Weekend Skate (Science Park)

Ollie the Bush

I've been trying to meet up with Taiwanese to skate more and more. It has been difficult with the language barrier and schedules, but I manage to skate with these guys the most. (Photo: Heel Flip)

Me - FS Flip

Me - Nose Manuel

wo wo WAHAHAHAAA!

Ninja Heel Flip Attempt

Up the Bench and over the gap - me - kickflip

Thanks to one of the guys for taking all the pictures with my camera (I did the processing)

Lugang Temple Tour

 Lugang is a port city in Taichung County, Taiwan. It is famous for some of its foods, its Dragon Boat Races and also its old temples. Marc took Jake, Brittany and I on a little tour here.

Many people come to the very old temples to worship. The town is full of gods. The men used to go out sailing and trading for goods while many of the wives stayed home to pray to the gods for their safety.

It almost brings me to tears watching as this father leaned over his son, holding his hands together, teaching him the proper form to worship the gods of Taiwan.

Many of their gods are surprisingly demonic like. The idols they worship or beautiful creatures but dark evil looking monsters, which they fear.

Similar to the Catholic church you can buy little spaces of lights for you dead ancestor. I'm not sure if this is to help them have a better after life or better chances of a good reincarnation.

Lugang is a very old town but over the years it has been expanding. The white part is where the land use to end but it has risen to the colored sections of the map on the left. I think it was like 5 meters every so many years.

Lugang is famous for its old brick streets, many pink hatted, Taiwanese and Chinese tourist visit. You will also see the tour guide carrying a flag to help keep anyone from getting lost. Funny thing is the Americans use tour guides less in foreign countries then Chinese use for a country that speaks the same language.

Giant Buddha statue sits over looking Lugang. You can actually walk right into the belly of Buddha (not as exciting as it sounds). On each floor is a different stage of Buddha's life.

There are 12 men sitting around Buddha

Pokemon Tower?

Lady selling giant Ostrich eggs on the way up to the giant Buddha.

Marc was kinda enough to get us some of this very gooey gel food stuff, which I have had many times and still am not use to the texture, before the ride home.

Sharing the Message for Chapel Time

1st Bible Club Spring Term

The Students dressing up to see who looks like the best disciple during our first Bible Club for the Term

Skyrim Hoarder: Riften Pollution

I began to get tired of the excitement from filling up my house with trash. But still amazed by Skyrim on how I can just leave the items on the floor and it would remember is location. I was exploring how well they did water currents carry items, in the lake of Riften one day. Then I thought, what if I could pollute this whole lake with trash.

As I did trash gathered up on shore over time, however everything that sank stayed in place. The currency are actually awful I realized some rivers currents will go one way and switch to the other way. Usually your items won't get carried down stream very far before runny against the shore all in the same place.

Sadly polluting your environment doesn't effect the fish population or even mutate them in anyway.

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There is a slight current underwater also, but it doesn't carry the items as well because they are heavy.

This was only the beginning to polluting my entire Skyrim Universe.

Idol Parade

Early in the morning the past 2 days I have been woken up by the temple down the road parading their idols and shooting off fireworks. Wondering what all the noise was I looked out my balcony window almost having my face hit by the fireworks launching up from below (at least that's what it felt like).

Many mornings while here in Taiwan, I am awoken to the temples around the area playing strange music loudly and shooting off fireworks to worship their gods.

Friend Day - The End of the Term

SYME Family's mixed with students from other terms

The last day of the first SYME 2012 term is now over. I had an awesome time with the students. They came from many different stages in their life. We had a husband, wife, and their daughter attend together for one month, then the husband continued the second month as the daughter and wife had to go back to other things. One day in one of my classes we I spent the day just answering a bunch of question my students had about the Bible. We discussed many things. Instead of just telling them what I thought the right answers were, I tried to give the references in the Bible that they could then go look at and read for themselves. One girl was hearing voices in her head, after talking to here about it multiple times, she wrote me and one other teacher a note that she no longer hears them anymore. God is doing great things here. Please continue to pray for the ministry.

Friend Day is the Saturday after SYME is over. The students invite their friends and family to come to see how their English has improved, check out the school, and to hear the gospel.