Today was an action packed day up at 5am as usual to do my exercises and stuff around on the Internet. I then headed to Rebecca's School to have a look around, meet her colleagues, meet some students and see how the education system works here. The first thing I noticed was the abundance of amenities - 10 basketball courts, tennis courts, squash courts, running tracks, swimming pools and climbing walls you name it they have it. The next thing I noticed kids sweep...

Today I decided to take it fairly easy and just have a bit of a wonder around the area where I was staying (just outside of city). I walked around and observed: many many old people (90+) walking around, absolutely no rubbish, no graffiti, no kids wagging school - the whole system in Taiwan is incredible in that it is structured in such a way to encourage a strong and united society. You get the feeling everyone acts for not only the good of themselves but the go...

Today I was up early waved goodbye to my two amazing hosts - Grace and Ellen. I headed into the city on the bus and into Main Station and that's where things started to get interesting. Firstly the train and bus station are linked and absolutely ginormous and to add to that there is very little signs in English - I wondered around lost asking random people and finally found the bus station. The infrastructure here is the best I have ever seen anywhere in the worl...