I finished English teaching on Sunday. It’s been a good time this week, a free time, with lots of books and the last days in my house. I’ve been reading essays on literature by Milan Kundera, Matthew Arnold, Virginia Woolf, TS Eliot and Schiller.
No idea where I’m going to move to on Friday evening. Perhaps [...]
Entries from May 2007
May 30, 2007
A free time
May 23, 2007
I’m still alive
And well, I just don’t have much to post. I finish English teaching on Sunday night, 9pm. After that I’ve got a week to leave my house, and then a couple more weeks somewhere in Taiwan. Will write more soon.
Best wishes to you all.
Daniel
May 15, 2007
Syria
I’m going to Syria. I’m going to arrive there in middle or late June, and either start studying Arabic in Damascus when I arrive, or just find a quiet town (by the coast perhaps) to settle in for a few months and do a lot of writing.
It’s been a very difficult couple of weeks. [...]
May 11, 2007
Nearly ready to post
Sorry for the silence everyone. This has been a difficult week. Exhausted from making decisions about where to go, and exhausted from working. I think I have made a decision about where to live next – will tell you soon.
May 6, 2007
Tea picking in Yilan
Akai, the tea farmer that Qing and I met over Chinese New Year, allowed me to help him and his father finish the tea harvest on Saturday.
(First two photos by Qing)
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Daniel
