viernes, 14 de octubre de 2011

WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS AND DE-BENEFITS OF BEING A FOREIGNER, A "WAI GUO REN" HERE IN TAIWAN

Finally was my time to publish my article for Taiwan International Cooperation Alliance Newsletter (TICA Newsletter Vol. 28) as part of my ICDF scholarship. Now I want to share in this post my experience and thought about my topic assigned. Enjoy it!!:


Being a foreigner in Taiwan is one of the most challenging and amazing experiences I have ever lived. Three years ago because of my last job I traveled to Peru, a beautiful country in South America, things were interesting there, but that experience was not even close to what I have experienced in Taiwan.

Such an amazing island envelopedin a rich and totally different culture of what I am used to.
I mentioned Peru because it was a different country from Nicaragua, but it was similar at the same time, which means I still was in Latin America. People in certain ways behave the same, food is quite similar and the way we Latin American people interact is almost the same everywhere, of course with some interesting peculiarities. Taiwan on the other hand is a land of millenary cultures ....Read my full article here