Taiwan Time

Visitors from Home
Jeff and Karen Neisler, friends from Samaritan House (our home church in Rogers) came to visit. The weather was windy and cool; they got to see a lot of the Taitung area. Here we are eating at a breakfast shop.

Ruthie and Karen take a break from riding, on Green Island.

Like me, Jeff loves [...]

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Ruthie is rehearsing with the Bible Study group.

This is some of our Bible study group. They are getting ready to sing Christmas Carols at a city event attended by hundreds of people.

Singing on stage

Our Church
Ruthie is entering from the street. There are several Christian churches in Taitung.

These are many of the church [...]

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Here are some more photos of our school, Ren Ai Elementary. On Monday mornings, we have a flag raising ceremony.  Taiwan has long lived in fear of an invasion from mainland China.  

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 All students have to clean the school in the mornings.
 
Drum practice  

 Some beginners practice on their instruments.
 
 Some 5th & 6th grade students.  The girl in [...]

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Greetings from Taiwan! 
We have been here for over 5 weeks and are getting used to things.  We spent about 10 days in orientation in Taipei
County.  This included various talks on culture, schools, language introduction field trips and even a Tai-chi lesson.  We certainly learned a lot in such a few days.   This lady’s language(Mandarin) [...]

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Hello; we are the Grandersons.   We are going to Taiwan to teach English in an elementary school in Taitung.
I, Irving, and my lovely wife, Ruthie, have  taught 35 and 30 years respectively.  This includes four years together in the Peace Corps teaching in Ghana,  Africa.
We have been teaching in the Rogers School District for the last [...]

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