Dear MeiGui; Not only are my local colleagues making my experience as an English school teacher a misery, but so are the other foreign teachers. I’ve only been here for three months, and already want to go back to Vancouver. It all started at a “getting-to-know-you” party in October. I
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Covering issues of cultural differences including personal experiences and linguistic issues.
When Love is in the Air… in China
The remnants of a typhoon piddled on Qingdao last night, whetting the thirsts of the flowers, trees and citizens, tantalizingly dewy but nowhere near wet enough to slake the dry. So as the sere winds blow in off the Bao Hai Sea, the collective consciousness begins to fret and fray
Read morePeople Mountain, People Sea… of Cars
By Jonathan Chandler Exclusive to The Wild East September is here, and with it the teeming masses have left the beach — drunk down all the Tsingtao beer during the two-week Beer Festival — and returned to the provinces to take their dearly beloved one child per family back to
Read moreDear Rosanne: My wife won't let me see my girlfriend
Originally published in The China Post (but not online). Read more of Rosanne’s witty and hilarious columns for the culturally discombobulated on her new website: rosannelin.com Dear MeiGui; Finding spicy girls for me is no problem. Actually, right now I have a really hot small wife. She’s an American with
Read moreScott Sommers enlightening the blogosphere
Google Scott Sommers, and you’ll get over 2.2 million responses. Why? His blog covers a litany of subjects affecting both Taiwanese and foreign teachers, from job-search strategies, to education policy.
Read more'One Thing I'd Change About Taiwan'
Kyle Sveinson, 28, is from Winnipeg, Canada. He teaches English for a living, and is the producer and a member of the hip-hop crew THC.
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CHRIS: I would change the television. The TV here is atrocious. There’s nothing to stimulate people; it doesn’t have anything to offer the viewer.
Read moreParty of The Year: Review of The Wild East Show @ The Beat Studio, Taipei
Review Of The Wild East Art Show Staff Reporter, Wildeast.net This review focuses on the WiLd EaSt Art Opening, Jan. 19th, although the exhibition runs for 3 weeks, by appointment: (02) 2765-9470 SAT/SUN, FEB. 2-3: LAST WEEKEND PRIVATE VIEWING OF ALL THE WORKS AT ‘THE WILD EAST ART SHOW.’ Sat.
Read moreWild East Meets West in Taipei Artists’ Show
There’s a motion, there’s a move, a trend.
But what’s the chord? Where’s the heart?
Saturday night is opening night for “The Wild East” art show, in which twenty-four local artists have come together to show work inspired by the theme of “celebrating the clash between East and West civilizations,” as organizers put it.