So, some things to tidy up around here.
1) Next year - It is official that we are staying another year, but moving to another city. Back to the city we lived in last time - the first time - we were here. Better employment opportunities, better pedagogical development and a link to a University that is simply marvelous. We will be in the midst of packing, moving and re-establishing ourselves in a new place hopefully very soon.
2) Seasons - Summer is here, somewhat. Sunny days, +30 temperatures and the sure signs of the hot season at the market. Mangoes! The mangoes are here, the pineapples are here and the peaches are here. Summer fruit. The seasonality of both the fruit and the vegetables that we have access to adds a simple, yet pronounced, flavour to life out here. Now that the fruit markets are populated by the summer fruit, it can be our proxy of the weather to come. Get ready for more mentions of sweat, unbearable heat and unberable heat that is unbearable!
3) New blog is in the works. Not like this, not for travel stories or cultural explanations, but for biodiversity. It is the beauty of Taiwan that drove us to it. We are amassing all our biological pictures and organizing them in a phylogenetic (loose structure, some are clumped some are not...we are trying to be precise, but not perfectly so) blog. The biodiversity of Taiwan, through the lens of two expats as they tromp through the woods and the markets and the streets and the mountains of Taiwan. Wait for it...
