Notes from a Faraway Place » Taichung http://erikwong.net Discoveries from the road, at home, in the media and around the web. Mon, 18 Jul 2011 10:26:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Taiwan http://erikwong.net/2009/12/29/taiwan/ http://erikwong.net/2009/12/29/taiwan/#comments Tue, 29 Dec 2009 08:21:36 +0000 Erik http://erikwong.net/?p=120 I’ve been really bad about keeping this site updated these past few months, but I’m gonna try and throw up a bunch of new galleries before the end of the year, starting with pictures from my trip to Taiwan back in September.

]]> http://erikwong.net/2009/12/29/taiwan/feed/ 0 My Friend Jean: Then & Now http://erikwong.net/2009/09/11/my-friend-jean-then-now/ http://erikwong.net/2009/09/11/my-friend-jean-then-now/#comments Sat, 12 Sep 2009 00:21:35 +0000 Erik http://erikwong.net/?p=108 In 2002, I visited New York City for the first time.  My friend Jean had moved out there a few years before that and was teaching at a public high school in Manhattan.  I stopped by her school one day and took this photo of her in her classroom.

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Today Jean is living in Taichung, Taiwan and just started her second year in a 2-year stint teaching at an American curriculum-based international school in the city.  I’ve been out here on a week-long visit and once again had the privilege of snapping a photo of Jean in her latest classroom, seven years after seeing her in New York.

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Photos of some of the students at her schools in NYC and Taichung:

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