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Archive for 18/09/2009
T4 - a calmer, busy day!
18/09/2009 by paul.
Well this morning began nice and calm, and I decided to go for a walk around Taipei. I had hoped to get to the Taipei 101 building to find the English bookshop, but I cunningly managed to misread the scale on my map. Even though the 101 looks huge from outside the church, its actually 2 kms away!! One of the joys of going out on a walk on my own was popping into a convenience store and purchasing a bottle of coke - a little more refreshing than barley water stuff they tend to drink here! Anyway after lunch we went to a nursing home to visit an elderley church member. The experience was quite differently from my weekly chaplaincy placement in a nursing home in the UK. This place was enormous - with at least a thousand people living here. But despite the many differences there were many similarities. Some of the people were sat around playing the same sort of bingo, and the old lady we visited suffered from dementia like the guys at home in Appleton Lodge. Interestingly, again with the same experience as at home, ordinary conversation was very difficult, but singing hymns, saying readings and the Lord’s Prayer were not a problem, and brought joy and contentment.
After the nursing home visit, we went to the Taiwan Theological Seminary, just North of Taipei. The college has around 300 students who mostly live on campus. I met with some of the professors and talked about the possibility of me taking a couple of English speaking courses this semester. The view across Taipei from the college was breath-taking as were the grounds:
This evening we’re going for a night-time walk - it should be a little cooler than my earlier jaunt.
Tomorrow is a long day trip out into the Northern Coast countryside with the couples fellowship. Should be fun and pretty.
Cya
P
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The weather
18/09/2009 by paul.
So I don’t have to keep telling you what the weather is like, I’ve made a separate page all about. In the left-hand menu bar you’ll see an option ‘Weather in Taipei’. Alternatively just click here.
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