original Japanese aesthetic. During World War II, a POW camp, named Kinlaseki was established for holding Allied soldiers captured in Singapore, including many British soldiers, who were forced to work the mines. The mine was eventually shut down in 1987. The gorgeous mountains and breathtaking views of the ocean can be seen from hundreds of viewpoints throughout the area.
I traveled to Jiufen with six graduate students, all charming young women and Dr. Chiu-Jhen Chen, their professor.
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I hope you have a fantastic journey and Im sure we will be in contact. Have fun!
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