阵亡将士纪念日

sebire
 November 09, 2008, 07:45 PM posted in General Discussion

阵亡将士纪念日

陣亡將士紀念日

zhènwángjiàngshìjìniànrì

Remembrance Day

 

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barryb
 November 11, 2008, 03:40 PM

Was it for this the clay grew tall?
--O what made fatuous sunbeams toil
To break earth's sleep at all?

Wilfred Owen (18 March 1893 – 4 November 1918)

Killed in action just one week before peace was declared. The greatest war poet? Is he known in China?

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calkins
 November 26, 2008, 02:00 PM

Sebire, great photo!  I see it's a flickr photo...did you take it?  BTW, love your new avatar.

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sebire
 November 26, 2008, 03:17 PM

Hey Calkins, have you just moved to Taiwan?

This is indeed a Flickr photo, I really ought to have attributed it, it belongs to

http://www.flickr.com/photos/robnwatkins/2656802330/

I only wish I could take decent photos!

The avatar pic is just me being stupid :D Glad you liked it!

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RJ
 November 26, 2008, 11:23 PM

I second the avatar comment.

Glad to see you are back on line Calkins. I cant wait to see that pic from your balcony of Taipei 101 and the mountains.

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bababardwan
 November 27, 2008, 01:58 AM

Yeah,great to see you back Calkins.I had been wondering if you were travelling to Taiwan too.If so,hope it's been all you expected and more.Cheers mate :)

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calkins
 November 27, 2008, 11:57 AM

Sebire, stupid silly is always good!  And no worries about not attributing the photo, I just thought it might be yours;)

Yes, after almost a year and a half of planning, I have finally moved to Taipei.  It's taken a couple weeks to find an apartment and settle in, and I'm loving everything about it so far.

I will say this...it has been an extremely humbling experience from a language standpoint.  Doing things like finding an apartment, getting on the right bus and paying, going to the hospital (residency related), checking into hotels, etc., has kicked my Chinese-language-learning arse!!!

I have a lot of gratitude to give to CPod and all of the community - I've gone back to many lessons to aide my Chinese in the past 2 weeks.  My face is continually red here with the many mistakes I make.  But without CPod, I'd be completely clueless.  A thousand thanks to everyone!  I've missed my daily dose of CPod.

Any Taiwan poddies want to start a meetup?  Shilin night market perhaps?