It’s for real now. We’re going to Taiwan.
No matter how many times I say it, it doesn’t seem entirely real. I know we have jobs there, and that we’ll be on the ground in a couple of months, but the statement “we’re moving to Taiwan” carries about the same weight for me right now as “I just bought a bridge.” It’s very exciting, don’t get me wrong, and a little bit scary as well, but I’m having a hard time grasping the reality of it.
We’re supposed to be there no later than July 28th. The rain is preventing us so far from getting our house painted or having a garage sale, and the heating stove is more than a little in the way of my sanding the floor, but we’re making progress, and hopefully someone will want to buy our cute little two bedroom home. For sale, cheap!
Our contract is for one year, with the option of additional contracts at higher pay rates at the conclusion of that service. Whether we stay longer depends on how well the school determines we’ve done, and how well we like what we’re doing and where we are.
Where we are, incidentally, will be Chi Du, about 40 minutes by train from Taipei, and I believe we were told 20 minutes from a beach.
So here we go! If anyone needs anything they’ve seen in our possession, give a holler, more than likely if we haven’t earmarked it for someone or sold it, you can have it, at least for the time we’re gone.
Incidentally, since I haven’t done the three minutes’ research it would require, does anyone know if Taiwan uses the NTSC television standard?